Shanghai-Wuhan Train Marshal Tries to Drug and Harass Female Passenger

Shanghai-Wuhan Train Marshal Tries to Drug and Harass Female Passenger
Apr 14, 2016 By eChinacities.com

Editor's Note: Amidst a series of widely reported stories of mishandled abuse cases against women, a female passenger was allegedly drugged and harassed by a train Marshall en route to Wuhan from Shanghai and has had trouble seeking justice. This report comes after the fallout of the viral story of a female guest at a Home Inns Group hotel finding little support from police and the hotel company after she was attacked by a stranger in the halls of the hotel until she posted a video of the attack on Weibo. Citizens are becoming increasingly outraged by the police's incompetence/disinterest in handling cases relating to violence against women. The translated article reports on the story.

A family train trip turned into a nightmare for a young woman after she was drugged by a train marshal and asked if she wanted to watch porn on his phone.

Ms. Deng was traveling with her mother by train from Shanghai to Wuhan on Monday afternoon. As the train pulled out of the station, the 28 year old woman realized that her mother’s cell phone had run out of battery. She took her mother’s phone and her own phone and got up to look for an open plug.

Harassed by a Marshal
Deng was approached by a train marshal, who told her that he had a plug she could use to charge her phones. She followed him to the marshal’s lounge, where they were the only two present.

The marshal began to make small talk with her. He asked her if she was a college student, and a number of other questions. He offered her a drink and she declined. He insisted, saying that he had boiled, pure water and that the water in the train cars was not the same. The marshal took a bottle of water and began making tea. When it was ready, Tang drank a cup.

Then, the marshal started playing what seemed to be porn on his phone, asking her if she wanted to watch. Deng refused. He told her that it was porn and asked her again if she wanted to watch.

Mother Jumps into Action
Deng stood up quickly and walked back to her seat. Walking through two compartments, she began to feel dizzy. She started to sweat, her heartbeat sped up and she began to tremble.

Tang suspected that she had been drugged and immediately told her mother what had happened. Her mother, Ms. Pan, immediately went to the marshal’s lounge and grabbed the two phones and the cup her daughter had used.

Pan returned to her seat, called the police, and contacted the conductor. The conductor arranged a private lounge for Pan and Tang for the rest of the trip.

Hospitals Incompetent?
When the train arrived in Wuhan at 10 in the evening, an officer from Wuhan Railway PSB met it at the station. The officer ordered Deng, Pan, and the train marshal to hand over their phones for inspection. Pan and Deng were taken to Wuhan #11 Hospital for examination, but the hospital staff said they were unable to run the relevant tests on Tang. The women were then taken to Wuhan Union Hospital but the doctor on duty was also unable to perform the necessary tests.

Deng’s father Mr. Deng had arrived by this point. Mr. Deng and the police officers investigated the marshal’s phone and found that it did indeed have pornographic videos on it. Mr. Deng believed that this along with Deng’s blood and urine samples was enough evidence, but the police disagreed. The two sides reached a stalemate.

The two sides finally agreed to package the marshal’s phone and Deng’s cup as evidence. Deng was also able to given a blood and urine sample at the hospital. One was given to the police, and the other was kept by the family.

Police told the press that they cannot confirm that there was a pornographic video on the phone. However, police did confirm that one of the parties involved in the incident was a train marshal and has been detained by police.

Source: QQ News

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Vyborg

Deng, Tang, Deng Deng Tang... the names of the parties involved have been changed for reasons of privacy, except the name of the marshal.

Apr 14, 2016 17:37 Report Abuse

Samsara

A LOT of Chinese women I know have been harassed or molested by men on trains, buses or in metro stations. But Chinese girls are taught to be silent and ashamed about these things, and that police won't help them, so the horrifying scale of the phenomenon (like domestic violence in China) never comes to light. When one of my friends was 16, she was followed around a train station for two hours, in an increasing state of panic, by a man who was trying to get into the blanket she was wrapped in. Like the recent HomeInn incident, no one helped her. --- Where is Delphine to remind us how safe China is?

Apr 14, 2016 12:56 Report Abuse

RandomGuy

Violence against women in China is HUGE and rarely reported to the police because they won't take it seriously anyway. Many of my female friends have experienced it in a form or another, be it from their (ex-)boyfriends or complete strangers, from mental harassment to physical violence, and there is nothing they can do about it. There is a truly heinous feeling toward women in Chinese culture, my guess this is linked with the fact that Chinese men get offended by female nudity, Chinese men can't appreciate women for who they are, I always hear local men calling women "ugly" while they themselves are not the most attractive guys around. I can't quite explain it, but Chinese men don't like 'real' women, they have a distorted vision of beauty and hate the idea of women not being dependent on them.

Apr 14, 2016 23:17 Report Abuse

Englteachted

Also their inadequacy with women , they use it as a source to hate women. Chinese men should be forced to live lonely lives except with each other.

Apr 15, 2016 07:14 Report Abuse

Englteachted

Why wasn't the story about that attack at the hotel reported here? Posting BS articles hating on foreign brands takes precedent?

Apr 14, 2016 12:23 Report Abuse