On the afternoon of the 25th, a boy was seen wandering alone in the square behind the ticket hall at Yan'an train station. This scene caught the attention of the police officers at the station's police station. After questioning, the police learned that the boy, referred to as Xiao Yu (a pseudonym), was 14 years old and in the first year of junior high school. His parents had been working in Dongguan, Guangdong for many years, while he lived with his grandmother in Jiangxi. In the evening of November 3rd this year, Xiao Yu met an online "girlfriend" she had known for three months, who invited her to Yan'an and promised to help her make money. In late December, unable to resist the repeated persuasion from her online friend, Xiao Yu secretly left for Yan'an without telling her grandmother.
Upon arriving in Yan'an, the 500 yuan she had brought with her was completely swindled by her "boyfriend," and his phone remained off, making it impossible to contact him.
"The child said that her online friend was in his twenties, and apart from knowing his phone number, she knew nothing else about him. How could such a young child think of traveling so far to meet an online friend? She is truly too naive," said Zhou Yue, a female police officer at the police station. Xiao Yu's experience was heart-wrenching; if she hadn't been discovered by the police, no one knows how long she would have wandered on the streets or what worse misfortune might have befallen her.
Xi'an News Network - Xi'an Evening Post Yan'an edition (Reporters Zhou Peng and Lei Jiao) A 14-year-old girl secretly traveled from Jiangxi to Yan'an, over a thousand miles away, to meet an online friend. Unexpectedly, after being scammed out of her 500 yuan, she ended up wandering the streets. Local police discovered her and promptly contacted her family in Guangdong, eventually reuniting her with them.
"When the police first encountered this child, she was very dirty and wouldn't speak, only crying continuously. Unable to communicate further, the police brought her to the station and asked me to talk to her. I later took her to bathe, changed her clothes, and then fed her a meal. It was during the meal that she finally told me her story," Zhou Yue told reporters. After being scammed out of all her money, Xiao Yu washed dishes at small restaurants during the day to get meals and spent her nights sleeping on the streets. Recently, due to the cold weather, she had been staying in the room of an ATM machine. According to Xiao Yu, since she had no relatives or acquaintances in Yan'an, she had already spent nearly a week sleeping on the streets. Additionally, fearing her family's scolding, she dared not contact them.
After understanding the detailed situation, the police immediately contacted Xiao Yu's father. Her father had been unaware of Xiao Yu's disappearance and did not know where to look, causing great worry within the family. On the evening of December 26th, Xiao Yu's father rushed from Guangdong to Yan'an. At the train station police station, upon seeing his daughter whom he hadn't seen for nearly ten days, he tightly hugged her. "Foolish child, don't run away again. If it weren't for the police uncles and aunts, how could your father find you?" Subsequently, Xiao Yu's father held the police's hands and said: "Thank you so much. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know when I could see my child again."
Due to fear of being scolded, Xiao Yu had not dared to contact her family.
From Jiangxi to Shaanxi to meet an online friend.