The suicide of the teen got everybody’s attention, and he has a bright future ahead of him too! From the Newspapers, translated…
Because two of the “adolescents on abandoned grounds” she’d helped committed suicide respectively, the female pastor, Hus yesterday went onto the streets to protest, with a surgical mask on her face, as her way of silently protesting, hoped that the government can pay more attention to the issues of children and teens’ suicides.
The youths on abandoned grounds are the teens with families, but in reality, their lives lacked the supports they’d needed from their loved ones, these kids are living on abandoned ruins; they came from close to 30,000 high-risk families noted by the government.
Awhile ago, the sixteen-year-old “Han” hung himself to death at a basketball court out of the blue. He was born into poverty, the youngest of six children, although he was “raised by his older siblings”, “Han” still worked really hard, studied in night school and worked during the daytime, at the start of the year, he’d told Hsu, that he’s about to, strike out on his own, but he’d left this world, in extreme measures, that’s treated him wrong, and after his suicide, his family found his phone, and finally realized just how lonely and desperate for the love he couldn’t get.
Another child, “Dien”, his mother left when he was younger, and his father died, his younger sister was taken by his aunt, he’d lived on his own, but because something was wrong with his health conditions, he’d chosen, to take his own life.
Hsu had worked in the field of counseling troubled teens for thirty years, and she was heartbroken over these two young men’s suicides, “They both worked really hard, entered into the counseling programs, worked hard, but they’re both, really lonely, and, they just couldn’t, get themselves from under the trials of their lives.”
Hsu said, for children who didn’t have family to love them, the government must lend an immediate helping hand, a lot of these teens on the borderlines like them, they’re now, labeled as “teens on deserted grounds”, they’re very lonely, couldn’t get the cares and concerns they’d needed to thrive and live off of; and there’s not enough facilities to place them in, there’s no categorizations either, and there needed to be criminal records, in order for the government to step in and help them out.
She believed, that these teens on deserted grounds needed most to be placed in a safe home, but the best way is to group them in threes and fives, and NOT put them all together, disregarding the levels of their crimes, if the teens were placed all together in a home, then, those with a harder criminal history may pick on someone who didn’t commit such a serious crime as they’d done.
“If the society is willing to help out, then, these teens on deserted grounds will have a chance to turn their live around.” Hsu said, there was a classic case of the young man, “Kai” who’d stolen a bag of potato chips and was sent to the police, and because the law only keeps these delinquents until eighteen, she’d taken him in, helped him find a stable job, helped him get rid of his bad habits, and the young man saved up for his very first bucket of gold.
And so, given the chance, these youths CAN change, it’s just, that the world is way too cruel, way too hard, and because these young people, once they are sent to the courts, they’re labeled as bad, and, they can’t, get out from that red mark on their back, which is why a lot of these teenage criminals don’t make it.