No charges to be filed in toddler attack(2)

The local education bureau in Changshou district, where the incident occurred, will conduct a review of how children's mental health issues are handled, according to the local publicity office. But no detailed information is available at this time, according to Wang Jing, spokesman for Changshou district's publicity office.

The sequence of events provided by the police shows that the 10-year-old girl, surnamed Li, went home from school at 4:10 pm on Nov 25, the same time that Li Xinyuan's grandmother took the boy for a walk.

They met at the elevator of their residential building. The girl entered the elevator as the grandmother was pulling out a baby stroller. The boy remained inside.

When the grandmother turned back to take the boy, the elevator door was closing and the girl was picking him up.

Footage from a security camera shows the girl attacking the boy repeatedly on the ride from the first to the 25th floor of the building, where she lives with her parents.

Police also released the girl's statement. She told investigators that she took the boy home and beat him on the sofa in the living room. Then she took him to the balcony to play, but the boy fell over the rail.

According to the police, the grandmother, surnamed Wu, saw the elevator stop on the 25th floor and hurried to retrieve her grandson. She met the girl walking out of the apartment and asked where the boy was. The girl lied that he had been taken by someone else, according to the police.

The girl then rode the elevator with Wu, pretending to search.

The pair separated when they reached the first floor, but the girl went straight to the bush where the boy had fallen and moved him to a spot 7 or 8 meters away.

She then went home, while Wu went to the community security office asking for surveillance footage.

The case has aroused public concerns. Song Yanhui, a faculty member at the China Youth University for Political Sciences who specializes in adolescent violence, said that she was shocked when she read the news about the attack.

But she said it was too early to analyze the girl's mental condition and motivation because information is limited.