Poor shoplifter reveals loopholes in social welfare

POLICE OFFICERS in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, reportedly caught a woman who stole a chicken leg and a small bag of rice from a local supermarket on Tuesday. They found out that the woman wanted to meet her sick child's wish for a chicken leg, but could not afford to buy one. The police gave her some money and asked others to donate, but only better social welfare can really help poor people like her, comments China Youth Daily:

Many people said they were astonished, because they could not imagine this happening today. Yet the social gap is so wide that many children are so well-fed they are overweight, while other children cannot even get enough food.

In this case, the mother just wanted to fulfill her daughter's wish because the child was ill. It reveals the huge loopholes in the social welfare system, which fails to protect the most vulnerable in society.