Shocking! Chinese man is kept in a cage for more than 40 years by his mother (Photos)

Peng Weiqing is 48 and has been in the cage in his mother's home since the age of six. He was locked up in a cage when he suffered brain damage from a high fever when he was aged 6. He then begun suffering severe epilectic fits at the age of six.
And while it may seem like an incredibly cruel way to treat your only son, Peng Waimei, says that she did it to protect Weiqing.
Waimei and her late husband locked their son away and have fed him through the bars ever since after a series of health problems as a child.

 

Fearing that he would hurt himself and unable to afford medical treatment, Waimei's husband built a series of cages that got larger as Weiqing grew.
 According to Waimei: 

'He can't control himself.

 

'When he was young, quite often he would cut himself with a knife and glass debris.

'Even when walking, he could suddenly fall down and hit his face and make it bleed.

'He must know me, although he may not know the meaning of "mother". He is my 48-year-old child.'

With Weiqing's father now dead and his mother aged 80, Waimei fears for her son when she dies and hopes to find someone to take care of him as she is making appeals for someone to help look after him after she dies.

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