A Chinese expert claims the horrific hot coffee attack on a nine-month-old baby by a Chinese man follows a trend of similar attacks in the country.
Random “abhorrent” attacks on children are so common in China that they have a name that translates as “revenge on society,” according to Will Sterzel, a prominent critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Mr Sterzel, who lived in China for 14 years but left for the US when the CCP expressed its displeasure over his YouTube videos of local life, said he could explain why the man poured coffee on the baby boy in Brisbane.
The man, whom police have not named, fled back to mainland China after pouring boiling coffee on Luka, who was in a park with his mother on August 27.
“When his last visa application was rejected, he did what so many in China do: lash out and take revenge on society by attacking a child,” Sterzela said.
“He even told his friend he wanted to get revenge on white people.”
Mr Sterzel said such attacks on children have long been happening in China and mentioned two this year, plus a Chinese man who attacked schoolchildren with a knife in Zurich in early October.
According to Mr. Sterzel, the phenomenon reflects a deep-seated impotent anger at the brutal nature of Chinese living conditions under the ruling Communist Party.
YouTube China commentator Will Sterzel, who posts under the name SerpentZa, said he could explain why the Chinese man poured a thermos of boiling coffee over a baby in Brisbane
“What it all comes down to is injustice,” Sterzel claimed.
He said that while most countries have mechanisms in place to help people in adversity, such as police and other authorities, government welfare, mental health services and charities, this did not in fact exist in China.
“If you’re unlucky, the government won’t help you in China, there are no social programs and if your family won’t keep you afloat, you’re done for,” Mr. Sterzel said.
“There are simply no mental health facilities or systems that can address mental health.
“So when people panic and are at their wits’ end, they have no recourse, they cannot blame the government, they cannot strike, protest, petition or take action.
‘They have nowhere to turn and so they selfishly lash out at society trying to do as much damage as possible. In China, children are the most precious and important part of society.’
The Chinese man accused of pouring the hot coffee on baby Luka has fled Australia
Mr. Sterzel explained that in Chinese society without a social safety net, young couples were encouraged or forced to marry and have children young, leaving grandparents in childcare and doing household chores as “retirement.”
He said raising a child in China was also very expensive.
“The future of the entire family depends on the child getting a good job,” Sterzel said.
“So by attacking and killing young children, these disgruntled cowards are causing enormous damage to society and disrupting the plans and livelihoods of several generations.
“The grandparents can no longer retire, the lives of the parents are being destroyed and China’s already shrinking demographics are shrinking.
“They have caused maximum damage to society.”
Luka, now 10 months old, suffered severe burns to his chest, neck and face and required multiple surgeries
Mr. Sterzel emphasized that attacks on “revenge on society” are not a cultural tradition because they were not seen in other countries with Chinese majority populations, such as Taiwan and Singapore, but came directly from the bleak life in China.
“This is a problem that continues to grow in China and is unfortunately exported abroad,” Mr. Sterzel said.
Luka, who is now 10 months old, underwent multiple surgeries at Queensland Children’s Hospital after suffering severe burns to his chest, neck and face.
Chinese media reported that the suspect who fled Australia had entered and left Australia many times since 2019 – initially using a working holiday visa before later switching to a student visa.
During that time he lived in various places on the east coast of Australia and worked in a meat processing plant.
But when his last visa application was rejected, the man’s frustration is said to have erupted during the coffee attack, Chinese media also report.
“Finally he cooled his anger and…” [allegedly] hurt a baby before leaving Australia,” China’s New Tang Dynasty Television reported.
The man reportedly has “a brain problem,” according to a colleague who posted on a Chinese social media platform.
“On social media ‘Little Red Book’, a Chinese person in Australia who claimed to know him, broke the news on social media that this man has always been strange and difficult to deal with,” NTD Television added.
‘He has been working in a meat factory for a long time with a study permit. Later, the meat factory did not require a study permit.’
The TV station claimed the man was ‘probably’ [attacked Luka] to take revenge on the whites before running away’.