Man in southern China recruits stand-in to impersonate dead son to elderly grandmother
For years, grandma was told that boy was being treated in the US when in fact he died in 2009. Then this year, she asked to see him...
A father in southern China has recruited and trained a young man to act as his deceased son to meet the boy’s 89-year-old grandmother, who was never told of his death, state news agency Xinhua reports.
Huang Xiaoyong, father of Huang Ke who died of muscular dystrophy in 2009, didn’t tell his mother that he had died for fear that she would be too distressed by the news.
But earlier this year, the old woman who is losing her vision and hearing asked to see her grandson after Huang told her that he was recovering and could stand up, according to the report.
To continue the lie, Huang searched for a volunteer to impersonate his son with the help of local media.
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Wang specified that the person had to be about 25 to 28 years old, 1.7m tall and weighed about 55kg.
