2026 Jieyang dog abuse case

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On 28 June 2026 in Pingpu Village (坪埔村), Xinheng Town, Jiedong District (揭东区新亨镇), Jieyang (揭阳), Guangdong, China, five boys under the age of 14 killed a stray dog — widely referred to as Wang Wang (旺旺) — and her three puppies, beating the puppies with spiked poles to death, stabbing them, poking the mother dog's eye out and burning her to death. The boys filmed the abuse and laughed for the entire time, and the footage spread rapidly on Chinese social media and later on overseas platforms, provoking widespread public outrage. Because all five were below China's age of criminal responsibility, they were not criminally charged; on 30 June 2026 the Xinheng Town government announced that they had been sent to a specialized school for corrective education. The perceived leniency of the outcome, together with the absence of a national animal-protection law in China, prompted renewed calls for legislation against animal cruelty and drew reactions in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and internationally.

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