双语：“爱心妈妈”袁厉害称将不再收养孩子

　　Yuan Lihai, the controversial and unlicensed Chinese caretaker, said on Monday that she will never adopt homeless children again, Beijing Times reported.

　　Yuan made her return to the countryside yesterday morning, with the intention of taking her last adopted baby to a charity home in Kaifeng. Unfortunately however, her currently ill health did not allow her to do so。

　　Yuan Lihai, a woman from Lankao County, Henan Province, has been raising homeless children, orphans and abandoned babies with birth defects, at her own expense for 20-odd years. In total, she adopted over 100 homeless children over the past two decades, making her known as "Foster Mother" in her area。

　　On the morning of Jan. 4, 2013, disaster struck. A fire broke out in Yuan"s two-story home while she was taking some of the older children to school. Seven lives, six young children and one 20-year-old, were lost in the fire。

　　Yuan started having breathing difficulties and heart irregularities late Saturday night and was rushed to hospital. When she woke up, she remembered there was yet another child.。.

　　Her relatives have stated that one month ago, Yuan adopted a newborn baby and asked an elderly woman to look after it, with Yuan herself visiting from time to time. After the fire, she had no time to further deal with the adotpion and felt like she no longer had the ability to raise the child. Subsequently, Yuan intended to place the baby in a charity home。

　　Yuan was in low spirits on Monday morning when she took the baby to a local hospital in her area and asked to see her other adopted children. She broke down in tears as she found out all the children had been taken away, and said it felt as if "you've taken away my heart." Yuan's elder son then decided to drive her and the baby to the Kaifeng home, but he had to turn around halfway. Given Yuan's current physical and mental condition, she may very well have fainted when actually faced with the children. Around 3 p.m. that same afternoon, an unknown middle-aged woman took the baby to Kaifeng instead。

　　Yuan said that in the past few years, whenever children would be delivered to her doorstep, she simply had to take them in; otherwise she would not be able to live with herself. Yet in recent years, her health had been deteriorating and she realized she had her limits. Consequently, when government officials asked her to transfer her children to a charity home, she gave up ten of the younger ones. Nevertheless, she refused to let go of the older ones for the time being. But then tragedy fell upon her home。

　　Yuan said she has nothing left now, and is going to return her subsistence allowance to the government. "I don't have a nickel in the bank. The children are all gone, so that allowance is now useless," she said. When asked if she were to continue to adopt, she was momentarily dazed by the question and said, "It's a human life, do you want me watch that die?"

　　Not long after, however, she added she would never adopt children again. Even if someone leaves a child on her doorstep, she intends to call the police and let them handle it。

　　Yuan's charity actions have sparked a national debate on whether or not her actions should be considered good deeds or illegal ones. Online rumors also read that Yuan might be cheating the government out of subsistence allowance by raising orphans in her own house. What's even worse, she may have been unlawfully profiting from under-the-table adoption deals。

　　Yuan has so far categorically denied all speculations。

　　昨天一早，袁厉害拖着病体到乡下接回了自己收养的最后一名婴儿，她原本想亲自将孩子送往开封福利院，因身体原因最终由他人代劳。袁厉害流着泪说，自己现在什么都没有了，以后要把低保也还给政府，不再收养孩子。

　　主动送弃婴到福利院

　　前天夜间，半昏迷的袁厉害逐渐恢复清醒，11点左右，她喝了一碗粥，很晚才入睡。昨天一早，袁厉害突然从病房中消失了。她的亲友介绍，一个多月前，袁厉害曾经收养了一名刚出生的婴儿，寄养在乡下的一个老太太家中，她会不定期前往照看。由于大火后事情应接不暇，一直没来得及处理。“现在她觉得自己没能力养了，就想主动送到福利院去。”

　　上午10点，袁厉害抱着婴儿回到了县人民医院，孩子被裹得很严实，一直在睡觉。袁厉害的精神状态很差，一直强烈要求到福利院去看看其他的孩子。她说自己很想他们，孩子们被接走了，“就像掏我的心一样”。说着说着，她就流下泪来。听说袁厉害要去开封看孩子，她的一位邻居塞了50元钱给她，要她保重身体。四周的邻居朋友们看到这一幕，都纷纷叹气，“厉害是个好人！”

　　袁厉害的大儿子杜鹏开着车往开封方向开去，但最终又半途折回了医院。身边的人介绍，因为病情还不稳定，主要是害怕袁厉害到福利院情绪过于激动，再次发生昏厥情况。一直到下午3点左右，一位中年妇女才将婴儿送到了开封市社会福利院。

　　称以后不再收养孩子

　　18名养子女，7死1伤，剩下的10个都被送进了福利院。前天夜间，说到自己的孩子们，嘴唇仍惨白的袁厉害刚一醒来，便激动不可自抑，“不管是不是残疾，他们都和我亲生的一样！”她一再问起孩子们在福利院的情况，说自己心里就只是想着去看看孩子。看到孩子们的照片，她情绪缓和了不少。

　　袁厉害说，孩子们扔在了门口，她如果不收，良心上过不去。近几年来，她的身体也不好，患有多种疾病，她知道自己的能力有限，民政部门来劝自己将孩子送往福利院后，她将10个年纪小的给了福利院，但是大孩子实在是舍不得，就想着缓缓再给。亲属们提到，在此次大火中遇难的年纪最大的扎根，患有严重的疾病，不久前刚刚为他做了手术，花了七八千元。众人听着，都唏嘘不已。

　　袁厉害说，现在自己什么都没有了，打算自己夫妇的低保也不要了，全部还给政府。“我没有一分钱存款，孩子没了，低保留着也没啥用。”问到以后是否还收养孩子，袁厉害愣了一下说：“总是一条活命，难道让我看着他死？”但她随后又补充道，以后再也不收养孩子了。如果有人送上门来，她就报警，让警察带走。