Taipei, March 30 (CNA) The family of "Little Light Bulb" said Wednesday that they are holding a visitation at a funeral home in Taipei for the public to pay their respects to the 4-year-old child, who was killed in a gruesome knife attack in Taipei Monday.
The visitation room is decorated with photos of the girl, flowers, pink drapes, her favorite carrot-shaped pillow and a Winnie-the-Pooh balloon that represents her favorite character.
"Little Light Bulb believed in the beauty of the world all her life ... She came into the world with love and I hope she will leave with love," the girl's mother Claire Wang said in a statement.
"People can express their grief, their emotions, and think about her in this room, but I really hope there will be no criticisms, no hate, no anger," Wang said. "I really hope that at the very end, her heart was filled only with beautiful memories of the world."
The Lungyen Group funeral service said the girl's mother had decided to move the tributes left at the crime scene to the funeral home, so that residents of the area would not be inconvenienced.
The tributes placed at the crime scene in Taipei's Neihu District included flowers, dolls, candies and cards, which stretched 20 meters along the street as of Wednesday afternoon.
The family said all of it was being moved to Lungyen funeral home at No. 166, Minquan East Road, Section 2, in Taipei.
Speaking to the media Wednesday, Wang said she was moved by the public's display of love and care and that she had received many heartwarming cards.
She asked the public, however, not to donate money or goods to her family, but rather to assist the many people in society in need of such help.
Earlier in the day, Wang said in a Facebook post that people should not try to exploit her daughter's death for their own ends.
She said she had received many invitations to attend a pro-death penalty rally "in support of Little Light Bulb."
"Even I, who went through nine months of pregnancy and breastfed her for a year, cannot speak for her," Wang wrote. "May I ask, who are you to do so?"
She clarified, however, that her comments were not directed at the organizers of the rally, as they had not mentioned her daughter's name.
Her daughter's name was added by other people who forwarded the messages, Wang said.
The apparent random attack on the child has renewed the debate over the death penalty in Taiwan, but Wang has said repeatedly that she does not wish to comment publicly on the issue at this time.
The attack occurred Monday when the mother and daughter were on their way to a metro station in Taipei's Neihu District to meet the girl's grandfather and two of her siblings.
A man, later identified as 33-year-old Wang Ching-yu (王景玉), grabbed the child from behind and beheaded her with a cleaver.
(By Christie Chen and Yu Kai-hsiang)
ENDITEM/pc
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rsscna/EngNews/~3/txvs50IVJ7o/201603300032.aspx
