Determined to escape the correctional facility where his mother put him to cure his internet addiction, a 14-year-old Chinese boy ate pencil lead.

Chen Wi (pseudonym), from Wuhan city in Hubei Province, spent most of his days playing online games. So obsessive were his habits that his mother decided he was addicted to the internet and sent him to a correctional facility to cure him of it. After his mother called the facility and explained Chen’s situation, two big men promptly came  to take him away and escort him to the facility.

But it wasn’t long before the pressure of facility life began weighing down on Chen Wi, and after he witnessed an instructor beating a patient, he decided that his only way out of this nightmare was through death. Read More