Wu Yuanhong (42), was shown sitting on blankets in the narrow enclosure, his feet shackled with a heavy chain and wearing only a T-shirt and his underwear. <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/may/2805health.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 740px;" /> Pic/AFP He was diagnosed as a schizophrenic at the age of 15 and in 2001 he beat a 13-year-old to death. Judicial authorities in Jiangxi province released him a year later as his illness meant he was not legally responsible for his actions, it said. &ldquo;My son may be insane, and beat someone to death, but he&rsquo;s still my son. To use my own hands to place him in a cage was very hard to take, like being stabbed with a knife,&rdquo; Wu&rsquo;s mother was quoted as saying. Wang gives her son three meals a day, placing a cloth over the cage and providing a pan when he needs the toilet.u00a0&ldquo;Every time I delivered food, I would sit at his cage and cry,&rdquo; she said. u00a0

A mentally ill Chinese man has been kept in a cage for more than a decade by his family after he beat a child to death, media reported Monday.

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