CHINA — A man who rescued a girl about to fall off the edge of an escalator after she became trapped is being accused of ‘touching the girl’s bottom’.

The man, surnamed Ding, was at a Shanghai shopping centre last Sunday when he saw a girl, about five years old, holding onto the outside edge of a moving escalator.

The girl became stuck in a gap between the handrail and a pane of glass and was left dangling at a considerable height above the floor below unable to get off.

Seeing the girl on the verge of falling, Ding helped pull her to safety. While lifting the girl over the edge of the escalator he placed one hand on the back of her upper legs and lower buttocks to support her weight and held her arm with his other hand as he lifted her to safety.

After CCTV footage of the incident circulated on social media, some people questioned his actions and accused him of “touching the girl’s bottom”.

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Original uploaded October 12 2022