Media must not hold 'kangaroo courts'

The death of Haobo, a two-month-old baby, in Changchun, Jilin province, is an enormous tragedy for his family as well as the entire society.

On Monday, it was reported that the baby had gone missing along with the car, a Toyota RAV4, that his father surnamed Xu had left him in with the key in the ignition when he went inside the supermarket where he worked for a few minutes.

Xu called the local radio station and police both for help. Local media outlets and social media messages mobilized thousands of the city's taxi drivers and residents to join about 3,500 police officers in the search for the baby. On Tuesday evening, Zhou Xijun, 48, surrendered to police saying he had strangled the baby and buried the body in snow near a countryside road after stealing the car.