We’ve all been on a plane with a crying infant before, right?

The screeching noise may drive you insane, yet compassion for this little individual, who had no option but to hurtle 500 miles per hour through the sky in a big chunk of metal, urges you to calm down.

However, not everyone possesses such humility; on airlines across the United States, you may hear the occasional jerk asking the parents to ‘shut that kid up’ or anything along those lines—which is terrible—but two women in China appear to have taken things to a new level.

On August 24, the event occurred on a Juneyao Airlines flight that flew directly from Guiyang to Shanghai, a journey of little over two hours.

A grandma allegedly consented to let two strangers lock her baby granddaughter in an aircraft lavatory to ‘teach her’.

It only became viral because one of the strangers, Gou Tingting, recorded the event on her phone as it happened and shared it on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok.

The footage shows her carrying the small child, who local media reports is as young as one, into the aircraft bathroom before shutting her in and reportedly telling her she can only exit if she stops sobbing.
Platform users quickly labeled her a ‘bully’, defending the toddler.

On the Chinese social media network Weibo, one person stated, “We should be thinking about how public spaces can better accept and accommodate young children.”

Another wrote, “Children cannot control their emotions when they are one or two years old.” What is wrong with crying? Didn’t you weep when you were young?

So, what was the woman’s reason for doing this?

“I just wanted to calm the child down and let everyone rest,” she said on her now-private Douyin account.

She also stated that she ‘prefers to take action rather than remain a bystander’.

Juneyao Airlines released a statement claiming that the small girl’s grandmother consented to the strangers locking her in a restroom.