See What This Woman Did To Get A Divorce

A mother took extreme measures when she took her two-year old daughter, climbed outside her hotel room on the 13th floor and stayed on the window ledge threatening to jump if she did not get a divorce from her husband.

The Mirror reports:

A Chinese woman balanced on the window ledge of a high-rise building with her two-year-old daughter threatening to jump unless she was granted a instant divorce from her husband.

The woman, who was not named, climbed outside of the room on the 13th floor of the hotel and was seen with her child perched on a narrow ledge 60 metres from the ground.

Shocked onlookers watched as she dangled the toddler perilously by one arm over the edge, threatening to kill both herself and her daughter unless her case was heard immediately.

In tears, she told rescuers that her husband was addicted to gambling and would often beat her and said she was not prepared to stay with him any longer or leave her daughter in his care.

Rescuers arrived underneath the hotel in Guilin, in south China’s Guangxi region, and set up an inflatable mattress on the ground while others headed up to the 13th storey to negotiate with the woman.

Police called the woman’s husband to the hotel and pleaded for his wife to come back inside saying they would deal with the matter in court.

But the resolute woman would not budge, and also would not hand over her daughter, unless she was granted a divorce right there on the edge of the building.

Authorities eventually brought to the scene an official from the civil affairs bureau who had both husband and wife sign official divorce papers, finally ending the three-hour stand-off.