Th child's drawing showing what appears to be blood-soaked walls was at the heart of a horror court case which heard how a five-year-old girl was tortured to death by her parents.
The chilling nursery school sketch - seen as a cry for help - shows an adult standing in a house with red stains on the ceiling as well as "blood" running down the walls and pooling on the floor.
Tragic Chen Ruilin's drawing was shown as a court heard her abuse included being thrown into the air so her head smashed on the ceiling - leaving injuries discovered when she was hospitalised one last time before she died.
It was just one of the exhibits made available during a month of heartbreaking testimony from family members, teachers and doctors into the shocking abuse suffered by the young victim at the family home.
When she finally died, doctors in Hong Kong found she had more than 130 new and historic wounds on her tiny body raising questions as to why the abuse had not been spotted by the authorities earlier.
She had also suffered so many years of other horror abuse that left her so physically weak she was unable to fight off a bacterial infection.
Father Chen Haiping, 29, and stepmother Huang Xiaotong, 30, were found guilty of murdering the five-year-old after a month-long tria..
The court heard how the defendants continually beat and starved the little girl in the run up to her death in January 2018.
The case made headlines after the girl was taken to hospital and found to have so many injuries, many of which appear to have been inflicted with a cane or pair of scissors.
The girl died in hospital shortly after arriving and an autopsy showed that she died of a bacterial infection that her immune system could not handle due to years of physical abuse.
The victim's brother, eight, also allegedly suffered abuse and is now being cared for by his paternal grandmother.
The children's other grandmother, 56, who lived with the family, was also found guilty of two counts of child cruelty.
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