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The grandmother of abandoned three-year-old Qian Xun Xue has told how she burst into tears when she saw security footage of her bewildered granddaughter in a Melbourne train station.
Xiao Ping Liu was reunited with Qian Xun in an emotional meeting Auckland earlier this week after the girl's father Nia Yin Xue left her at the Southern Cross station on September 15 and fled to Los Angeles.
He was now being hunted as a murder suspect after the body of his wife, Qian Xun's mother An An Liu, was found in the boot of his car outside the family home four days later.
Mrs Liu has told Chinese TV she was shocked and saddened to see news footage of Qian Xun.
She said her granddaughter believed her murdered mother was asleep.
Qian Xun told her: "Mummy is asleep now. She got up and then went to sleep again," Mrs Liu told Chinese TV.
"Daddy left me at the train station. I don't know where he has gone."
Mrs Liu said the footage of Qian Xun at the rail station caused her and her family to burst out crying.
"I didn't think that the last time I saw my daughter in February this year would be the final goodbye. I am very, very sad."
She said her granddaughter grew anxious every time she left the room.
"She is worried that I just disappear at any moment and abandon her somewhere she didn't know," Ms Liu said.
Her granddaughter wanted to go back to China, where she has spent time in the past.
An An Liu's body was cremated in Auckland earlier this week after a small, private funeral service and her ashes will be taken back to China for another service.
- NZPA
