Alternative Healer Charged with Manslaughter over UK 'Slapping Therapy' Death
Hongchi Xiao, founder of the Pailala Institute, faces charges following the 2016 death of Danielle Carr-Gomm, who attended his workshop seeking alternative treatment for her diabetes.
- Hongchi Xiao, a California-based alternative healer, has been charged with manslaughter by gross negligence over the death of Danielle Carr-Gomm, a 71-year-old woman who died in 2016 at one of his 'slapping therapy' workshops in the UK.
- Carr-Gomm attended the workshop in hopes of finding an alternative treatment for her Type 1 diabetes, as she had a fear of needles and struggled to inject insulin.
- The therapy, known as paida lajin, involves patients being slapped or slapping themselves repeatedly to supposedly draw out blood toxins. The practice has been criticized as having no scientific basis.
- Xiao, originally from China, is the founder of the Pailala Institute in California and has led workshops on the practice around the world.
- Xiao was extradited from Australia to the UK and is due to appear in court in Salisbury, southwest England.
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