A court in north China's Hebei Province officially accepted a compensation lawsuit filed by a tainted milk victim Wednesday.

The Xinhua District Court in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, accepted the lawsuit by a parent from Beijing, confirmed Wang Wei, spokesman with the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court.

Lawyer Peng Jian said the plaintiff demanded a compensation of 31,000 yuan (4,538 U.S. dollars) from Sanlu Group, a Shijiazhuang-based company that was at the center of the scandal.

(Xinhua News Agency March 25, 2009)