Woman charged with human trafficking
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A SHANGHAI woman has been charged with human trafficking after allegedly selling a woman to a farmer in neighboring Jiangsu Province, prosecutors in Jiading District said yesterday.
The suspect, Cao Liping, is accused of arranging the sale in August 2008 of Shen Huan — a woman described as having learning difficulties — to a man named Wang Defu who wanted her as a wife for his son, who also has special needs, prosecutors said.
Wang is alleged to have paid Cao 15,000 yuan (US$2,450).
Shen had earlier been kidnapped by two unnamed men — one of whom was Cao’s son — close to her home in Shanghai. The pair took her to Jiangsu and handed her over to Cao to complete the deal.
In 2009, Shen gave birth to a son. The following year she contacted her parents and told them what had happened to her, saying she was unhappy and wanted to go home, prosecutors said.
Shen’s father reported the matter to police, but when he went to collect his daughter, she told him she’d changed her mind and wanted to stay with her new family in Jiangsu.
In January of this year, the father visited his daughter again and persuaded her to return to Shanghai. Shen agreed and later testified to police that she had been abducted.
Cao was apprehended on her return to Shanghai earlier this year after learning that her son had been killed in a car crash.
The second man involved in Shen’s abduction is still at large, prosecutors said.
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