5 punished in trafficking probe
By Ni Yinbin |
February 12, 2011, Saturday
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POLICE have seized five people suspected of human trafficking after media reports named Gongji Town in Anhui Province's Taihe County as a source of child abduction and trafficking.
The Taihe government said two disabled children had been found after a three-day search. Of the five suspects, one has been officially detained and the other four punished, officials said.
One of the suspects, Gong Chunfeng, 61, bought Zhang Qinglin's five-year-old disabled son for 4,000 yuan (US$607) in 2006 and had used him to beg in the cities of Yueyang, Changsha and Huaihua in Hunan Province since October 2006, the government said. As a reward, Zhang has received another 20,000 yuan five times through the years.
Another two suspects, a couple, Gong Baohua and Wei Yongqin, were found to have taken their adopted 15-year-old daughter, a polio victim whose hands and feet were deformed, to beg in Shanghai and Nanjing in Jiangsu Province since last year, said the government.
Their younger son said his sister, an abandoned infant, had been adopted by a family in Funan County. But they could not afford her any more when she was three, and Wei brought her home.
Last summer, the couple earned 5,000 yuan after taking her to beg in Nanjing for a month. Last autumn, the couple earned another 10,000 yuan in two months from her and then spent the money on their son's wedding, said the government.
Meanwhile, thousands of pictures of children begging on the street and on subways have been posted online since a nationwide campaign was launched last month to save child beggars. However, the more pictures there are, the more difficult it is for parents to find their lost children.
Scientists said yesterday that China's leading face recognition technology is to be used to assist the campaign.
With this technology, parents could immediately find lost children among the tens of thousands of uploaded photos, said Li Ziqing of the Chinese Academy of Science.
Li's research team, which provided the face recognition technology for the security systems at the Beijing Olympics 2008 and the Shanghai World Expo last year, is to apply the technology to finding lost children. The platform is due to be launched next week, Li said.
"With our technology, pictures with identical faces can be matched from millions within three seconds." Li said.
The system will be supported by Baidu.com, the biggest search engine in China, and also by sina.com as the latter's microblog has been playing a significant role in the campaign.
The Taihe government said two disabled children had been found after a three-day search. Of the five suspects, one has been officially detained and the other four punished, officials said.
One of the suspects, Gong Chunfeng, 61, bought Zhang Qinglin's five-year-old disabled son for 4,000 yuan (US$607) in 2006 and had used him to beg in the cities of Yueyang, Changsha and Huaihua in Hunan Province since October 2006, the government said. As a reward, Zhang has received another 20,000 yuan five times through the years.
Another two suspects, a couple, Gong Baohua and Wei Yongqin, were found to have taken their adopted 15-year-old daughter, a polio victim whose hands and feet were deformed, to beg in Shanghai and Nanjing in Jiangsu Province since last year, said the government.
Their younger son said his sister, an abandoned infant, had been adopted by a family in Funan County. But they could not afford her any more when she was three, and Wei brought her home.
Last summer, the couple earned 5,000 yuan after taking her to beg in Nanjing for a month. Last autumn, the couple earned another 10,000 yuan in two months from her and then spent the money on their son's wedding, said the government.
Meanwhile, thousands of pictures of children begging on the street and on subways have been posted online since a nationwide campaign was launched last month to save child beggars. However, the more pictures there are, the more difficult it is for parents to find their lost children.
Scientists said yesterday that China's leading face recognition technology is to be used to assist the campaign.
With this technology, parents could immediately find lost children among the tens of thousands of uploaded photos, said Li Ziqing of the Chinese Academy of Science.
Li's research team, which provided the face recognition technology for the security systems at the Beijing Olympics 2008 and the Shanghai World Expo last year, is to apply the technology to finding lost children. The platform is due to be launched next week, Li said.
"With our technology, pictures with identical faces can be matched from millions within three seconds." Li said.
The system will be supported by Baidu.com, the biggest search engine in China, and also by sina.com as the latter's microblog has been playing a significant role in the campaign.
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