Babies on TV in hunt to find their parents
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PHOTOGRAPHS of 11 babies were broadcast on television yesterday in a bid to reunite them with their parents.
The infants — four girls and seven boys — were rescued from a trafficking gang in southwest China’s Yunnan Province earlier this year but police have so far been unable to trace their families and they may have to be put up for adoption, China Central Television reported.
A gang led by a man surnamed Gong had bought the babies from areas near the border with Vietnam, where baby trafficking is rampant. Prices ranged from 8,000 (US$1,309) to 10,000 yuan, police said.
Gong recruited local women to take babies to other provinces where accomplices were waiting to sell them on for as much as 140,000 yuan each.
CCTV said police were alerted to Gong’s activities in August last year.
This April, police caught him when he and a woman were in the process of selling three babies in east China’s Shandong Province.
Over the next five months they caught 32 gang members in nine cities in four provinces — Shandong, Henan in central China, Yunnan and Fujian in the southeast.
The gang, many of them relatives, were found to have trafficked 21 babies, some just a few days old, but only 11 had been rescued so far.
Baby trafficking is rampant in rural Yunnan, where women who are too poor to care for their babies or who have a girl — traditionally not favored in remote rural areas — are attracted by the money on offer.
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