Babies sold on to families in Guangdong
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A WOMAN who led a baby trafficking ring that brought 23 boys and a number of pregnant women from Vietnam to China was sentenced to death yesterday.
Huang Qingheng’s activities in 2010 and 2011 also led to her personal assets being confiscated when she appeared at the Intermediate Court of Fangchengang in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Huang Manli, another member of the gang, was sentenced to life imprisonment and her assets were also confiscated.
The court gave another 22 members of the gang sentences ranging from 22 months in prison to 15 years behind bars.
The group comprised 15 Chinese, one Vietnamese and eight people claiming to be Vietnamese, but who had no identity papers. Eighteen of the gang members were women.
One Vietnamese woman was ordered to be deported to her home country.
The court heard that Huang Qingheng, with the help of Huang Manli, began buying and transporting babies from Vietnam to China for adoption in 2010. Initially working on a small scale, they sold the infants to families in south China’s Guangdong Province.
In 2011, the pair met Ruan Shijun, who was sentenced to 15 years yesterday, and the trio began trafficking babies on a much larger scale.
With the help of various associates, they also arranged for pregnant Vietnamese women to travel to China to give birth before selling their babies to local families, prosecutors said.
The smugglers evaded detection at the border by moving the children and women on out-of-the-way roads before heading to Guangdong.
The gang was busted by Chinese police in July 2011. Of the 23 infants known to have been trafficked, 11 have since been found but 12 are still missing.
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