Police rescue 64 babies in trafficking gang raids
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Police rescued 64 babies in the latest crackdown on human trafficking, which also saw the seizure of 171 suspects, the Ministry of Public Security said yesterday.
Coordinated raids in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces that had been planned last year had been carried out in recent months, it said.
The babies have been sent to orphanages while police seek to reunite them with their parents.
However, Chen Shiqu, director of the ministry’s anti-trafficking office, said most of the babies had been sold by their mothers from poverty-stricken Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
One of the gangs involved was an 18-member ring in the central province of Henan led by 72-year-old Qin Xiuyun, her son and her daughter-in-law, according to the Beijing Times.
Qin befriended migrant workers, got to know those who wanted to sell their babies and helped them to find buyers, police told the newspaper.
She accommodated pregnant women at a pig farm and took them to a private clinic to deliver their babies.
A doctor at the clinic said Qin claimed the women worked at a local brick kiln, the newspaper reported.
The pig farm owner said Qin had told him that, in most cases, couples she took there were looking for work, it reported.
Police said some of the pregnant women were drug users or had diseases. They were kept at the farm to save costs and avoid police raids. Hygiene was non-existent, and many babies were born with health problems.
Police said Qin sold boys for around 70,000 yuan (US$11,290) and girls for 50,000 yuan.
The network came to light after police busted a burglary gang last May and found some members also trafficked babies.
Trafficking is rampant in rural Sichuan and neighboring Yunnan, the newspaper said, with women too poor to care for their babies or who had a girl instead of the boy they wanted.
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