Police save 89 children from trafficking gangs
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July 28, 2011, Thursday
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Police rescued 89 children after smashing two major human trafficking rings in south China, the Ministry of Public Security said yesterday.
Officers from 14 provinces and autonomous regions worked together to bust the rings, detaining a total of 369 suspects.
On July 15, police in south China's Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region broke up a cross-border trafficking gang, saving eight children and detaining 39 suspects.
The gang members were mainly Vietnamese, smuggling children from Vietnam into China.
In the other trafficking case, more than 2,600 police officers were dispatched on July 20 from nearly every corner of China to bust a cross-regional trafficking ring operating in areas ranging from southeast China's Fujian Province to the northern province of Hebei. Eighty-one children were rescued and 330 suspects detained.
Chen Shiqu, director of the anti-human trafficking office of the Ministry of Public Security, said the rescued children would be in the care of civil affairs departments before their parents could be located and verified through DNA tests.
Chen said the children were not allowed to stay with their buyers to discourage the growth of the market.
It is often difficult to trace parents of trafficked children and the law has not clearly defined the circumstances in which a buyer of a child should be punished. While many babies are stolen, some are sold by their parents.
Officers from 14 provinces and autonomous regions worked together to bust the rings, detaining a total of 369 suspects.
On July 15, police in south China's Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region broke up a cross-border trafficking gang, saving eight children and detaining 39 suspects.
The gang members were mainly Vietnamese, smuggling children from Vietnam into China.
In the other trafficking case, more than 2,600 police officers were dispatched on July 20 from nearly every corner of China to bust a cross-regional trafficking ring operating in areas ranging from southeast China's Fujian Province to the northern province of Hebei. Eighty-one children were rescued and 330 suspects detained.
Chen Shiqu, director of the anti-human trafficking office of the Ministry of Public Security, said the rescued children would be in the care of civil affairs departments before their parents could be located and verified through DNA tests.
Chen said the children were not allowed to stay with their buyers to discourage the growth of the market.
It is often difficult to trace parents of trafficked children and the law has not clearly defined the circumstances in which a buyer of a child should be punished. While many babies are stolen, some are sold by their parents.
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