Trial begins in biggest baby-trafficking case
By Jane Chen |
March 5, 2010, Friday
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TWENTY-THREE members of a family-run gang involved in China's biggest baby-trafficking case are being tried in central China.
The gang trafficked 49 children in four years and most of the victims, though rescued by police, have not yet found their birth parents, yesterday's Shanghai Morning Post reported.
The Wuhan Railway police are still trying to find the parents, the report said.
The gang was tried on Wednesday in Wuhan Railway Intermediate People's Court.
They bought the children in southwest China's Yunnan Province at 13,000 yuan (US$1,904) to 20,000 yuan each for boys, and 5,000 yuan to 14,000 yuan each for girls, and sold them in north China's Hebei and Shanxi provinces.
The boys were sold for 40,000 yuan each and the girls for 20,000 yuan.
The prices varied according to the babies' appearance, health and the eagerness of the buyers.
Yu Lixiang, the leader, allegedly participated trafficking 31 children, the court heard.
She attracted family members and friends into the profitable "business" including her brothers and sisters and a niece.
The young members were in charge of buying children while the seniors contacted buyers and sold the children.
Most of the ring members were poorly educated. Yu herself is illiterate and most others had primary school education.
Three babies died during the trafficking.
The gang trafficked 49 children in four years and most of the victims, though rescued by police, have not yet found their birth parents, yesterday's Shanghai Morning Post reported.
The Wuhan Railway police are still trying to find the parents, the report said.
The gang was tried on Wednesday in Wuhan Railway Intermediate People's Court.
They bought the children in southwest China's Yunnan Province at 13,000 yuan (US$1,904) to 20,000 yuan each for boys, and 5,000 yuan to 14,000 yuan each for girls, and sold them in north China's Hebei and Shanxi provinces.
The boys were sold for 40,000 yuan each and the girls for 20,000 yuan.
The prices varied according to the babies' appearance, health and the eagerness of the buyers.
Yu Lixiang, the leader, allegedly participated trafficking 31 children, the court heard.
She attracted family members and friends into the profitable "business" including her brothers and sisters and a niece.
The young members were in charge of buying children while the seniors contacted buyers and sold the children.
Most of the ring members were poorly educated. Yu herself is illiterate and most others had primary school education.
Three babies died during the trafficking.
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