Fri 04 Jan 2008
Children go home as China cracks trafficking ring
BEIJING (Reuters) - Nine trafficked children were returned to their parents in central China on Thursday in a rare success story in a nation where population controls have led to rampant child-trafficking, state media reported on Thursday.
Police detained 10 suspects after the abduction of nine children in Henan province early last month.
The gang was led by Ye Zengxi, his son, daughter-in-law, and his brother. The gang used Ye’s 12-year-old nephew to lure the nine boys, aged between two and eight, away from their parents’ view with toys or food, and then whisked them away by motorbike, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Child-trafficking is rampant in China, where population control policies have bolstered a traditional bias for male offspring, seen as the mainstay for elderly parents and heir to the family name, and have resulted in abortions, killings or abandonment of girls.
