2023-09-19 12:18:00
The Chinese court of justice in Beijing (REUTERS/Carlos García Rawlins/File)
A court in the Chinese province of Guizhou (center) sentenced to death a woman who kidnapped and sold eleven children between 1993 and 1996, according to the verdict published today by the Guiyang Intermediate Court on its official WeChat account.
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The woman, Yu Huaying, who plans to appeal the ruling, was sentenced to death following the court found that her crime caused “extremely significant” social harm and that the circumstances in which she committed it were “particularly serious.”
Yu, according to the sentence, kidnapped minors in southwest China and sold them in the city of Handan (northern Hebei province).
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The crimes were committed with an accomplice named Gong who has already died, while two other people who acted as intermediaries in the sale of the children will be tried separately.
According to the Beijing News station, Yu, who is now 60 years old, sold a son born from an extramarital relationship with Gong in 1992, with whom he later dedicated himself to kidnapping and selling minors, mostly from families with few resources.
Human trafficking is a persistent problem in China exacerbated by the former one-child policy and the gender imbalance. REUTERS/Staff/File
The woman’s arrest was possible thanks to the fact that one of her victims managed to locate her biological sister and provide the police with information regarding the kidnapper.
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Human trafficking is a persistent problem in China exacerbated by the former one-child policy and the imbalance between the sexes, which has caused, according to the World Bank, that there were 42 million more men than women in 2017, although in the In recent years, technologies such as DNA analysis and facial recognition have helped solve cases that had been stalled for years.
Between 2010 and 2019, the number of cases of trafficking in women and minors amounted to 112,703, according to data from the Asian country’s Statistics Office.
The Chinese authorities do not provide official data on the number of those sentenced to death, but in its 2022 annual report, the human rights organization Amnesty International noted that “thousands of executions are believed to have been carried out” in that country. .
(With information from EFE)
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