A court of the Chinese province of Guizhou (center) sentenced to death a woman who kidnapped and sold eleven children between 1993 and 1996according to the verdict published today by the Intermediate Court of Guiyang in your official account WeChat.
The woman, Yu Huayingwho plans to appeal the ruling, was sentenced to capital punishment after the court considered that her crime caused a “extremely significant” social damage and that the circumstances in which he committed it were “particularly serious”.
Yu, according to the sentence, kidnapped minors in southwest China and sold them in the city of Handan (Hebei province, north).
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 judged separately.
According to the station BeijingNewsYu, who is now 60 years old, sold in 1992 a son born from an extramarital relationship with Gong, with whom he later dedicated himself to kidnapping and selling minors, mostly from families with few resources.
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 about the kidnapper.
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, 42 million more men than women in 2017although 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 112,703according 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 “it is believed that thousands of executions” in that country.
(With information from EFE)
Source-www.infobae.com