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China police rescue 23 trafficked children
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-06-21 16:10 BEIJING: Police across China have rescued 23 children in a nationwide crackdown on child trafficking from poor provinces, media said on Sunday. The Wuhan Rail Bureau in central China has also netted 18 suspects in an 8-day campaign targeting trains pulling in from the city of Kunming, the capital of southwest China's Yunnan province in southeast China, the Xinhua news agency said. Other children, ranging in age from 100 days to 8 years, from north China's Shanxi province, have been found in east China's Shandong province. They were taken hundreds of miles in buses by smuggling rings that used poor migrants to accompany the children. Many are now in orphanages, since their parents have not been found, Central China Television said in a report on the campaign.
A child may be sold for anywhere from 7,000 yuan to 40,000 yuan ($1,000-$5,850), depending on the age and sex, the Xinhua report said. Police in Shanxi said parents struggling to make ends meet might sell their newborns. Women travelling with a small child and lots of milk powder but little in the way of children's clothing or other items are potential traffickers, the report said. Women and girls from the poor countryside are also potential victims of kidnapping and trafficking. ($1=6.836 Yuan) |
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