Because we're FUCKING SICK of human trafficking (babies rescued!)

RavenEyes · Feb 28, 2014

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/28/world/asia/china-online-baby-trafficking-crackdown/

China has smashed four child-trafficking rings and arrested more than a thousand people for using websites and instant messaging groups to trade babies, Chinese authorities said Friday.
On February 19, police from 27 provinces across China rescued 382 babies and arrested 1,094 people suspected of buying and selling infants online, China's Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on its website.

The sting was part of a six-month operation launched after police in Beijing and Jiangsu in eastern China received reports of a website promoting private adoptions.

Potential buyers

Further investigations uncovered a virtual black market -- involving four websites, online forums and some 30 groups on a popular Chinese messaging platform -- that connected traffickers with potential buyers.

The ministry said some of the people arrested confessed to using the sites.

According to local media reports, 27 suspects were arrested in the country's southern Sichuan province, where 13 babies were also rescued. Another 43 suspects were arrested and 11 babies rescued in Anhui province, in eastern China.

A woman arrested by police in Leshan, Sichuan admitted to buying two baby girls from Wuhan and Chengdu, in August 2013 and January 2014, respectively, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported.

Another couple in their 30s told CCTV they used a Chinese website to buy a baby from an expectant teenage couple in Chengdu. They paid 20,000 yuan (US$3,250) for the child.
It is not known where the other arrests took place.

More at link.

White Tara · Feb 28, 2014

OMG, This is great, and I find myself so impressed that China has shown itself to stand strongly against this. Faith in China somewhat restored

White Tara · Mar 1, 2014

Unashamed bump for a win for humanity and China.

Woo Hah · Mar 1, 2014

This could have been avoided if the babies has simply postulated while being waylaid on the intergalactic transfer station to be born to Scientologists.

Whose parents could sell them for 2 brand new Super Mark VIIIs.

For the greatest good.

fishypants · Mar 1, 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/chinese-police-child-trafficking-baby-rings

Criminals prey on citizens who live under strict controls on the number of children a family can have. These have bolstered a traditional bias for sons, seen as the support of elderly parents and heirs to the family name, and led to the abortion, killing or abandonment of girls.

About 118 boys are born for every 100 girls in the world's most populous country, against a global average of 103-107 boys per 100 girls. The imbalance has created criminal demand for kidnapped or bought baby boys, as well as baby girls destined to be brides attracting rich dowries in sparsely populated regions.

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China, which has a population of about 1.4 billion, said last year it would ease family restrictions, letting millions of families have two children, in the country's most significant liberalisation of its one-child policy in about three decades.

White Tara · Mar 1, 2014

softly softly catchy monkey

Perfecto · Mar 1, 2014

fishypants said: ↑

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/chinese-police-child-trafficking-baby-rings

Finally easing the one child policy, not before bloody time too.

Chrmywt · Mar 5, 2014

That's great, those fuckers should spend all their lives in prison.

muldrake · Mar 5, 2014

If they'd called it a religion they could have traded the babies to the Sea Org in return for "religious services."

Stupid baby smugglers.

Disambiguation · Mar 5, 2014

People aren't produce, I'm glad China recognizes this. Are the people arrested the ones running the websites or just the buyers?
Civil control vrs corruption?

TedBorg · Mar 7, 2014

China is recognising this now, it's time the rest of the world followed in China's wake. Sadly the trade in people trafficking is not one to end anytime soon.

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