China’s baby trafficking industry reappears: 14 day-old baby boy sold for 150,000 yuan
WRIC Report 10-21-2024
During the strict family planning era, China had a large number of cases of baby trafficking. However, today when the number of births is no longer controlled by the government, China has once again seen a baby trafficking industry chain. A 14-day-old baby boy was traded on the streets of Jiangyin City, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, and was sold for 150,000 yuan. The intermediary said that more than ten babies have been sold this year. The police said that the relevant suspects have been controlled and will thoroughly investigate the clues of the crime in other provinces and cities in China.
The New York-based NGO China Women’s Rights submitted a report on missing children in China to a hearing committee of the U.S. Congress on anti-child trafficking in 2011 during the most rampant family planning period in China. (The picture is the cover of the anti-trafficking report)
According to Red Star News, a 14-day-old baby boy was sold for 150,000 yuan on the street in Jiangyin City, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province on the evening of October 19, 2024. Among them, the seller’s driver took a bag of 78,000 yuan in cash, and the rest was the agency fee.
The male agent surnamed Su who arranged the transaction said that he has successfully sold more than ten babies this year, and has successfully sold two cases every month recently, “80,000 yuan last month.”
The agent said that the baby came from “the big brother who pushed it directly to me.” The “big brother” is the team leader and a relative of the intermediary. He established an intermediary company in Linfen, Shanxi. Six people, including the intermediary, are the company’s “executives” responsible for baby trafficking-related work.
After the baby trafficking was exposed, the Jiangyin Public Security Bureau reported on Sunday (20th) that it had controlled the 22-year-old male intermediary surnamed Su. The Wuxi police acted quickly and stopped the tragedy from continuing. The police arrested the Feng couple and others who bought the baby, and the baby has been rescued. But behind the baby trafficking, there is often a mature profit chain. For example, the intermediary Su mentioned that “he has successfully sold more than ten babies” and the source of the babies was “recommended by the big brother.” In other words, there is an organized and divided criminal gang behind it.
According to the report, the adoptive parent is an 18-year-old woman surnamed Li who works in Jiangyin; she gave birth to a son on October 6. Because she was unable to raise him, she posted information online through her cousin-in-law surnamed Xue to find an adopter. After seeing the information, the intermediary surnamed Su contacted the Feng couple in other provinces who had adoption needs, and then traded face to face in Jiangyin.
The notice also stated that criminal compulsory measures have been taken against the relevant suspects in accordance with the law, and the case is under investigation. The clues of crimes in other provinces and cities will also be thoroughly investigated.
According to Jimu News, behind this trafficking case lies an extremely mature, large-scale, and clearly divided black industry chain. From contacting buyers and sellers to handling the “laundering” of birth certificates, to the final transaction link, the entire process is a “corporate” operation.
The report said that the root cause of the repeated crackdown on the evil of trafficking in babies is that the Chinese people have given rise to a deformed “market demand” due to the “preferring sons over daughters” ideology and other reasons.