Child kidnappers arrested in China: state media

[Coventina]

Source: AFP

BEIJING (AFP) — Police in south China said they had arrested members of a gang that kidnapped and sold children, state media reported, as part of a campaign against human trafficking.

Police in Jiangmen city in Guangdong province said they had arrested 10 gang members and rescued 11 children sold on to people in the region and in neighbouring Fujian province, the official Xinhua news agency said.

The children, all boys between the age of three and eight, were sent back to their homes after the gang, headed by a 35-year-old woman, had been broken up, a police officer surnamed Wu told Xinhua.

Six of the children had been abducted between July last year and January, according to Wu.



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[Enrique]

1. Damn commie government., interfering in free enterprise

Xinhua quoted analysts as saying that kidnappings were fuelled by demand from families who wanted a boy, or private employers looking for cheap labour.

In June 2007, a child labour scandal sent shockwaves through China, after children and disabled people were found working as slaves in hundreds of brick kilns across central and northern China.