In late July Chinese police broke up two trafficking rings and rescued 89 Vietnamese children ranging in age from 10 days to 4 years. According to Thanh Nien News,
A total of 369 suspects have been detained in a series of coordinated raids throughout China, the report said, citing China’s Ministry of Public Security.
In one case, police in Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on July 15 detained 39 suspects and saved eight children, ranging from 10 days to seven months old. They were all given sleeping pills in order not to be discovered.
The individuals running the operations were largely Vietnamese.
The Associated Press reports,
Police sent the rescued children to orphanages as their parents had not been found.
It is often difficult to trace the parents of trafficked children and the law has not clearly defined the circumstances in which a buyer of a child should be punished. While many babies are stolen, some are sold by their parents.
Liu Ancheng, deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security Criminal Investigation Bureau, was quoted in the People’s Daily report as saying that if the buyers have not abused the children, they cannot be held criminally responsible.
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