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China – Police Rescue 37 Babies from Chinese Baby Trafficking Ring – Boys Sell for Higher Price!
Sarah Zagorski Jan 16, 2015 | Beijing,
China
Earlier
this week, China Central Television reported that authorities rescued 37 babies
and a toddler out of an abandoned factory in the southwestern province of
Shandong. The children were found in poor condition and many were suffering
from HIV-AIDS and malnutrition. Police first became suspicious of the
trafficking ring when they noticed that pregnant women were being herded into
the factory.
According to CNN, human traffickers were
recruiting pregnant women in the area willing to sell their babies and hid them
in the factory until they gave birth. Then, after the women had their babies,
they gave the newborns over to the traffickers and left. Police said that inside
the abandoned factory they found diapers and other signs the building was being
used as “underground delivery room.”
The babies were sold at a local morgue for anywhere from
$8,000-$13,000, and a suspect named Wu told the police “boys are more expensive
than girls.” Additionally, the South China Morning Post reported that the
traffickers would feed the children instant noodles or some leftover vegetables
while waiting for buyers. A Chinese police official, Chen Shiqu, said that the
incident is a “new criminal pattern” in which child traffickers take pregnant
women to a specific place to give birth. Currently, police have 103 people in
custody who are suspected of selling or buying children.
China
has seen numerous child-trafficking cases in the past few years. In 2013,
police rescued 92 children and two women and arrested 301 suspects.
The
recent case is the result of a two-month sting operation in which the babies
were smuggled inside handbags and luggage to a morgue at a hospital for
infectious diseases, where they were kept until buyers arrived.
Police
said nearly all 37 babies who were rescued were in poor health. Some had
bedsores. One had been nearly smothered to death, trapped under heavy blankets
inside the factory.
“At that
time, the baby’s face was already turning purple,” police investigator Liu Yang
said, according to CNN. “If we didn’t search through those blankets, that baby
many have already died.”
As LifeNews previously reported, Reggie Littlejohn, the
president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, explained that the brutal
One-Child Policy is largely to blame for the trafficking problems in China.
She
said, “The One Child Policy is the driving force in trafficking. Couples who do
not have a son want to obtain a boy through trafficking. Couples who already
have a son may want to traffic a girl into their family, to ensure that their
son will have a bride when he grows up. In China, the marriage market is on the
road to collapse. Because of the pronounced gender imbalance caused by
gendercide – the selective abortion of baby girls — there are currently about
37 million more males living in China than females.”
In
2013, the U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Person (TIP) report
revealed that China has refused to acknowledge that its policy is creating a
gender imbalance and fueling trafficking.
For
example, just last year, Chinese officials uncovered
four child-trafficking rings and arrested more than a thousand people for using
websites and instant messaging to sell babies. Unbelievably, a Chinese OBGYN
was also convicted for kidnapping and selling infants after telling there parents they were
sick in early 2014. Ultimately, the One-Child Policy has resulted in over 400 million abortions and nearly 40 million sex-selection abortions.