On January 28, 2004, a group of police officers came to a cave in the village of Duoyin in Hequ County, Shanxi Province, and the policemen raised their pistols and were ready to fight at any time.
He Yong recognized at a glance that the woman in front of him was Peng Hongju, the main criminal of the major abduction case he had been looking for for many years, and Peng Hongju, who had escaped for more than ten years, had long since ceased to be the scenery of that year, and looked old and depressed.
Seeing the arrival of the police, Peng Hongju was surprised and a little surprised, she actually whimpered and cried, and said to the policemen: "How did you come, last night I dreamed that you came to arrest me, and now I can finally go home!" ”
It turned out that soon after Peng Hongju escaped, he was abducted and sold to Shanxi by his "peers" and became the "wife" of an old single stick Zhao Rongxiu for twelve years.
In the past twelve years, Peng Hongju has been beaten and abused by Zhao Rongxiu all the time, and when she was found by the police, she had been abused to the point of paralysis, and her body was covered with the scars of being beaten.
When Peng Hongju once unscrupulously abducted and sold women and children as her own prey, she never imagined that she would one day become a prey in the eyes of others.
How did this vicious human trafficker escape the police? Why was she abducted and sold to the deep mountains and old forests and became a prey for confinement?
The mega-human trafficking case that shocked the whole country
"Comrade policeman, it's not good, our family Cuicui suddenly disappeared." In 1992, a local citizen rushed to the Rongchang County Public Security Bureau to report the case.
On the day of the crime, Cuicui's family took her out of the market at the age of six, the market was mixed with fish and dragons, Cuicui accidentally left the family's sight, when the family found out, Cuicui had been missing for a long time.
The police determined that this was a premeditated case of human trafficking. At that time, similar cases had been happening uninterruptedly, and after investigation, a huge criminal gang of women and children abducted and trafficked led by Peng Hongju appeared in front of the police.
Since 1986, Peng Hongju and others have been engaged in trafficking activities, mainly targeting young children and women who are not deeply involved in the world, using direct abduction and cajoling to take victims to other places for profit.
In 6 years, this gang has abducted a total of 85 women and children, and the most heartbreaking thing is that some of them were directly abandoned by Peng Hongying because of their illness, and most of the abandoned children died because of the disease.
It can be said that Peng Hongju's hands are stained with the blood of innocent victims and the tears of the abducted family, and she can be called the most heinous crime.
On August 17, 1992, the police, with the tracks of most of the suspects, quickly organized an action squad to arrest and attack them.
The arrest operation was a complete success, and 42 criminal suspects, including Peng Hongju's husband, were arrested in the arrest operation, but unfortunately, the biggest criminal leader, Peng Hongju, escaped by chance.
In 1993, the Chongqing Municipal Intermediate People's Court pronounced a verdict in the case, and all the criminal suspects involved in the abduction and trafficking were duly punished, and Peng Hongju's husband, Chen Dingqi, was directly sentenced to death as the main offender.
The escape path of the fish that slipped through the net
After learning that her husband was arrested, Peng Hongju was very scared, she always felt that the police would immediately follow the vine to find herself, in order to escape legal punishment, she decided to go out to hide for a period of time, and then come back after the limelight passed.
Because the police arrest was too sudden, Peng Hongju did not transfer the property in advance, and at this moment, she had to flee the dangerous hometown with her small savings.
Her first thought was to go to Henan, the "sales place" she was most familiar with, to hide, but the police soon followed her previous range of activities to Henan, and Peng Hongju did not dare to stay in Henan any longer, and immediately took a train to Inner Mongolia.
Peng Hongju, who did not have much money on her body, was not long before she fell into a situation where she could not afford to eat, and she realized that she could not hide endlessly, so she decided to go out and find a job to support herself.
When looking for a job, Peng Hongju was repeatedly frustrated, and her own conditions determined that she could only do some low-level work without a threshold, and many bosses did not dare to use her when they heard that she could not get her ID card.
After touching a nose of ash, Peng Hongju finally found a temporary shelter in a brick factory on the outskirts of Baotou City, Inner Mongolia.
The owner of the brick factory began to say very well, "It doesn't matter if you can't get your ID card, we treat you as a normal employee here, you are at ease to do things here, and you will certainly not be treated badly." ”
Hearing these words, Peng Hongju was overjoyed, and she thought that she had finally found a stable job.
But when she was paid the next month's salary, she found that the number was different from the number that she had said at the beginning, and when she looked for the boss theory, the boss decided that she did not dare to speak up, and casually found a reason to send her away.
Peng Hongju was angry and angry, she remembered that she used to rely on the abduction and sale of children for profit, and easily earned a lot of money, and now she is selling coolies here, and the money is not much, not to mention that she is angry.
But thinking about it, the husband has "gone in" because of the abduction and trafficking, and it is fortunate that he can still live and steal his life, and the so-called step back from the sea and the sky is better than being caught by the police.
The identity of the fugitive made Peng Hongju nervous like a cat with its tail trampled at all times, and after a year, she felt that it was no longer safe and decided to continue to flee.
Evil is rewarded with evil, and those who harm others are always killed
People are most likely to lose their judgment when they are nervous, Peng Hongju has been on the run for a long time at this time, and the loneliness and loneliness and fear on the way have created a huge hole in her heart.
At this time, she met a very close "fellow countryman". This young man said that he was a native of Mianzhu, Sichuan, and had only come to Inner Mongolia to work for a part-time job, so he met Peng Hongju.
Peng Hongju's hometown is in Chongqing, as the saying goes, the Sichuan-Chongqing family is close, not to mention that Chongqing was not yet classified as a municipality directly under the central government, similar eating habits and dialect accents made Peng Hongju quickly become acquainted with this young man.
In Peng Hongju's eyes, this young man was enthusiastic and honest, and was a very reliable person.
At this time, she completely forgot that she was also good at pretending to be similar, to deceive the trust of others, and then wait for the opportunity to carry out criminal actions.
Soon after, the "fellow villager" told Peng Hongju that he had a friend who had opened a factory in Shanxi, and that the factory had good benefits, and that he was ready to leave Inner Mongolia for Shanxi to join his friends, and that if Peng Hongju wanted to, he could take her with him.
Peng Hongju originally had the intention of leaving Inner Mongolia, the words of the "fellow countryman" were right in her arms, she was full of trust in the young man in front of her, she did not expect this step to step out, and the abyss under her feet would not be able to break free.
The "fellow villagers" took Peng Hongju on the train to Shanxi, and along the way he was telling Peng Hongju how good Shanxi was, and how high the treatment was after the two of them arrived at their friend's factory, Peng Hongju was completely intimidated by him.
After arriving in Hequ County, Shanxi, the "fellow villagers" said that they would rest at a relative's house tonight and leave for the factory tomorrow, so they took Peng Hongju to the cave where Zhao Rongxiu was located.
This is a cave of about ten square meters, Peng Hongju just arrived at the door by the smell of smoke inside can not open her eyes, she looked at the "hometown", in her heart remembered the "hometown" to paint her "cake", the heart crossed the step into.
The next morning, Peng Hongju found that he had been abducted and sold by his "fellow countrymen"!
The money and documents on her body were taken away by Zhao Rongxiu and hidden, and the "fellow villagers" who brought her over also disappeared without a trace, and at this time, Peng Hongju fell into the ice cave and could not say a word.
12 years in prison
After the East Window incident, Peng Hongju thought about her own ending many times: she might be found by the police and end up with the same fate as her husband; she might continue to flee smoothly until the case passed the prosecution period.
But what she couldn't have imagined if she wanted to break her head was that as a human trafficker, she would be sold by her "peers"!
The man who bought her, Zhao Rongxiu, was a shepherd ten years older than her, and because of his family's poverty, the girls of the surrounding villages were reluctant to marry him, so he has been single until now.
He knew that he could not marry and have children through normal channels, and after hearing that there were thousands of single sticks in the next village to buy a daughter-in-law, Zhao Rongxiu began to think crookedly.
After paying the trafficker 3500 yuan, Zhao Rongxiu looked at the "wife" he bought and was overjoyed, he grinned widely, and wrinkled his dark cheeks that had been full of vicissitudes.
He approached Peng Hongju and wanted to be close to her, Peng Hongju looked at the old and ugly Zhao Rongxiu in front of him, and his heart was sick to his stomach, and he almost spit out yesterday's overnight meal.
She desperately resisted Zhao Rongxiu's approach, but there was a natural difference in strength between women and men, and her resistance was not only useless, but also often attracted Zhao Rongxiu's beatings.
In remote rural areas, it is not unusual for singletons to "buy" wives, because of "interests", the whole village will help to watch the bought women, lest the men in the village cannot "marry wives" after being discovered by the police.
Peng Hongju lived under such close surveillance that she had thought about escaping more than once, but every time she was found, she would be beaten half to death.
In Zhao Rongxiu's eyes, Peng Hongju was not a wife who sat on an equal footing with him, but a tool for succession, and he tied Peng Hongju to his home for a long time and did not allow her to have any contact with the outside world.
According to Peng Hongju's recollection, she was sold to Shanxi for only 3 baths in 12 years, her hair was so greasy that she could be knotted, and her body became a comfortable nest for lice. ”
In the most desperate time, Peng Hongju even thought about turning herself in, but she was in the deep mountains and old forests, and she could not get in touch with the outside world, let alone contact the police.
The following year, she suffered from cerebral thrombosis and gallstones, and after years of beatings and humiliation, Peng Hongju slowly became immobile, and by the time she was finally found, she had lost her normal walking function.
The devil will finally be judged
Day after day of hell life made Peng Hongju gradually numb, and the double torture of physical and psychological made her gradually give up running away, and just when she thought that she could see the end of the rest of her life, the police suddenly arrived.
"What's your name?"
"Yellow... Huang Shiying. Peng Hongju reported a false identity that he had been using all along.
"You lie! You are Peng Hongju! ”
If Peng Hongju was struck by lightning, whether she confessed to the crime or denied it, her heart was struggling fiercely, and after a while, she lowered her head and whispered, "I'm sorry, I am Peng Hongju." ”
After the news spread, the villagers, including Zhao Rongxiu, were shocked, they all knew that Peng Hongju was a Sichuan woman who had been abducted and sold, and no one expected that this foolish-looking woman would be an unforgivable human trafficker.
On February 1, 2004, Peng Hongju was escorted back to Chongqing by the police from Taiyuan, and at the airport, the police took Peng Hongju to a meal and ate meat that could only be eaten in the Past 12 years during the New Year.
A few hours later, the plane landed at Chongqing Jiangbei Airport, returned to her hometown after a long absence, and listened to the familiar rural sounds around her, Peng Hongju couldn't help but burst into tears.
Peng Hongju burst into tears in the detention center, "I have been too much of a failure in my life, I am so old, I have nothing to blame myself, I should not have taken that road in the first place."
Soon after, the court held a public hearing on Peng Hongju's case, and at the trial site, Peng Hongju constantly used his tragic experience in the past 12 years to excuse himself, opening his mouth and asking the court to take it lightly.
Peng Hongju initially lied that he had lost his memory due to illness, saying that he was not the main perpetrator of child trafficking, but only a marginal figure in the gang.
Faced with the evidence presented by the police, she patted her head and said that she had misremembered and that she had indeed been involved in the crime, but that only 11 of the children were related to her.
Peng Hongju's defender argued that although Peng Hongju had engaged in the crime of child abduction, she had sold mostly overborn or abandoned babies, and that she had been treated harshly over the years, hoping that the judge would consider that she was seriously ill.
The law is fair to anyone and does not change because a suspect's experiences on the run are mixed.
Peng Hongju's abduction and trafficking of children is an ironclad fact, and the torture she has suffered in the past 12 years can only be said to be deserved, and cannot be used as a reason for a light sentence.
After the trial, the Rongchang County People's Court in Chongqing City convicted Peng Hongju of child abduction and trafficking because he was a central figure in the gang and was eventually sentenced to death.
Peng Hongju has been cursed, but the family that was once harmed by her can never return to its original appearance, may there be fewer demons like Peng Hongju in the world, and all children can grow up safely and healthily!
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Chongqing Evening News: "The female demon head of the human trafficker absconded but was sold, and the days were full of lice"
Beijing Youth Daily: "Extraterrestrial Traffickers Against Being Abducted"