In 2003, a fully loaded passenger car slowly drove into the highway from Yulin to Anhui and was guided by the Guangxi police to stop and conduct inspections.
The luggage rack at the rear of the bus has several strange snakeskin bags, which not only shake slightly, but even faint cries can be heard.
The police opened the snakeskin bag and found that it was a newborn baby!
The police scrutinized the luggage rack and opened all the snakeskin bags, revealing a total of 28 infants. Most of these children were just born, but each baby was tied hand and foot, and lay there motionless, without the slightest spirit of an ordinary child.
What the hell is going on? Where did these children come from? Where are their parents?
This bus, which was full of crimes, was stopped by the Guangxi police in time, thanks to a mysterious phone call that day.
On 17 March 2003, the Guangxi Traffic Police Highway Detachment received an anonymous phone call.
"I'm on the long-distance bus now, and there are people in the car who are selling children! The license plate number is Anhui 'S02099', and it is driving from Yulin City to Anhui.
The report call was abrupt and short, the anonymous whistleblower spoke in a low voice and spoke very quickly, and before the traffic police detachment could inquire in detail, the phone had already hung up.
The police preliminarily judged that this should be the passengers on the bus who found other passengers suspected of trafficking children on the way, and in order to save these children in time, they risked being found and called to report it.
If the content of this phone call is true, then the case is extremely bad and serious.
Now the passenger car is already on its way and must be intercepted urgently!
The Guangxi Traffic Police High-speed Detachment immediately reported to the superiors, and the Guangxi Public Security Department made a clear instruction, "Baby abduction and trafficking is a major case, and it is better to believe it than to believe it, it is the life of a carload of children!"
The high-speed traffic police detachment immediately took action and sent three squads to investigate.
Vehicles from Yulin City to Anhui must pass through the Binyang toll station.
In order to prevent traffickers from changing vehicles on the way, a large number of police officers concentrated at the Binyang toll booth to check every passing vehicle in the name of "safety inspection".
It was not until 8:42 p.m. that day that the target vehicle "Anhui S02099" finally appeared in front of the traffic police who checked the vehicle with the traffic flow.
The traffic flow at the highway intersection is extremely large, and in order to prevent accidents, two police officers introduced the target passenger car into the courtyard where the traffic police brigade headquarters is located, and then prepared for inspection.
The long-distance bus drove into the courtyard, and the police blocked the courtyard gate, telling the passengers on the bus that the police suspected that there were human trafficking suspects on the bus, and asked them to cooperate with the police to get off the bus.
Most of the passengers were very cooperative, lining up in an orderly manner with their ID cards to be interrogated by the police and checked their bags.
The people in the car left one by one, and a middle-aged woman who was glued to a chair and refused to get out of the car attracted the attention of the police.
The middle-aged woman was wrapped in a large bath towel, and a baby was sleeping in the crook of her arm, her eyes were flustered at the moment, but she still sat in her seat and refused to get up.
She said that she was injured in her foot and couldn't stand up, and it was inconvenient to hold her grandson, and she hoped that the police would stop checking her.
This is strange, a little baby who is still breastfeeding, is not with his mother, but with his grandmother?
Suspicious, the police did not listen to her defense, took the child and escorted him out of the car and back to the police station for interrogation.
The child's breathing was already very weak, and he appeared to be asleep, but in fact it looked like he was unconscious.
The police suspected that the baby was fed some unknown drug and quickly contacted the ambulance.
After the middle-aged woman was taken away, the police continued to inspect the car, and found several strange snakeskin bags in the rear of the bus, several of which were still shaking slightly, so they stepped forward and opened one of them.
Sure enough, inside the bag were two babies tied together.
Like the child just now, his breathing was weak, not like sleeping, but more like taking medication.
After all the snakeskin bags in the car were opened, the police found a total of 28 babies, all newborn girls, wrapped in a thin quilt and with cold faces.
The children in the snakeskin bag were all tied hand and foot, breathing weakly, none of them were awake, the scene was very horrifying, the police sent the children to Binyang County Hospital for examination and first aid.
After examination, the 28 baby girls were actually fed sleeping pills.
After Dr. Suo Xing's rescue, 27 baby girls were out of danger, but there was still one baby girl who was not rescued because she was fed too much sleeping pills.
The police quickly searched all the other passengers on the bus, and finally determined that 18 of the 42 passengers in the bus were all suspects of baby trafficking!
The Guangxi police attached great importance to this extraordinarily large infant trafficking case and designated it as the "317 extraordinarily large infant trafficking case."
On March 17, more than 20 trafficking suspects were brought back to the police station for interrogation, and police also stepped up patrols at various highway intersections and highways.
After more than 10 days of investigation, more than 20 suspects from different regions have been brought to justice.
On March 30, 2003, the Guangxi Expressway Traffic Police Detachment visited the human trafficker dens as usual and received another report call.
The call was from a driver from Henan Province, who told the police that he was driving through the Yongfu service area of the Guiliu Expressway and found several snakeskin bags on the lawn next to the fence.
On the phone, the driver was very nervous, saying that the four babies were in a very bad condition, and they were white and blue from the cold, but they no longer had the strength to cry.
Realizing that this must also be a human trafficking case, the police hurriedly prepared to dispatch police patrolling the vicinity of the Vinh Phuc service area.
As a result, not long after the police left the Vinh Phuc service area, they received another instruction - the Guangxi Expressway Traffic Police Detachment received a report call again, also about baby trafficking.
This time it was a taxi driver who said that a couple had come to take his car, and when they arrived at the Vinh Phuc service area, the car had a little malfunction, so he drove the car here for repairs.
Unexpectedly, the couple disappeared after getting out of the car and entering the service area to use the toilet, and left a few snakeskin bags in the trunk.
The driver opened it and saw that there were nine babies in four snakeskin bags, all of them pale and weak, as if they had been drugged and would stop breathing at any moment. The driver was frightened and immediately called the police.
All were fed sleeping pills and stuffed into snakeskin bags - the modus operandi was exactly the same as that of the baby who was rescued from the bus on March 17!
The police determined that this must be the same accomplice who had trafficked children in the past.
The nine babies were taken to the hospital in time, and after being identified by the driver, the couple was also arrested by the police on the same day.
After interrogation, the police learned that the suspects of the baby trafficking were all from the same gang, and the main leader was Xie Deming, a 58-year-old farmer in Fumian District, Yulin City.
Her family of seven people are all involved in the illegal activities of baby trafficking, and Xie Deming also uses his home as a base and transfer point for baby traffickers in Guangxi, and behind them, there is a huge "baby trafficking network".
Usually they will steal and abduct "abandoned babies" around Fumian District, Yulin City, and will also obtain babies from rural midwives and medical staff through low-cost purchases or other improper methods, and most of them are female babies.
In addition to the biological parents who dislike the sex of the baby girl, these engaged in the sale of infants and young children even include the medical staff of the Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Fumian District, Yulin City.
For example, doctor Li Qiong, obstetrician and gynecologist Wu Jindi of Fumian District Hospital, head nurse Li Huo and others have all privately carried out criminal baby trafficking incidents because they coveted the fees given by Xie Deming.
After buying the baby girls at a price of between 50 and 700 yuan, the baby trafficking gang from Henan, led by Cai Liping and Li Qiumei, and the baby trafficking gang from Hubei, led by Cui Wenwen and Zhao Hongliang, secretly transported the baby girls to Anhui or Henan and other regions for sale by long-distance buses, chartered buses, and taxis.
When these traffickers buy and sell, they usually sell at a price several times higher than when they were bought.
Fearing that the baby's cry would expose them, these traffickers did not care about how fragile the newborn baby was, and directly fed sleeping pills, then tied them hand and foot, and put them in snakeskin bags and took them away.
These baby trafficking gangs don't even feel that their actions have crossed the legal red line, they think that the baby girl is a burden to the family, and it is better to let them sell it for money.
After more than four months, more than 150 traffickers led by Xie Deming were all arrested and brought to justice, the entire infant trafficking network was completely destroyed, and the main culprit Xie Deming was sentenced to death.
After verification, the group of traffickers sold a total of 118 babies, including 177 girls and 1 boy.
Most of the rescued girls were only a few months old, and some were even full moon.
Some of them were abandoned by their parents, sold by doctors, and lured by traffickers, and in the end, the traffickers themselves did not know where the babies came from.
Although the follow-up police cooperated to complete the arrangement of these children, these children who were bought and sold at birth cannot return to their parents after all, and some may not be able to find their own homes for the rest of their lives, and they can't imagine what kind of changes they will face in their future growth.
A large part of the reason why these children can become traded goods in trafficking rings is because of the source, that is, their families, and how they are treated in the family.
Despite the changing times, in many remote areas, especially in relatively backward rural areas, the preference for sons still exists, and many families do not welcome newborn girls, which also gives traffickers a hole to drill.
Since you have given birth to your own child, you should be responsible for the child, and if you abandon the child because of your gender after giving birth, then what is the difference between such parents and traffickers?
The trafficking rings have been punished by the law, and those parents who choose to abandon their children do not know if they will be condemned by their conscience for the rest of their lives.