In 2003, there was an extremely egregious case of human trafficking in Guangxi Province. Twenty-eight babies were stuffed into snakeskin bags, nearly suffocating to death. Who did they commit heinous crimes in vain? What was their final fate?
A phone call
On an ordinary spring day in 2003, the Guangxi Public Security Department received an urgent call to the police. After the police handling the case picked it up, an anxious voice came from the other end of the phone: "Comrade policeman, someone in the car abducted and sold children, please come over quickly......
Hearing the word "abduction", the operator instantly became nervous, and calmly continued to ask the policeman: "You calm down first, tell me the specific location, and we will go to the police immediately." ”
The other side seemed to deliberately lower his voice, afraid that people would hear, and after quietly telling the police the license plate number and location information, he hurriedly hung up, and it seemed that someone had found him.
Without further ado, the operator quickly transferred the report information to the bureau, and several public security officers quickly dispatched police forces to the police location.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the mainland's public security departments have been cracking down on human trafficking. Especially in some remote areas, people's thinking consciousness is very backward, and there are still many incidents of abandonment of baby girls in Guangxi Province around the turn of the millennium.
Men are often regarded as an indispensable part of the family, and even if the daughter's family is capable, in the eyes of the biological parents, it is a "bowl of water" that will be spilled, and in the final analysis, it cannot be counted as their own children.
In order to wait for the birth of the baby boy, some families even believe in folk remedies, pray to God and worship Buddha, use divination and other superstitious methods.
When a boy happens to be born, the parents become more convinced of the remedies, and continue to poison a superstition to the next generation. But more consequence is that the folk home remedies lack scientific basis, pregnant women take it to cause fetal malformations, at that time the pregnancy test technology has not been expanded, even pregnant pregnant women themselves are not light, which will bring a heavy burden to countless families in the future.
Families who have given birth to daughters but cannot afford to raise them sometimes sneak into the local social welfare home in the middle of the night and leave their baby girls at the door, as the staff have been impressed by.
The most common cases of abandonment are children with disabilities, intellectual disabilities, or healthy baby girls, which is related to local social and cultural habits.
Simply abandoned to a social welfare institution, relatively speaking, the parents are still conscientious, and socialized parenting can at least allow these children to survive and ensure the opportunity to grow, and what is worse is that the parents will sell the baby girl as a commodity to lawbreakers, how tragic the fate of these children will be in the future.
The 2003 abduction case shocked the whole country and involved a criminal gang in Guangxi Province that specialized in trafficking healthy baby girls. This whistle-blowing call made by a well-wisher regardless of his own safety is crucial.
The police quickly dispatched after receiving the police, but because the reported vehicle was driving on the highway to other provinces, how to intercept it in a short period of time will be a big problem, whether the police can catch the suspect?
Multi-party cooperation to solve the case
Considering the actual situation, the police who led the team decided to contact the traffic police on the highway, hoping to obtain the cooperation of the other party. After receiving the instructions of the Public Security Department and understanding the circumstances of the case, the high-speed detachment of the traffic police decided to set up interception checkpoints on the highway to conduct investigations, and to gain time for the public security officers to arrive at the scene to enforce the law.
Since the informant was already at risk of being discovered, the police could not obtain more information, only that the suspect was in a medium-sized bus and was trying to drive to a certain city.
The Guangxi traffic police detachment has set up inspection posts for possible highways to check the passing buses. The police force was deployed into five detachments, guarding different highway intersections.
But if a trafficker dares to commit a serious crime that faces the death penalty if he is caught, it must be handled thoroughly and there are countermeasures. In the unlikely event that the suspect becomes aware of the trafficking and is discovered, it is likely to escape the control of the police. The public security officers and traffic police comrades all increased their attention and carefully observed whether there was any abnormal behavior of the people coming and going.
After more than half a day's work, there were no strange people or luggage and other packages containing foreign objects on several suspicious highways. Some policemen felt tired and expressed their doubts to the captain: "Did this person report a false policeman? It's night, and we haven't found anything......
The police officer who led the team did not think so, he had many years of experience in handling cases, and the wording and tone of the police call were extremely authentic, and he took 10,000 steps back and said, even if it is fake, it cannot be wrong, which involves the connection between children and families, and cannot be ignored.
Later, the traffic decreased, and the captain changed the team on duty, letting them take turns to rest, but he didn't even care about eating, and he was still on the front line to observe whether there were any suspects.
It wasn't until almost ten o'clock that the situation arose. A passenger car with a license plate number matching the one in the policeman's mouth passed by the highway.
Highway openings are usually not checked, especially on weekdays like these. Seeing that there was an inspection post, someone in the car seemed to be a little uneasy.
Baby in a snakeskin bag
The traffic police get on the bus in accordance with the procedures to check whether the passengers' personal information is consistent with the ID card. Passengers and drivers are advised to inspect the baggage compartment and any packages they are carrying.
During the investigation, a middle-aged woman who was somewhat older did not cooperate. The traffic police presented the relevant certificates and explained the consequences of not cooperating. She explained in a panic that it was inconvenient for her to hold the child, and that her identity had been checked when she bought the ticket.
This shirk attracted Li Bin's attention, and the police did not argue about her illogical words, but directly took her back to the police station for further interrogation.
The police also noticed that she was always holding a baby who did not cry or make a fuss, and the people in the car were mixed, and there was no sound, but the baby was able to sleep peacefully, which was obviously unreasonable.
The police questioned the woman if the baby was her child. The suspect dodged his eyes and said that it was his little granddaughter. Where are grandmothers and granddaughters going, and where are her mothers? A series of questions made the suspect unable to speak.
At this time, the police confirmed that the child must have been abducted and trafficked, and the child's condition was also a little abnormal, so they contacted the local hospital to send the child to the hospital.
The middle-aged woman flatly denied her trafficking and kept excusing herself, and after hearing the diagnosis of the child from the hospital, she made a 180-degree turn in her attitude.
The hospital told the police that the child had taken an overdose of sleeping pills and was now in a coma and might have symptoms of drug poisoning. Middle-aged women know that they will not escape, and they begin to cry that their lives are miserable, all because of their own decisions. In order to alleviate her crime, she also confessed that several men and women in the car were also accomplices, and she was a cover.
The most terrifying thing was that she confessed that the gang had bribed the driver to hide the snakeskin bag containing the other 28 baby girls under the seat, and the reason why she was reluctant to get up was because the snakeskin bag was at her feet.
This fact shocked the police, and the remaining 28 baby girls were also taken to the hospital overnight. In order to keep the baby in the car quietly, the 28 baby girls were fed sleeping pills like the children in her arms.
How can a baby who is not yet able to digest food take an adult dose of medicine, which causes great damage to the child's body.
The prisoners were stuffed directly into the snakeskin bag like piglets, and there was almost a risk of suffocation. The evidence was conclusive, and the criminal gang had no quibbles to argue, and confessed to the facts of their crimes.
Repeated trafficking in human beings
The gang was caught trafficking baby girls this time, which was implicated in other human trafficking incidents. They turned out to be "veterans", and at the end of February 03, a driver also called nervously, saying that he had found four babies in the bus he was operating, and his lips had turned purple, and he didn't know if he was still alive.
After an investigation, the police concluded that the driver was not the perpetrator of the crime, and that he had relevant evidence to clear the suspect himself. But the driver himself was frightened and couldn't speak very clearly.
At that time, there were several damages to the nearby surveillance facilities, but in short, the police were unable to find out who had abandoned the four babies, and the case was closed, waiting for new clues.
Through detailed interrogation of the criminal gang, the police found that many of the baby trafficking incidents were related to them. These people belong to the same clan and are supposedly relatives.
Due to the high rate of abandoned babies in the area, they came up with this so-called way to make money. Several men are responsible for collecting information on abandoned babies and searching for families in the surrounding villages who are willing to sell their children. They will pay such families handsomely.
Because the families who sell to the market, some of them are even foreigners, they want healthy babies, and because they cannot have children, they want to have their own children through adoption or purchase, so they give a higher price.
In addition to trafficking abandoned babies, they will also abduct and sell boys to other families, because the price offered is enough for them to eat and drink for a year, so they have done several cases of abduction and trafficking, so that countless families have lost their children.
Several other middle-aged women acted as a cover to prevent others from exposing their criminal exploits. One comes and one together to provide the soil for the survival of crime.
In the end, the criminal gang was handed over to the court by the police, and in the end, all the suspects were sentenced to death due to the extremely bad facts of the crime and the mutilation of their lives.
epilogue
Once life becomes a commodity to be bought and sold, and money becomes a bargaining chip, then this society will no longer have humanity to speak of.
To this day, countless parents who have lost their children are still looking for the day when their baby will come home. I hope that there will be no more "trafficking" in this world, and I hope that every child can thrive under the protection of their parents.