Big Trouble With Little Chinese

China is encountering a wave of child abductions according Al-Jazeera.

China is struggling to cope with a wave of child abductions which sees more than 200 babies and toddlers being stolen every day, according to some estimates.

It is a lucrative business in which an abducted girl child can fetch $1,200 and a boy anything up to $5,000, more than the average annual salary in urban China.

“Before I only knew people stole mobile phones and wallets. Later I knew that more than 1,000 kids have been stolen in this province, more than 20 kids living near me. It is astonishing,” Sun Haiyang told Al Jazeera.

The 35-year-old father knows the painful reality of the sordid business that preys on the angst of couples desperate for a child. His three-year-old boy Zhuo was last year taken from the street just 30 metres from his home in Shenzhen, southern China.

The kidnapper was caught on a surveillance video. First he handed Zhuo a snack, then a toy, before walking away with the boy.

The boy has never been found and the kidnapper has never been arrested.

“It’s too easy for the gangs. For a little money they can buy a birth certificate and then permanent residency for a child thousands of kilometres away,” Sun said.

“The government has created this environment.”

I know it’s Al Jazeera, but the story is an interesting read. Lesson # 134,890,502 how the Chi-Coms do not value human life.

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