Chinese kidnappers who held boy for nine months are jailed
Married couple had tried to raise child as their own son
Two men and a woman in southern China have been jailed for their part in abducting a five-year-old boy whom they kept captive for nine months, local media reported.
The kidnapping was masterminded by a man surnamed Ou, who had a grievance against the mother of the boy.
Ou persuaded his accomplices, a married couple, to abduct the child one morning in May last year, Guangzhou Daily reported, citing the court hearing on Friday.
Ou had been angry because his wife had left him and he blamed the mother, who was a close friend of his wife, for encouraging her to do so.
The two suspects – a man named Chen and woman named Li – went round to the boy’s house in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, and found him alone with his seven-year-old sister.
