China sentences woman to death for trafficking 11 children in 1990s
- Yu Huaying sold her own son born from an extramarital affair in 1992, according to a Beijing media outlet
- Official WeChat account from court says her crimes caused ‘extremely significant’ social harm and the criminal circumstances were ‘particularly severe’
In a verdict posted on its WeChat account on Monday, the Guiyang Intermediate People’s Court in Guizhou province said the child trafficker, Yu Huaying, abducted children in southwestern China, including Chongqing and Guizhou, then took them to Handan in northern Hebei province and sold them to buyers between 1993 and 1996.
She committed the crimes with her partner surnamed Gong, who has since died, it said. A further two people who served as intermediaries in trafficking children in Hebei would be punished through separate court actions, according to the post.
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Yu was sentenced to death because the court considered her crime caused “extremely significant” social harm and the criminal circumstances were “particularly severe”, according to the post.
It said that instead of confessing her crime and expressing remorse, Yu intended to appeal in court.
Yu was born in 1963 and grew up in an extremely poor town in southwestern Yunnan province, Beijing News Radio reported.
Her first dealing with human trafficking was selling her own son who was born in 1992 from an extramarital affair with Gong when they were both married to other people, according to the report.
