Chinese Farmer Jailed for Using Five-year-old Son to Smuggle Heroin

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Chinese Farmer Jailed for Using Five-year-old Son to Smuggle Heroin

A farmer from southwest China's Guizhou Province has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for using his five-year-old son to traffic heroin.

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A farmer from southwest China's Guizhou Province has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for using his five-year-old son to traffic heroin.

The prisoner, surnamed Li, was also fined 5,000 yuan (602 US Dollars).

Li worked as a migrant worker in Taicang County in the eastern province of Jiangsu and was persuaded in April to traffic drugs bya man also from Guizhou whose name was not disclosed, according tothe People's Court of Taicang.

He was promised more than 2,000 yuan (241 US Dollars) to carry drugs from Yunnan, a neighboring province, to Taicang. Yunnan is usually used by drug traffickers as a major channel to ship GoldenTriangle drugs overseas.

At the man's instruction, Li brought his son with him for the smuggling mission. After obtaining 44.9 grams heroin from the drugsupplier, Li hid it in his son's pockets, where he thought it would be safe.

But he was spotted behaving suspiciously at a checkpoint near Taicang, where he was questioned, and a consequent inspection uncovered the drugs.

According to the Criminal Law of China, people who make use of or abet children to smuggle, sell, traffic or produce drugs will be subject to harsher punishment than other cases.

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