Six Criminals Executed For Abducting, Selling 99 Children, 4 WomenSix convicts charged of abducting and selling four women and 99 children were executed Thursday upon the orders of a local court in southwest China's Yunnan Province.Li Huiying, Duan Yufen, Duan Senying, Qi Xiangzhou, Zu Wanliang and Wu Kailiang, from Yunnan or the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, were convicted as the major culprits in four extremely large cases of abducting and selling women and children during the past decade. A total of 98 other defendants were also found to have been involved in the four cases, and were sentenced to death with stays of execution for two years depending on their behavior in prison, life imprisonment or varying terms of imprisonment. According to the verdicts handed down by local courts in Yunnan, four of the abducted children died of illnesses. The children were sold in the provinces of Henan, Guangdong, Fujian and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Wu Kailiang and three defendants were convicted of beating Wang Zhenggang unconscious with clubs and knives, taking away his 18- month-old son Wang Yongliang on May 14, 1999, and later selling the baby. The verdicts were issued by the intermediate courts of the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefectures and Shaotong Prefecture. Many abducted children are still missing. |
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