{"id":41084,"date":"2009-06-21T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=41084"},"modified":"2009-06-21T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T16:37:42","slug":"china-police-rescue-trafficked-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/06\/china-police-rescue-trafficked-children\/","title":{"rendered":"China Police Rescue Trafficked Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/06\/children-forced-into-pickpocket-gang-return-home\/\"> national crackdown<\/a> on child trafficking, police have rescued 23 children and made several arrests. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/21\/AR2009062100143.html\"><strong>From Reuters<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Wuhan Rail Bureau in central China has also netted 18 suspects in an 8-day campaign targeting trains pulling in from the city of Kunming, the capital of impoverished Yunnan province in southeast China, the Xinhua news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Other children, ranging in age from 100 days to 8 years, from the poor, coal-mining province of Shanxi, have been found in Shandong province on the prosperous coast. They were taken hundreds of miles in buses by smuggling rings that used poor migrants to accompany the children.<\/p>\n<p>Many are now in orphanages, since their parents have not been found, Central China Television said in a report on the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese babies, especially boys, from poor and remote areas may be sold to more prosperous people in far-away provinces. Some older children are also sold to gangs who train them to beg in bigger, richer cities. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a national crackdown on child trafficking, police have rescued 23 children and made several arrests. 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