Taking her nephew to China to change his life, aunt gets jail sentence

(Baonghean.vn)- On August 21, the Provincial People's Court opened a first-instance criminal trial to try Lo Thi Kim (born 1992), residing in Chau Cuong, Quy Hop, for the crime of "Human trafficking".

Lo Thi Kim at the trial. Photo: Nhu Binh.

According to the indictment, in 2012, Lo Thi Kim went to China and married a man there. While living in China, Kim met a man named Khai (specific identity not yet determined). Khai asked Kim to find Vietnamese women to go to China to sell to men there as wives.

Kim called Lo Thi T. (born in 2000, Kim's niece) and invited T. to go to China to get married. Kim told T. that marrying a Chinese man would give her a happy life and she wouldn't have to do anything.

Kim agreed with Khai to sell T. for 135 million VND, of which T.'s family would receive 100 million.

On March 11, 2017, Kim picked up Lo Thi T. and took her to Mong Cai (Quang Ninh) to cross the border into China. That same evening, when the bus carrying Kim and T. arrived at Quynh Luu district, Nghe An, they were discovered and arrested by the provincial authorities.

Considering that the defendant is an ethnic minority, has limited legal awareness, confessed honestly, has a good personal history, and the victim has filed a petition for a reduced sentence... the panel sentenced Lo Thi Kim to 3 years in prison./.

Nhu Binh