Woman prosecuted for selling 14-year-old child to China
(Baonghean.vn) - Lien lured and sold M. to China for 70,000 yuan. When this woman returned to Vietnam to visit her father, she was arrested by the police.
On December 9, the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Province Police announced that the unit had just initiated a case, prosecuted the accused, and detained Lang Thi Lien (born in 1984, residing in Mau Duc Commune, Con Cuong, Nghe An) for 4 months for the crime of "Buying and selling children".
Lang Thi Lien was arrested by the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Province Police on November 23, after returning to Vietnam from China to visit her seriously ill father.
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| Subject Lang Thi Lien. Photo provided by police |
Before that, in 2013, Lien went to China and got married there. After living there for a while, Lien returned to her hometown, looking for gullible girls to trick and sell to China.
In early 2017, Lien went to the house of Ms. Lo Thi D. (born in 1981, residing in Binh Chuan commune, Con Cuong). Ms. D. had a daughter, Luong Thi M. (born in 2003), who was growing up, so Lien approached her and offered to take M. to China with her. In return, this woman would pay M.'s parents 80 million VND, not including the child's monthly salary.
Lien promised that when she went to China, M. would be well fed and well dressed, and would only have to look after her younger siblings and help with some chores around the house.
Because M. no longer goes to school and her family's circumstances are difficult, Ms. D. agreed to let her child follow Lien to China.
On January 17, 2017, Lien took M. to Mong Cai (Quang Ninh) and then illegally crossed the border into China. Lien sold M. to a man in Hebei Province (China) for 70,000 yuan. After selling M., Lang Thi Lien sent 80 million to the child's family and informed them that the child had married a Chinese man.
Hearing that her daughter was sold, Ms. Lo Thi D. tried every way to contact her daughter but failed. Knowing that Ms. Vi Thi T. (born in 1978, residing in Con Cuong district) had been to China and was familiar with the terrain, Ms. D. asked Ms. T. to go to China to pick up her daughter M.
When she found M. at her husband's house, Ms. T. took her to hide. After running away for about 5km, M. and Ms. T. were captured again. Lien called Ms. T.'s husband and demanded that he bring 110,000 yuan to China to ransom her, otherwise she would "cut off her heels".
Ms. D's family reported to the police and then, Luong Thi M. and Ms. Vi Thi T. were rescued by the police force in coordination with the Blue Dragon organization and brought back to Vietnam.
