Tricking 2 young girls from Nghe An into growing flowers and then selling them to China
(Baonghean.vn) - Instead of taking them to Da Lat to grow flowers as previously enticed, Lu Van Thanh and Luong Van Lu took two young girls on a bus to Mong Cai (Quang Ninh) to sell them to China to earn spending money.
On November 27, the People's Court of Nghe An province held the first instance trial of the human trafficking case against two subjects, Lu Van Thanh (born 1993), residing in Ta Ca commune, and Luong Van Lu (born 1992), residing in Keng Du commune, Ky Son district.
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| Defendants Luong Van Lu and Lu Van Thanh in court. Photo: Quynh An. |
According to the indictment, around September 2017, Lu Van Thanh went to work at a wood workshop in China and discussed with his sister, Lu Thi Don (born in 1982, living in China), about finding women in Vietnam to sell to China. For each woman successfully brought to China, Thanh would receive 30 million VND.
In December 2017, Thanh returned to Vietnam and discussed with his friend Luong Van Lu about finding women to sell to China for marriage, and splitting the money in half.
At the end of May 2018, Luong Van Lu often called and talked to Ms. Moong T. L, born in 1996 (living in the same commune as Lu) and invited her to work for hire (growing flowers) in Da Lat City, Lam Dong Province in order to deceive Ms. L so that Thanh could sell her to China. Ms. L agreed and invited her nephew, LT M, born in 2002, to work with her.
On June 21, M and L were taken to the bus station. But instead of going south, Thanh took M and L north. At 5am on June 22, 2018, Thanh, M and L arrived at the Nuoc Ngam bus station.
At this time, Thanh led Ms. M and L to another bus to continue the journey to Mong Cai City, Quang Ninh Province. When getting on the bus, the two young girls asked the passengers and discovered that this bus would go to Mong Cai, not to Da Lat.
Realizing they had been tricked, L and M hurriedly got out of the car and ran away, but Thanh chased after them. The incident was discovered by the bus station security force, so Thanh tried to run away but was later arrested.
The panel of judges determined that the actions of the two defendants were dangerous to society and should be severely punished according to the law. However, based on mitigating circumstances such as repentance, committing the crime but not causing any damage, the panel of judges decided to sentence Lu Van Thanh to 5 years in prison and Luong Van Lu to 4 years in prison.
