Brother-in-law colluded to sell 14-year-old sister-in-law to China to get married
(Baonghean.vn) - When his sister-in-law asked for a job, Ngoc contacted some people to take this mountain girl to China. The victim was sold when she was just over 14 years old.
On July 27, the People's Court of Nghe An province opened a trial for the case of "Child trafficking" against the defendants: Moong Thi Nang (born in 1994), Ven Pho Ngoc (born in 1988), Ven Van Tuan (born in 1985), all residing in Bao Nam commune, Ky Son district and Luong Van Soi (born in 1988), residing in Pha Danh commune, Ky Son district. The victim in the case is Chich Thi Q. - who was just over 14 years old at the time of being sold.
According to the case file, around May 2015, because her husband often beat her, Q. went to her brother-in-law Ngoc's farm to look for work. After learning that Q. wanted to find work, Ngoc, Soi, and Tuan found someone to take her to China to sell. Knowing that Nang had just returned from China, Tuan contacted this woman.
After the discussion, Tuan and Nang went to the farm to see each other and agree on the price to send the person to China to sell. When they met, Q. asked Soi to pay 80 million VND to agree to go to China to get married, however, the other side only offered 60 million VND.
After agreeing on a price, Nang took Q. to China. While there, Nang and a woman of unknown origin sold the victim to a man in Ha Bac province to marry, for 180 million VND. In this case, Nang profited 30 million VND; Tuan, Soi and Ngoc each profited 10 million VND.
After more than a year of being sold, in July 2016, the victim Q. fled back to Vietnam. Some time later, Q. wrote a complaint against the people who sold her.
At the trial, the defendants admitted to their crimes. Nang admitted to being the mastermind, bringing the victims to China and directly carrying out the human trafficking because she had lived there for a while.
The remaining defendants confessed that they colluded to take Q. to China to sell for a profit of 10 million VND.
The panel of judges determined that the defendants' criminal acts violated the children's rights to physical freedom, honor, dignity, and the victims' rights to care and education, and considered children as commodities for exchange, so they needed to be severely tried to punish, deter, and prevent general education.
Therefore, the court sentenced Moong Thi Nang to 9 years in prison, Ven Van Tuan to 7 years and 6 months in prison, Luong Van Soi to 7 years in prison, and Ven Pho Ngoc to 6 years in prison for the crime of Child Trafficking.