The brother-in-law conspired to sell his 14-year-old sister-in-law to China to be married off.
(Baonghean.vn) - When his sister-in-law asked about work, Ngoc contacted several individuals to traffic this young woman to China. The victim was sold when she was just over 14 years old.
On July 27, the Nghe An Provincial People's Court opened a trial for the "Child Trafficking" case 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, due to frequent beatings from her husband, Q. went to the farm of her brother-in-law, Ngoc, to look for work. After learning that Q. wanted to find work, Ngoc, Soi, and Tuan found someone to take her to China to be sold. Knowing that Nang had recently returned from China, Tuan contacted her.
After the discussion, Tuan and Nang went to the farm to meet and negotiate the price for taking the girl to China to be sold. When they met, Q. demanded 80 million dong from Soi before agreeing to go to China to get married; however, the other party only quoted 60 million dong.
After agreeing on the price, Nang took Q. to China. There, Nang and an unidentified woman sold the victim to a man in Hebei province to be his wife for 180 million dong. In this case, Nang profited 30 million dong; Tuan, Soi, and Ngoc each profited 10 million dong.
After being sold for over a year, in July 2016, the victim Q. escaped back to Vietnam. Some time later, Q. filed a complaint against those who had sold her.
At the trial, the defendants admitted to the crimes. Nang admitted to being the mastermind, taking the victims to China and directly carrying out the human trafficking because she had lived there for a period of time.
The remaining defendants confessed that they conspired to take Q. to China to sell her, profiting 10 million dong from the deal.
The court ruled that the defendants' criminal acts violated the children's right to physical freedom, honor, and dignity, as well as the victims' right to care and education, and treated children as commodities for exchange. Therefore, a strict trial is necessary to punish, deter, and prevent similar crimes in the future.
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 trafficking in children.