Harsher punishments will not stop trade in children
By Cao Yin | China Daily | Updated: 2013-01-22 07:41
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A woman holding a baby boy she bought from child traffickers is stopped by plainclothes police officers in Anxi county, Quanzhou, Fujian province, in December. Public security authorities rescued 89 abducted children and arrested 355 suspects in a nationwide crackdown on children trafficking in December. Wang Shen / Xinhua |
Levying heavy punishments on families that adopt abducted children, as a top public security official has suggested, is unlikely to solve the problem of human trafficking, according to legal experts.
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