Kidnapped - China

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Published by journeymanpictures at 11/23/2009 12:11 Like

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November 2009

Tens of thousands of children are abducted and sold on the black market in China every year. Reluctant to tackle or even acknowledge the issue, Chinese authorities offer no support to desperate parents.
I watch them every day, says Mr Sun looking at CCTV footage of his son moments before he was kidnapped. Children have become commodities for buying and selling. Like thousands of Chinese families, the Suns have received no support from the police and are continuing a desperate and risky search on their own. Parents like them are viewed as troublemakers. How dare you question the government? the police shouted as the parents took part in a protest. The government does not openly acknowledge the issue. According to Amnesty International, statistics at the provincial level or the national level on child trafficking are classified as state secrets. Many blame the countrys one-child policy: with parents often relying on sons to look after them in their old age, boys will sell for as much as $6,000.

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Peter Dodds, at 03/27/2013 04:13, says:
Iinternational adoption is a system filled with a documented and on-going pattern of baby stealing, child trafficking, adoption agency corruption and legal violations. Tis video is just one more example.
khiane00, at 09/19/2012 01:56, says:
ever heard of the Amber alert?
Ghostbustr7, at 08/31/2012 06:02, says:
This is a very depressing video. I just wish that these communist governments can just find it it in themselves to actually do something good
jdooobie, at 08/13/2012 22:53, says:
They sold her for money
nhatbuu duong, at 08/11/2012 11:32, says:
Subject is wrong china not from a message segment any out.
KalishnakovModel1947, at 08/06/2012 05:14, says:
I think there's a pretty big difference between the two... U.S. authorities stop when the trail gets cold, but they perform thousands of operations against human traffickers every year. I happen to live in one of the top three U.S. cities for human trafficking (Sacramento, CA). Compared to practically any city in China, our problem is relatively light. Chinese authorities deliberately deny the problem, and fight people simply trying to right a wrong, because China has to "look good".
天绮秀, at 06/10/2012 03:34, says:
@NinjaMike28yes!!! Because of the stinking law of one only one child I got abonndoned by my stinking parents!!! But china is a beautiful and wonderful place it's just the government has become corrupt over the years!! But yes it's hard to take care of a country but still they could have taken care of the population a different way because of the law there's a high adoption rate which makes them have another problem!! I'm Chinese too I love china but I'm saddened by the problems in it :(
天绮秀, at 06/10/2012 03:10, says:
@HotZetiGer No it's not the country as a whole it's the chinas corrupt government
天绮秀, at 06/10/2012 03:31, says:
@Exult Add that to the number of kids abonndoned each year in china and see how big the numbers get :(
天绮秀, at 06/10/2012 03:15, says:
I do have to admit that there's a lot of things I don't like about china like kids being kidnapped and abandoned by their parents cause of the one child rule :( i was one of the kids abonndoned by my so called parents and the worst part is they kept me for 3 years and prob once they had a son just left me!!!! But I wish in the future that china will fix the problems and have a new government :( I love my china but I wish it didn't have so many problems/bad stuff happening
Olengher, at 05/18/2012 20:02, says:
Btw, west, despite level of development are a bunch of horsethiefs.You wont hear about adoptions industry, organ transplant industry but you will hear a tramp like Mrs Clinton speaking about the rights of americans to buy a baby.
Olengher, at 05/18/2012 20:12, says:
Ahhahahahah, thats what happens when you dont ban international adoptions you moronic chinese and sell children to west.Notice the reporter doesent say anything about adoptions industry.My country banned adoptions 11 years ago at first signs of trouble and were not exacly brightest people under the sun.I used to respect them cos they shot drug dealers.What a shithole of crooks and idiots this world is, from parliaments to forest tribes
Alex7s, at 05/07/2012 16:38, says:
lets hope their organs arent being donated
fomiz, at 04/19/2012 19:51, says:
I think there is some kids going to the villages for sure but I think it is mainly gangsters that are using them for begging and selling things. There are many disabled on purpose so they get more money. This is a real problem in China
fomiz, at 04/19/2012 19:12, says:
Well your guess would make some sort of sense if only boys were abducted but that's not the situation, evident from the video here.The government also permits rural families to have more than one child.Orphanages are not restricted to just major cities & a lot of orphaned kids in them actually come from rural families.I don't know the real reason these kids are being abducted but unlike you I'm pretending I do know or failing at guessing the reasons.
fomiz, at 04/19/2012 17:27, says:
Besides how can the people that are paying the agent to kidnap the children in the first place be considered poor if they have enough funds to pay someone to get them a child. Duh! Think about it.
fomiz, at 04/19/2012 17:15, says:
It's called: "you have no idea what you're talking about. Read something in a book or URL & think it applies here". I doubt whether you've lived in China or actually visited the country but believe me it's so unnecessary to abduct children.They're literally hundreds living on the streets in the main cities, not even counting those in orphanages. There's another angle to conundrum here & I starting to think it has something to do with the fee the kidnapping agent is getting for the children.
fomiz, at 04/19/2012 16:42, says:
And so what is your fucking point?
fomiz, at 04/11/2012 12:43, says:
one again journeyman we need an update
fomiz, at 04/11/2012 11:25, says:
Why steal a child when there are so many orphaned?
Jenny Jenson, at 02/20/2012 09:07, says:
Jeeee, China is filled with ugly people doing ugly stuff!!
jp0kamikaze0, at 11/29/2011 22:51, says:
No oppense! But that guy from 0:50 looks like a creeper!
122172639, at 09/12/2011 12:37, says:
Actually, New Balance still makes 25% of their shoes here. They cost $55-100, same as the China ones. All my toothpaste is Burt's Bees made in the USA,100% natural, no toxins. My phone was made in Finland; I spent $320, unlocked, no contract(retail $730).Carl Zeiss lens, is faster than the iPhone I had to use for a month,free full flash browser.It's not more expensive; it's that the money goes to the WORKERS, not the billionaire CEOs who aren't paying taxes.1/3 AREin poverty, anyway.
122172639, at 09/12/2011 11:00, says:
your query is old, but bilingual (speak very "well" to be proper ;)) is great w/Mandarin in particular... could be a TRANSLATOR on site,but to be the actual reporter usually involves 15-20 yrs tough experience proving you'll sludge through swamps+take shit stories, &95% of these AREN'T BOUGHT/aired.A degree in journalism is mandatory almost everywhere.China's VERY hard to report in&getting tougher every year; if ALL we had was Fox News, we'd have 50x more points of view than PRC's 1.