XINHUA – A court in Guizhou Province, southwest China, yesterday held a retrial of a woman charged with abducting and trafficking 17 children.
In September 2023, the Guiyang Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Yu Huaying to death after finding her guilty of abducting and trafficking 11 children from Guizhou and Chongqing to the city of Handan in Hebei Province between 1993 and 1996.
Yu and her accomplice, a man who has since died, sold the children for profit.
The court also deprived Yu of her political rights for life and ordered the confiscation of all her personal property. Immediately after the verdict was announced at the court, Yu submitted an appeal against the ruling.
