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Chinese Railway Police Hit Traffickers
Police at the Guangzhou Railway Public Security Bureau in south China have uncovered 18 cases of trafficking women and children over the past two weeks, saving 82 people and seizing 22 suspects.
On June 12, police apprehended a man named Hu Jinqing on a train heading from the city of Chengdu in southwestern Sichuan Province to Shenzhen in Guangdong. Hu is reported to have conned four girls into believing he could find work for them in a beauty salon, but he in fact intended to sell them to the shop.
Hu had gone to a labor market in the city of Leshan, Sichuan Province, claiming that he could find jobs for people. The girls, each aged 18, followed him.
In a separate case, police were called to a Guangzhou rail station on June 11 where they stopped a man named Zeng Zhaosheng with a weeping girl. After questioning Zeng, they learned that he was involved in several rapes and the trafficking of young women. Police at the Huaihua railway station in southern Hunan Province uncovered two major cases of trafficking children, saving 31 youngsters from Guizhou Province in southern China and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the southwest.
A spokesman for the Guangzhou Railway Public Security Bureau said that the crackdown on trafficking women and children will continue.
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