Woman sentenced to death for trafficking 49 children

Woman sentenced to death for trafficking 49 children

Saturday, 17 April 2010

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Beijing, April 17: A court in China has sentenced a woman to death for trafficking at least 49 children, a media report said Saturday.

The court in Hubei province sentenced Yu Lixiang to death while two others -Du Minghua and Yu's sister Yu Xiaofen - were sentenced to life terms in prison Friday.

The 23-member child trafficking ring was convicted of buying 49 children from Yunnan province and selling them to people in Hebei province, Xinhua reported Saturday quoting a statement from the Wuhan Railway Transport Intermediate Court.

The ring, busted in May and June 2009, sold boys for up to 40,000 yuan ($5,860) and girls for up to 20,000 yuan ($2,930) each between March 2005 and July 2009.

The other 20 accomplices were sentenced to two to 15 years in prison.

---IANS

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