According to this BBC News article, a court in China has sent two men to death for kidnapping and trafficking more than 40 Chinese baby boys. The two men were apart of a gang that would steal baby boys from their parents in the poor provinces in the south-western part of the country. They would then sell the babies for thousands of dollars to villagers in the eastern province of Fujian.
The men received upward of $6,000 per child and were found guilty of stealing 46 babies total, two of which died from illness. Authorities have rescued the remaining infants but none have been returned to their families, which police cannot find. Because there is a preference for males in China, child trafficking has increased over the years.
Submitted by: Jaime Hacker
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