Zhao Rui felt that "business" was coming, because he saw a woman with a female infant, about half a year old, in room 208. "My wife's sister has always been unable to have children and has long wanted a child..." In late November last year, after Zhao Rui invited by phone to "do business," Pu Mou, Ma Mou and five other "post-80s" arrived as scheduled and rented a house in Jinghu Village in Erqi District. On the night of renting the house, the landlord took Zhao Rui downstairs to room 208 to move a bed.
On December 15th last year, he called his wife: "Someone here doesn't want their child anymore and wants to sell it for about 9000 yuan." He asked his wife to ask her sister "if she wants it."
Among the other five people, two got 600 yuan each, and the other three got 500 yuan each.
The other five were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of six years and six months to ten years and fined between 5000 yuan and 8000 yuan.
"I have always been very careful, but I still opened the door for them, almost losing my daughter..." Mrs. Shi regretted the decision to open the door afterward.
The woman who bought the girl was released due to lack of knowledge.
Fortunately, on December 17th last year, the police caught Zhao Rui and five others in Xinzheng City, and the baby girl was rescued.
On the evening of December 17th, when Mrs. Li was at her mother's house, the police appeared. Mrs. Li was released due to lack of knowledge.
The mother of the abducted baby said that these people knocked on her door under the pretext of borrowing a basin, and warned that "doors must not be opened to strangers in the future."
"I am your neighbor, I would like to borrow a rice bowl."
When knocking again, Mrs. Shi opened the door.
Zhao Rui then found five friends to discuss the matter of abducting the baby. None of the five opposed.
Zhao Rui called his wife's elder sister, Mrs. Li, asking her to receive the child at the door.
Mrs. Li from Xinzheng said that when Zhao Rui gave her the little girl that day, he did not explicitly tell her where the child was "from." "Now thinking about it, this child must not have come through legal channels."
Last December 16th, "Dong, dong, dong..." Ma Mou and two others came to knock on the door of room 208, saying, "I am your neighbor, I would like to borrow a rice bowl."
Thinking it was a neighbor borrowing something, "I didn't open the door at first, but the man outside kept knocking. Thinking we were neighbors, I went to open the door while holding my daughter."
"I have always been very careful, but I still opened the door."
She had just opened the door slightly, "the man suddenly pulled the door wide open, then three people came in. They covered my mouth, tied up my hands and feet, and both me and my daughter cried..."
Before Mrs. Shi could speak, they pressed her to the ground, tied her up, and took the child away.
After those men left, she struggled to get up from the ground, "used scissors to cut the tape binding me, couldn't find the landlord, so I called my family. After my family returned, we reported it to the police."
It was like a dream, Mrs. Shi said, in the future she wouldn't easily trust any stranger's words, "doors must not be opened to strangers."
Mrs. Li gave Zhao Rui 8000 yuan, out of which Zhao Rui kept 5300 yuan, bought a mobile phone, and gave his wife 2000 yuan.
Yesterday, the Erqi Court made a first-instance judgment: Zhao Rui and the other five committed the crime of child trafficking. Zhao Rui was sentenced to 11 years in prison and fined 10,000 yuan.
Zhao Rui said that his wife's sister married in 2004 and has not been able to have children. Because of this reason, she has not been treated well in her in-laws' home, so they wanted to adopt a child. The family was also looking for a child for her.
Without money, Zhao Rui called five "post-80s" buddies to look for some "business opportunities."
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