Shocking

A pregnant 12-year-old girl in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, was found to be a victim of trafficking after she was brought to a hospital for an antenatal examination. Her doctors found that her age seemed not to match what her two “relatives” were saying. After being prevented from getting more information from the girl, the hospital began to doubt her identity and called the police who found that the girl had been trafficked from Vietnam and alleged that the two “relatives” who accompanied her to the hospital were the trafficker and the buyer. Netizens decried China’s light punishment of the buyers of trafficked people, saying that it has led to the country’s rampant trafficking of women and children.