Wednesday, February 19, 2014

For sale: Chinese babies and children

As many as 70,000 Chinese children are abducted and sold each year. Some end up in the US.
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HONG KONG — No nightmare is more chilling than having one’s child stolen away. But in China, that nightmare becomes real up to 70,000 times a year.
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New York TimesBy BOB HERBERT--Published: January 22, 1996
Sometimes you just have to swallow hard and drink another gin," said the teen-aged prostitute in Bangkok, Thailand. "I couldn't get through some nights unless I was drunk."


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