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[BEIJING, 3 January 2007] - Police freed nine boys ranging in age from two to eight after breaking up a family gang suspected of abducting children and illegally selling them to couples in central China, state media reported.
China has a thriving black market in babies who are abducted or bought from poor families for sale to couples who want children. The official Xinhua News Agency said police in Henan province's Nanyang city had detained 10 suspects. "The gang members had abducted nine children, all boys between 2 and 8 years old, since April, and sold them to rural families," Xinhua quoted city official Wang Jianmin as saying. Police had found all of the children by late Wednesday, the agency reported. The family gang was led by Ye Zengxi, 55, along with his son and daughter-in-law, Xinhua said. It said they used Ye's 12-year-old nephew to lure other children out of their parents' sight with toys or food, and then bundled them away by motorcycle. Eight of the nine freed children had been sold to rural families who wanted boys, while the other was being held awaiting a buyer, Xinhua said. Further information
pdf: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/03/news/China-Child-Abductions.php