Yu Huaying, a woman accused of trafficking 11 children for illicit gains, was sentenced to death by a court in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Monday.
It was discovered during the trial that from 1993 to 1996, Yu, born in Yunnan in 1963, colluded with a man surnamed Gong, who died during the course of the case, to repeatedly abduct children from Chongqing and Guizhou and traffic them to Hebei Province for illicit financial benefits.
According to a previous report by ThePaper, there were three pairs of siblings among the 11 children who were trafficked.
The Guiyang Intermediate People's Court believed that Yu's behavior constituted the crime of child abduction and the criminal circumstances were particularly serious, with a great negative effect on society.
Therefore, the court sentenced her to death, deprived Yu of her political rights for life, and confiscated all her personal property.
Yu said she will appeal the decision to a higher court.
