After 24 years of distress and browsing, a couple in China was reunited with their boy who was abducted as a young child outside their front gate.
Guo Gangtang and his spouse, hugged their 26-year-old boy with tears in their eyes Sunday at a reunion arranged by authorities in their home town of Liaocheng in the eastern province of Shandong, according to a video recording launched by authorities.
The story of their reunion after Guo crisscrossed China by bike looking for his boy and ended up being an activist who assisted authorities return other missing kids to their moms and dads triggered a profusion of public compassion and condemnation of kidnappings.
Guo Xinzhen, then aged 2 1/2, was gotten by a female and her partner who took him northwest to Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, the Chinese capital, according to authorities. From there, he was offered to a couple in main China.
Abductions of kids for sale are reported frequently in China, though how typically it takes place is uncertain.
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The issue is intensified by constraints that up until 2015 enabled most city couples just one kid. Boys are offered to couples who desire a child to care for them in aging. Girls go to moms and dads who desire a servant or a bride-to-be for an only boy.
Police professionals discovered Guo Xinzhen in June by browsing databases for pictures of individuals who appeared like he may as an adult, according to a cops ministry declaration. His identity was validated by a DNA test.
The lady and her partner, determined just by the surnames Tang and Hu, were captured and admitted to trafficking 3 kids, according to the ministry. They have yet to stand trial, however prospective charges vary as much as death.
Blood samples from Guo Xinzhen’s moms and dads were contributed to an “anti-abduction DNA system,” however no matches were discovered with kids who were thought to have actually been abducted, the authorities ministry stated.
Kidnappers target kids who are too young to understand their names or home towns and often even that they were abducted.
“So happy for Mr. Guo,” stated a post signed Ding Dalong on the Zhihu social networks platform. “He found his long-lost son and can move on with his own life.”
Others required purchasers of trafficked kids to be penalized. There was no word on whether the couple who purchased Guo Xinzhen would deal with charges.
Guo Xinzhen matured in Henan province, according to authorities, however no other information of his life have actually been reported. It isn’t clear whether he understood he was abducted.
His mom, Zhang, explained her anguish in a 2015 tv interview.
“What use is it for me to live?” she stated. “It was me who lost the child.”
Guo Gangtang, now 51, began his search bring a flag with his boy’s picture and information, consisting of “a scar on his left little toe.”
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Guo composed on his social networks account that he broke 10 motorbikes riding through 30 of China’s 34 provinces and areas.
According to report, he runs a store in Beijing that offers art work. He got monetary aid from his daddy, who kept infiltrating his 70s, and other family members.
Guo began a site in 2012 and a charity in 2014 to assist other moms and dads of abducted kids, according to report.
“Thank you for participating in anti-trafficking activities for 24 years and helping more than 100 children return home,” the authorities ministry stated on its social networks account.
Guo Xinzhen stated he will remain in Henan however prepares to visit his birth parents frequently, according to report.
“He is a great father,” Guo Xinzhen was priced estimate as stating to press reporters. “I am proud of him.”
