Posted on 07/13/2021 12:25:39 PM PDT by RandFan
A Chinese man has been reunited with his son after a 24-year search that saw him travel over 500,000km (310,000 mi) on a motorbike across the country.
Guo Gangtang's son had been snatched aged two by human traffickers in front of their home in the province of Shandong.
His son's disappearance actually inspired a movie in 2015, which starred Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau.
Child abductions are a big problem in China, with thousands taken every year.
According to China's Ministry of Public Security, the police were able to trace the son's identity using DNA testing. Two suspects were later tracked down and arrested, said a Global Times report.
The suspects, who were dating at the time, had planned to kidnap a child with the intention of selling him for money, said a report by China News.
After spotting Mr Guo's son playing alone outside his home, the female suspect identified only by her surname Tang grabbed him and took him to the bus station, where her partner, named as Hu, was waiting.
The couple then took an intercity coach to neighbouring Henan province and sold the child there.
Local media reports say Mr Guo's son was found still living in the province.
Mr Guo and his wife cried and hugged their son when they were reunited in Liaocheng, Shandong, on Sunday, state media CCTV reported.
"My baby, you came back!" said the mother, whose name was not released, in a video of the reunion.
"Now that the child has been found, everything can only be happy from now on," Mr Guo told reporters.
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Hu?.......................
From the age of two to 26, a lot changes. How did they know it was him?
Back in the late 1990s, I remember news reports in Hong Kong about Chinese cops busting a criminal ring that was snatching babies in distant provinces like Szechuan and Yunnan, putting the babies in boxes - and trucking them to big cities like Shanghai for sale. If some died on route, that was merely a cost of doing business.
I believe the perps got the standard CCP bullet in the back of the head - which in this case, was well-deserved.
Hu’s on first.
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Sum Ting Wong
“From the age of two to 26, a lot changes. How did they know it was him?”
DNA.
The article does not mention it.
“ According to China’s Ministry of Public Security, the police were able to trace the son’s identity using DNA testing. Two suspects were later tracked down and arrested, said a Global Times report.”
“...to trace the son’s identity using DNA testing”
“The article does not mention it.”
You just missed this part:
“According to China’s Ministry of Public Security, the police were able to trace the son’s identity using DNA testing. Two suspects were later tracked down and arrested, said a Global Times report.”
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