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In most countries tens - perhaps hundreds - of thousands of children being abducted and sold on the black market would be seen as a national crisis, but not, it seems, in China. The government is touting some success in cracking down on child-trafficking gangs, but Adrian Brown finds distraught Chinese parents taking matters into their own hands. REPORTER: Adrian Brown These grainy images of a supermarket security camera record a young child being abducted. A woman leaves followed by the child, who appears distressed. The woman has taken the little girl's umbrella. Outside, the child will vanish, like tens...

A fourth-grade teacher at Ysleta Elementary School is one of two El Pasoans arrested last week on suspicion of trying to sell someone else's child, Ysleta Independent School District officials said. Roberto Cortez, 46, a five-year district employee, has been suspended with pay, school district officials said Tuesday. Cortez and Alicia Alvarado, 27, who live at the same address in the 7300 block of Dale Road, were arrested Thursday night and charged with selling a child, a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000, according to a written statement by...