On December 27, the case of the abduction of Guo Gangtang’s son, the prototype of the movie “The Orphan”, was pronounced by the Shandong Liaocheng Intermediate People’s Court in the first instance.
According to CCTV News, on December 27, 2023, the Intermediate People's Court of Liaocheng City, Shandong Province publicly pronounced the verdict on the child abduction and trafficking case of the defendants Hu Fuji and Tang Lixia in accordance with the law. The defendant Hu Fuji was sentenced to death for the crime of child trafficking, with a two-year suspension of execution and deprivation. Political rights for life, and all personal property shall be confiscated, and the defendant Hufuji is subject to a reduced sentence; defendant Tang Lixia was sentenced to life imprisonment for child trafficking, deprived of political rights for life, and all personal property shall be confiscated; at the same time, the defendant Hufuji, Tang Lixia jointly compensated the plaintiff in the incidental civil lawsuit for material losses of more than RMB 500,000.
The court found that from 1997 to 1998, the defendants Hu Fuji and Tang Lixia abducted four children, Li Mouhui, Guo Mouzhen, Yang Mouhao and Li Mouhao, for the purpose of selling. In 2001, the defendant Hu Fuji and others abducted the child Yang Mouyu for the purpose of selling. The defendants Hu Fuji and Tang Lixia jointly abducted and trafficked four children for the purpose of selling. Hu Fuji and others abducted one child for the purpose of selling. Both of their actions constituted the crime of child abduction. The court made the above judgment based on the facts, nature and circumstances of the two defendants' crimes.
According to the Yangtze Evening News, on the eve of the sentencing, Guo Gangtang said that he had communicated with Guo Zhen about the sentencing. “He was worried that he would not be able to bear it at the sentencing site, and his children were in the final review stage and needed to be looked after at home. ."
Guo Gangtang also expressed the hope that Hu and Tang, the suspects of child abduction and trafficking, would be severely punished by law. "I really can't understand why they extend their evil hands to the children again and again, causing four or five families to suffer and wait for more than 20 years."
According to previous reports, September 21, 1997, Liaocheng, Shandong Guo Xinzhen, the two-year-old son of Guo Gangtang and his wife, was taken away from their home and his whereabouts are unknown. Over the next 20 years, Guo Gangtang rode more than 500,000 kilometers to dozens of provinces and scrapped 10 motorcycles in search of his son.
In 2015, the story of Guo Gangtang's search for his son was put on the screen. After the release of the "anti-trafficking" theme film "Orphans", it attracted the attention of the outside world to families looking for relatives.
In July 2021, Guo Xinzhen, who had been kidnapped for 24 years, was successfully found. According to the Ministry of Public Security, two criminal suspects, Hu and Tang, who abducted Guo Xinzhen in 1997, returned to Henan, and Hu later trafficked Guo Xinzhen. Hu was suspected of participating in three child abduction cases. He was also sentenced to three years in prison for theft in 1988 and eight months in 1996 for extortion.
On July 7, 2023, the first instance of the abduction case of Guo Gangtang’s son was held by the Intermediate People’s Court of Liaocheng City, Shandong Province.
The Liaocheng People’s Procuratorate alleged that between 1997 and 1998, the defendants Hu Fuji and Tang Lixia abducted Guo Gangtang’s son Guo Xinzhen and other four children for the purpose of selling; in 2001, Hu Fuji collaborated with others (handled in a separate case) for the purpose of selling For the purpose of abducting a child, the two persons should be held criminally responsible for the crime of child abduction.
[Source: Jiupai News Comprehensive CCTV News, Yangtze River Cloud News, Yangtze Evening News]
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