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. sentenced the defendant Hu Fuji to death for the crime of child abduction, with a two-year suspended sentence. Deprived of political rights for life, and all personal property shall be confiscated, and the defendant Hufuji shall be 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 sentence was ordered The defendants Hu Fuji and Tang Lixia jointly compensated the plaintiff for material losses of more than 500,000 yuan in the incidental civil lawsuit..
The court found that between 1997 and 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.
24 Years of Searching for Children: Riding alone across thousands of miles of rivers and mountains
According to previous reports by Xinhua News Agency, the Ministry of Public Security held a press conference on July 13, 2021. Tong Bishan, deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, introduced at the meeting that recently, the Ministry of Public Security's technical comparison team issued an order after discovering clues. Public security agencies in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and other places worked closely and worked hard to successfully recover the movie " Guo Xinzhen (male, 26 years old, originally from Liaocheng, Shandong Province), the prototype of the abducted child in "Lost Orphan", and followed the investigation to capture two criminal suspects, a man and a woman, who abducted Guo Xinzhen.
After hearing the news, Andy Lau, the star of the movie "The Orphan", also recorded a video to express his blessings.
According to CCTV News, on July 11, 2021, the public security organs of Shandong and Henan held family recognition ceremonies for Guo Gangtang and Guo Xinzhen’s family in Liaocheng, Shandong Province. The family that had been separated for 24 years was finally reunited. At the reunion, the family hugged each other tightly.
According to Xinhua News Agency, on September 21, 1997, in a rural village in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, 27-year-old Guo Gangtang had been married for three years and had a son, Guo Xinzhen, who was 2 years, 5 months and 17 days old. Because they drive a tractor for transportation, Guo Gangtang's family's economic conditions are relatively good in the village.
He finished his work that day and was quite happy after making dozens of yuan. But when he came home, he saw hundreds of people gathered at the door. "At that time, my heart skipped a beat, wondering if my kid had an accident." , then an old man came over and held my hand and said that Guo Xinzhen had been abducted by human traffickers and asked me not to worry and to find a way to find the child quickly."
After that, Guo Gangtang began his 24-year search for his son . In the 24 years, He was riding a motorcycle alone, with a missing person notice printed with his son's photo on the back of the motorcycle. He traveled to Heilongjiang in the north and Hainan in the south, covering most provinces in China.
On March 20, 2015, the movie "Lost Orphan" starring Andy Lau was released. The film tells the story that in 1998, Lei Zekuan's two-year-old son Lida was lost, and Lei Zekuan began his journey to find his son. The prototype of the protagonist in the movie "Lost Orphan" is Guo Gangtang, a citizen of Liaocheng..
Justice is not absent
Two "human traffickers" were finally arrested after 24 years
According to CCTV News in 2021, Li Min, director of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Shandong Provincial Public Security Department, introduced that after the abduction of Guo Xinzhen in September 1997, the Shandong Liaocheng Public Security Bureau The agency immediately set up a special task force to carry out the work. Due to the constraints of the conditions at the time, the case was not solved in time.
When DNA technology began to be used in anti-trafficking work in 2000, the public security organs promptly collected the DNA information of Guo Gangtang and his wife and put it into the database for comparison. With the development of technology, their DNA data was supplemented and improved many times. However, it is regrettable that because of the child Guo Xinzhen's DNA information has never been collected before, so he has been unable to be compared for many years.
Li Min introduced that after the Ministry of Public Security deployed the "Reunion" operation that year (2021), the Shandong Public Security Bureau organized forces to reorganize key cases and carry out investigations in accordance with the requirements of the operation. At the same time, during the Ministry of Public Security's comparison battle, the cases were promptly reported The information was reported to the battle expert group and resources from across the country were pooled to carry out the attack. In mid-June 2021, new progress was made in the case. The whereabouts of suspected Guo Xinzhen was discovered in Henan. conducted DNA comparison through blood collection, and finally confirmed Guo Xinzhen's identity .
The police followed the circumstances surrounding Guo Xinzhen’s adoption. Through careful interviews and in-depth investigation, determined that Hu (male, 56 years old, from Henan) was the suspect in the case. is now being detained on suspicion of another case. At a detention center in Shanxi.
After being interrogated, Hu was seriously afraid of crime and refused to explain. The task force carried out further investigation around his related persons, and found through analysis and judgment that his then-girlfriend Tang Mou (female, 45 years old, from Shandong) was suspected of committing a major crime. The public security agency arrested Tang Mou somewhere in Shanxi.
After interrogation, Tang confessed to the crime of abducting Guo Xinzhen with Hu in September 1997. In the face of a large amount of evidence, Hu finally pleaded guilty and truthfully confessed the facts of the crime.
Preliminary investigation showed that in 1997, Hu and Tang met and fell in love. In September, they planned to kidnap and sell a boy for financial gain while traveling in Shandong together. On September 21, the two fled to Liaocheng, Shandong. Hu was waiting near the bus station. Tang went out to look for the target of the crime. took Guo Xinzhen, who was playing alone in front of the house, away from him, and then took a long-distance bus back to Henan with Hu. is sold by Hu Mou general Guo Xinzhen and .
editor | Duan Lian Du Bo
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