According to CCTV news, the Guizhou Provincial High Court recently made a second-instance ruling on Yu Huaying’s child abduction case and remanded it for retrial.
The court held that the original judgment omitted the other criminal facts of child abduction and trafficking of the defendant Yu Huaying in the original trial, and some facts were unclear. In order to find out all the criminal facts of the appellant Yu Huaying, a retrial should be carried out.
The case was pronounced in the first instance by the Intermediate Court of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province on September 18, 2023. After trial, it was found that the defendant Yu Huaying, together with Gong Mouliang (deceased), abducted and trafficked a total of 11 children in Guizhou Province, Chongqing City and other places from 1993 to 1996. His behavior has constituted the crime of child trafficking. The crime is particularly serious and extremely harmful to society and should be severely punished. Defendant Yu Huaying was sentenced to death at first instance for child abduction, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property. The defendant Yu Huaying appealed in court.
On November 28, 2023, the second instance of the case was held. After the trial, the procuratorial organ found that the appellant Yu Huaying was also suspected of abducting children in Yunnan Province after a preliminary investigation by the public security organs, and the omitted crimes were not dealt with. This is a comprehensive and comprehensive case. To combat crime accurately and effectively and protect the defendant's right to appeal in accordance with the law, it is recommended that this case be remanded for retrial.
According to a previous report by the Xiaoxiang Morning News, prosecutors had previously charged Yu Huaying with eight trafficking cases, involving 11 abducted children. Yang Niuhua is one of the abducted children.
Yang Niuhua was born in Zhijin County, Guizhou Province in 1990, and then came to Guiyang to live with her parents and sister. Yang Niuhua remembered her abduction experience. She wrote on her personal social platform: "Back then, the traffickers rented a house next door to my house and pretended to be a struggling couple with their children. They often came to our house to borrow dishes and chopsticks and talked to us. After we got acquainted with each other, she set the time for my parents to go to work. As soon as my parents left the house, she took me away and never sent me back. She took the green leather train from Guizhou and sold me to Hebei. Handan."
"She wants to sell it for 2,500 yuan. I am a girl and it is difficult to sell. She was very irritable when she was washing my hair and poured the boiling water in the thermos directly on my head." Yang Niuhua said that after being introduced by the middleman, She was bribed by an old man.
According to media reports, Yang Niuhua was adopted as a daughter by a deaf-mute man and changed her name to Li Suyan. Yang Niuhua started searching for her relatives in 2012. It was not until May 2021 that Yang Niuhua's video of searching for her relatives was seen by her cousin in her hometown in Guizhou. She returned home after being abducted for 26 years. But Yang Niuhua later learned that her parents who loved her had passed away in 1997 and 1998 because they blamed themselves and were too sad after she was abducted. They were both in their thirties at the time. Yang Niuhua's sister Yang Sangying was orphaned at the age of 11 and went out to work at the age of 13. Yang Niuhua always remembered the information about the human trafficker who abducted her. In 2022, she approached the Guiyang police and provided clues. After that, the Guiyang police arrested the human trafficker Yu Huaying.
Yang Niuhua said that as a victim, she hopes that Yu Huaying will be sentenced as early as possible, and she hopes that during the second investigation, More abducted children can be rescued.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Zhou Lingru
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