More than 600 people have been arrested and nearly 200 children rescued as cops raided two suspected child-trafficking gangs which operated in ten provinces acrosss China as reported by BBC News:
Critics blame China's one-child policy and lax adoption laws, which they say have created a thriving underground market for buying children. * * * Families may also buy trafficked women and children to use as extra labour and household servants, as well as brides for unmarried sons.
Meanwhile, China has executed Wang Ziqi, the madam of the Bright Spot Teahouse in Chongqing's grimy Yuzhong district, for violently enslaving hundreds of women to work as prostitutes as reported by Malcolm Moore for The Telegraph: "Ms Wang, who ran the brothel with her sister, Wang Wanning, was also reputed to be the mistress of Wen Qiang, the 55-year-old deputy police commissioner and justice bureau chief who was secretly also one of the city's most powerful mafia godfathers."
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