In China, the most serious criminal exploitation is the crime of abducting and trafficking of women and children. Chinese law enforcement records show that many women are abducted and trafficked to jurisdictions outside China, especially to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao.
Cause of Crime
- In these poor, rural areas, the buyers/man (future husband) are often cadres of the villages, buying because they want to get either a son or a wife. This cooperation between the buyers and the cadres creates a false impression that to buy an abducted woman to be one’s wife is approved or recognized by the state. Even the local police will close their eyes, because buyers are usually their relatives or good friends.
- That there are markets for selling swindled or abducted women or children. It is known in China that men in poor, remote countryside are sometimes unable to get wives either because:
- Women are trying to escape from their poverty by seeking a better life elsewhere
- Women from other rich areas do not want to go to those poor areas. In this situation, abducted women become the best source to get a wife.
3. Their ignorance of the relevant laws and regulations, the buyers believe that they are also victims if their purchased wives or sons are rescued and taken away from them.
4. The lenient treatment to buyer based on criminal law provides punishment for those who purchase women and children, as that there some understanding buyers are also victims in certain aspects.
5. In one case, criminals used written contracts and accordance with Chinese Civil Law Principles and the Contract Law, the gift giver (seller in fact) and gift receiver (buyer in fact) both agree to formulate this contract, and nobody can modify or cancel this contract unless it has been done in accordance with the relevant provisions of these laws.
6. Abducting and trafficking in women and children can generate takings equivalent to 1 year’s income in some poor areas, because there is a high demand from the buyers, criminals have a strong motivation to commit this kind of crime again and again.
7. Most of the victims were not highly educated. As a result, they were easily deceived and persuaded to go with strangers.
8. The Chinese policy of one child per family and the Chinese cultural preference for male children have created a scarcity of women. That means that the fewer women who live in a country, the more the cost of getting a wife goes up, as does the price of getting sex partners.
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