Devastated Parents: Chinese Gov’t Running Infant Abduction Racket for Profit and Population Control
- Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:25pm by
Dave Urbanski
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Infant abduction for black-market profit is an awful reality in many countries—but government-sponsored infant abduction? Too totalitarian for today’s world?
Not according to some parents in Shaoyang, China—a remote, mountainous region in the Hunan province.
(New York Times)
A frightening story has surfaced in recent months that the Chinese government—partly to enforce its one-child-only law, partly for a money grab—routinely took infants from the arms of their impoverished parents when there wasn‘t enough cash in the cupboards to appease extortionists’ demands. These abducted infants, reports say, were often adopted outside China; the United States was supposedly a frequent destination.
Yang Libing's son holds a faded snapshot of a girl resembling his sister, Yang Ling, who this year turns seven years old. Chinese family planning officials seized her in 2005 and shipped her to an orphanage because Yang didn't pay so-called "social support compensation" for violating China's one-child policy. Yang Ling now lives in America. (Caixin)
The good news is that government-sponsored seizures have apparently diminished a great deal since 2006. The bad news is that it took an abducted eight-month-old boy’s severe injuries in a balcony fall (after his mother tangled with officials over him) to curtail the practice. The latest outcry, however, is that the Chinese government had been hard at work all these years keeping the whole sordid affair under wraps—not terribly surprising, what with the minor sticking point that its own laws forbid infant seizure, even when its Mom and Dad’s second child.
Outside the orphanage run by Shaoyang's welfare agency where abducted babies were held. (New York Times)
Want more shockers? A Chinese news organization, Caixin, somehow braved its land‘s chilling media clampdowns and uncovered the government’s purported role in the abductions with a lengthy expose last May 10. Six days later, Hillary Clinton’s favorite news outlet, Al Jazeera, posted its own story. The New York Times followed suit last week.
According to the Caixin article:
In some cases, child-selling revenues as well as social support compensation fees paid by Hunan parents who break one-child rules have become important sources of income for local governments in poor parts of the province.
Family planning agencies received less than 20 percent of the fees paid by Hunan‘s violating parents in 2004 and ’05, according to the provincial Family Planning Commission. Most of the money was used to cover general government expenses, government sources told Caixin.
The official line from China? Police recently reported rescuing 89 babies from child traffickers, and the deputy director of the Public Security Ministry condemned what he called the practice of “buying and selling children in this country,” according to the New York Times piece.
[Watch this video of Xiong Chao—dressed in the dark blue shirt and white shorts—whose fall from a family-planning office balcony is said to have ended the alleged government-sponsored infant abductions. He made it back from the clutches of Chinese officials but is mentally disabled from his 2006 injuries]:
More from the Times:
Zeng Dingbao, who leads the Inspection Bureau in Shaoyang, the city that administers Longhui County, has promised a diligent investigation. But signs point to a whitewash. In June, he told People’s Daily Online, the Web version of the Communist Party’s official newspaper, that the situation “really isn’t the way the media reported it to be, with infants being bought and sold.”
Rather than helping trace and recover seized children, parents say, the authorities are punishing those who speak out. Two of the most vocal fathers were detained for 15 days in Shaoyang on charges of soliciting prostitutes at a brothel. Released last month, the two men, Yang Libing, 47, and Zhou Yinghe, 34, said they had been entrapped.
Mr. Yang said he was constantly followed by government minders. Mr. Zhou said the village party secretary had warned him to stop talking to reporters about the abduction of his 3-month-old daughter in March 2003 or face more punishment. “They are like organized criminals,” Mr. Zhou said.
Yang Qinzheng cooks dinner with his two grandchildren; a third was abducted by Chinese family planning officials in 2005, he said, because his son hadn't registered his marriage. (New York Times)
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Comments (70)
BetterInformed
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:53pmSince we kill 1.5 million unborn annually Americans choose to adopt internationally. It cost about $10,000.00 to adopt from china. $3000.00 is paid directly to the orphanage director for the continued support of the thousands that remain the balance goes to travel, an American home study, INS fees and notarial fees. The majority of the children adopted from China are not infants and most have special needs, missing limbs, blindness, cranial facial abnormalities etc.
Report Post »This story is 6 years old and unverified. If you feel a need to be judgmental check out the BBC special “The Dieing Rooms” that should satisfy your need for ranting fodder.
momcani7
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:50pmHas anyone seen http://www.research-china.org???
Brian Stye is dedicated to telling the truth about the conditions the children live in.
He blogs CURRENT information…..no different than the story reported here.
Report Post »It does not matter that this story is 5 years old or 5 minutes old —the conditions for the poor, as in peasant Chinese families has not changed.
Hoosier Survival
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:55pmyou are very well informed…. however … the average cost has risen 30% this year for almost every international adoption due to the weak dollar. Yes the government cost’s but you have a week or more in the foreign country. you have food, you have flights in that country. In Russia you have multiple trips. average: $27,000 for an adoption. How much would it cost to have a child naturally without insurance in a hospital with all the bells and whistles we have here in the USA? 15 to 20k
Report Post »Hoosier Survival
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:29pmThe people are honorable. They are oppressed. They are held down. They cannot act or be free as we understand it to be. It is our responsibility to our fellow human to bring this evil another GOVERNMENT is doing to it’s people to light. It is we that are called to be a protector of ‘the least of these.‘ Please don’t take your personal frustrations of a corrupt government out on it’s people or beat down those that want to help. That is not who we are as a people. If it is becomeing that way here, we will be no better then the girl‘s we watched on Glenn’s TV show on FOX. The Mcdonald’s beating come to mind first. As we follow Glenn on his World Wide movement, we must be an example of what a free people can do for each other.
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Report Post »SpiderPig
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:08pmGlenn, Do you still think that the Chinese are honorable as you stated on your show a few weeks ago? Sorry, I about puked when I heard you say that. I worked for a Chinese company and I saw plenty of dishonorable things going on there.
Report Post »BetterInformed
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:33pmUnlike the stuff that happens here. Give us a break !
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:47pmEver try to contract for them ? They are the cheapest people on the planet. I don’t even waste my time pursuing their business anymore.
Report Post »psadie
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:26pmYes the Chinese are difficult to deal with. Keep one eye on them and one eye on what they are producing. It is a shame; too much angst in business with them.
Report Post »Mavrick2012
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 1:36amI’m pretty sure I have heard Glenn talk a few times about the Chinese shelter being held in Work orientated factory buildings with Bars covering the window so the ( Chinese slaves…yes slaves don’t commit suicide from being so oppressed ). I’m pretty sure if he said any thing of the kind, it was towards those he has standing by him on his road to Restoring Courage. Some Chinese aren’t blind to Soros. They were actually monitoring Soros before Beck was. Hell they wrote a Book on him as an Economic Terrorist.
Report Post »BlackAce41
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:46amGlenn was talking about the Chinese People not their Government>>>>their is a difference.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 3:27pmBeen there…Chinese people are generally the most intelligently devious, cunning and ruthless people on earth. They can be so convincing and attractive right before they slit your throat. America today is no match for these people….generally speaking, of course.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:08pmIsn’t this the desire of OUR government. State Capitalism (whatever the he!! that is.) I am trying to wrap my head around how people live this way. I mean EVERYBODY knows every intimate detail of your existence? I’d rather be dead.
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:41pmThere’s communism for you. When the government becomes god, the people become slaves. Take note.
Report Post »mrknite
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:35pmChina is friends of no one but China, and not even that! All China cares about it getting all they can at the expense of anyone or anything!
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:35pmI cannot believe there are still people that want to ge to china to adopt ? the money they need to adopt is nothing less then extortion, if they are so concwrned with their population why charge 20,000 to give a baby a loving home EXTORTION thats all they care about not the babies
Report Post »Hoosier Survival
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:21pmextortion yes. EVERY adoption can be considered extortion. Domestically or internationally. It is cost’s 40 to 60k to adopt domestically UNLESS you know the birth mother personally. You also run the risk of the birth mother changing her mind after the birth. So you as the adoptive parents invest emotion, time, money in a child you plan on calling your own to have the child pulled from your arms in the end? this sounds far fetched, but ….. well …. lets just say experience show’s otherwise. As Glenn so often say’s, read and verify.
Report Post »BetterInformed
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:48pmSince we kill 1.5 million unborn annually Americans choose to adopt internationally. It cost about $10,000.00 to adopt from china. $3000.00 is paid directly to the orphanage director for the continued support of the thousands that remain the balance goes to travel, an American home study, INS fees and notarial fees. The majority of the children adopted from China are not infants and most have special needs, missing limbs, blindness, cranial facial abnormalities etc.
Report Post »This story is 6 years old and unverified. If you feel a need to be judgmental check out the BBC special “The Dieing Rooms” that should satisfy your need for ranting fodder.
Richard Compton
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:15pmSadly this is of no suprise, in a society with no hope no god and nothing but the daily existance of more of the same. A government that doesn‘t care about it’s people, and if they see a way to make a profit off of too many of them so be it, is the order of the day! And we continue to build up their military machine by the purchase of products made in China, how stupid they must think we are and we’ll buy their unwanted to boot!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:10pm“worker’s paradise” Take not ying’uns….
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:02pmcoming soon to a country near you, when China takes over we will be in the same boat
Report Post »M 4 Colt
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:19pmNo when China takes over the U.S. they will wipe out all the Americans first to make room for all there people to move here because they have no plans to share with any of us so they will just kill us
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:00pmThere is no way in hell they would get their grimy mitts on my children. Momma grizzlies don’t put up with that.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:07pmLol! They don just ask politely. They’d get your kid. Trust me. You would be free to die in the intervention attempt, though.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:50pm@MODEL82A1, maybe so, but you missed the part of the story where one mother DID fight back and she got her baby. It’s a shame he was disabled because of the attempted abduction. However, NEVER underestimate a mother’s love for her child. Or a father’s love, either. A parent’s love knows no bounds nor any risks.
Good evening to you.
Report Post »beverlee
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:00pmI know several families who have adopted Chinese children through the years. How these children will wonder.
Report Post »K Chad Roberts
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:57pmThis one child policy is going to be a major issue for China in the future. An economy can only be stable if birthrates outpace death rates (or at least match). In 30-50 years, China’s economy will be absolutely devastated. Don’t believe me? look up the drastic measures countries like Japan have taken to increase birthrates. In Japans case, they’ve allowed cousins to marry and have kids (really desperate attempt).
Report Post »spirited
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:09pmThe new Obama (progressive)
birth-control-pills-for-everyone
is the first step to a US one-child-only program.
>Haven’t ya heard t.v. pundits say, “Besides, it’ll save so much money”!
Report Post »K Chad Roberts
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:44pmThe backlash from the American public against that type of government control reach would be severe. I hope that something like the one child policy doesn’t take hold here… but alas, the individual mandate made it didn’t it?
Report Post »caseydog27
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:47pmSo true, I read a great piece on this a year or so ago and cant recall who wrote it right now. I wonder sometimes if that is part of the reason no one will address the immigration issue, I know the other is a voting block so they think. The reality is without a constant supply of workers to support the infrastructure it will fall apart.
Report Post »Cyhort
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:54pmAnd this is the country we keep putting ourselves in debt to. Gotta love how we still have our strong, principled leaders!
Oh, wait….
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:52pmGovernment regulations and state planning. Sounds like a page right out of Cass Sunsteins book.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:59pmwhat about the CPS in USA ?
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/cps-warrior-nancy-schaefer-gunned-down/
MODEL82A1
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:01pmCass Sunstein? An influence on Chinese policy? Are you serious? Turn off the Glenn Beck for a minute.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:43pmYep, that’s China. The Chinese men can‘t find wives because of ratio of men to women and now they’re exporting the girls for profit. Yep, that’s China…. female children are not wanted. How stupid can a Country be? Oh, that’s right… we voted Hope and Change Obama into office.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:56pmand we barrow money from China…….
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:11pm@RepubliCorp
Report Post »Yep, China has a AA- rating, we had a AAA rating and we had to borrow from them?
How is it that a AAA Country has to borrow from a AA- Country? Something is very wrong with this picture.
AngelThree
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 8:17pmChinese men can’t find wives…? Just wait until we see the Chicom Imperial Fleet off of all three Coast Lines…. They will have their pick when they move in to “Protect” their Investment…..
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:00pm@AngelThree
Report Post »By that time all the lonely Chinese men will be gay and that’s just not allowed in Chicom land. They will have bigger problems than they ever planned for when 80% of their male population has to turn gay to find a lover! The Chinese are all about “saving face” and they would never let Americans see a boat load of gay Chinese men with guns come gayly dancing off of one of their warships.
heyjms
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:43pmThey would have to kill me first to get my child.
Report Post »PASSIONFORCHRIST
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:42pmThese people need to know the true nature of family planning( planned parenthood) in disguise!!
Report Post »jonnyfontain
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:40pmThese poor people! Good Lord if the United States tried to abduct my child they would .23 cents in the back of the head. For all of you who don’t know what that is its a bullet.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:38pmWhere’s the United Nations? Isn’t this a serious violation of human righs. Communist China cares more about acquiring resources like oil.cobalt, and copper than it does its workers,and their child. Control, Control, Control!
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:53pmThe United Nations doesn’t care if China does this kind of thing. If it happened here they would be all over it.
Report Post »psadie
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:30pmThe UN??? The UN can’t fight its way out of a paper bag; let alone tell China what to do.
Report Post »DarkFire
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:36pmcomming to city near you. they are just perfecting it before they come here for their money and out kids. hope you all speak ting tong won, and you were worried about uncle adolf back in the day, these folks here are alot worse!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:36pmChinese communists abusing their citizens,say it aint so.It is an improvement from Mao though he only murdered 35 million Chinese.And we’re in debt to these godless heathen up to our eyeballs.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:36pmWhat a lovely communist country. I believe people like Al Gore wouldn’t mind this kind of population control. Watch out people. Socialism leads to Communism. Its all about control to bring about their Eutopia.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:34pmThey will be the enemy of the future. All the signs are there, plus they are hacking our defense and other computer systems in the hundreds to thousands of hits daily and getting a lot of secrets. Time to start letting your local Chinese Restaurant on the corner that numba’ 12 on the menu is the ” we will kicka’ you azz American roll!”
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:08pmThe hacking of our computer systems needs to stop ASAP. Why don’t we just cut the Internet connections with China until they learn to behave? I’m serious, just cut the connections!
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:12pmI’m no computer expert, but I don‘t think it’s that easy, lol. But we do need to get some extreme computer geeks of our own to counter this espionage and possible act of war.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:32pmThey have alot in common with our government just ours is not using infants to abduct
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 9:22pmyet.
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