Posted on 04/06/2009 9:00:20 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Chinese Hunger for Sons Fuels Boys’ Abductions
By ANDREW JACOBS
SHENZHEN, China — The thieves often strike at dusk, when children are playing outside and their parents are distracted by exhaustion.
Deng Huidong lost her 9-month-old son in the blink of an eye as a man yanked him from the grip of his 7-year-old sister near the doorway of their home. The car did not even stop as a pair of arms reached out the window and grabbed the boy.
Sun Zuo, a gregarious 3 1/2-year-old, was lured off by someone with a slice of mango and a toy car, an abduction that was captured by police surveillance cameras.
Peng Gaofeng was busy with customers when a man snatched his 4-year-old son from the plaza in front of his shop as throngs of factory workers enjoyed a spring evening. “I turned away for a minute, and when I called out for him he was gone,” Mr. Peng said.
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Ping!
Ah man thats so sad.
/johnny
Poor little Chinese boys.
Poor little Chinese girls.
“...Chinese Hunger for Sons Fuels Boys’ Abductions...”
Oh My God! The Chinese are now eating male babies!
Ok, silly. Ha ha ha. How’d you feel if your toddler son was stolen?
At least the boys get to live.
Geez, good luck trying to find your kid in a country of 1.3 billion people!!
Anybody worried about when all those sons have hungers of their own?
Yup. Some of the latest estimates for the coming generation of babies being born now have the ratio at 130 men to 100 women.
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