People smuggling is a major problem in China, and some instances have resulted in a public outcry after being exposed.
In recent years, child abductions have featured more strongly in popular traditions, and state advertising gave Yu’s case extensive protection.
When a person she sold for less than US$ 350 in 1995 reported her experiences to the police, her crimes became well known in 2022.
Yang Niuhua, who is now in her 30s, found her natural families had now passed away while searching for her baby family on social media.
Yu was detained the following season, and he was first given the death penalty for trafficking 11 children in September 2023.
The court determined that there was enough further evidence to convict her of trafficking another six during her charm.
In general, Yu kidnapped them in southwest China and sold them through brokers to people a few kilometers farther north.
State press reported in October that she sold her own child while experiencing “financial problems” years ago.
According to state media, some of Yu’s victims had melancholy and some families eventually split up as a result of the psychological strain.
Although rights groups claim that the death penalty executes thousands of people that annually, China classified the data as a state secret.
In recent years, there have been a number of well-known human smuggling circumstances in China.
In southeast Jiangsu state, a court sentenced six persons to trafficking a woman found chained in a dirt-floor house in 2023.
A cultural preference for boys for decades, which has caused many Chinese families to buy or abandon unintended baby girls, has been a result of the one-child policy.
From 2021, China began allowing all communities to have two children in 2016 and three children in 2020.