Beijing, February 28 – A Chinese woman convicted of abducting and trafficking 17 children over a ten-year period was executed on Friday in Guiyang, located in southwest China's Guizhou province.
Yu Huaying, 62, was found guilty of orchestrating child trafficking operations alongside accomplices, spanning multiple regions including Guizhou, Chongqing, and Yunnan, between 1993 and 2003.
The execution was carried out by the Guiyang Intermediate People's Court after her death sentence was upheld by the Supreme People's Court, according to reports from state-run Xinhua news agency.
Yu had been sentenced to death on October 25, 2024, by the Guiyang Intermediate People's Court. The ruling also mandated the confiscation of her personal property and the lifelong revocation of her political rights.
Her arrest in 2022 was triggered by a complaint from Yang Niuhua, one of Yu’s victims. Yang was abducted in Guizhou and sold in Hebei in 1995 for 2,500 Yuan (approximately USD 343).
China has long struggled with organized child trafficking, where gangs abduct children and sell them to childless couples or force them into begging and criminal activities. The execution of Yu underscores the country’s continued crackdown on such crimes.