A woman victim at the centre of one of China’s most serious serial kidnap cases in recent years has finally had her day in court at proceedings which heard that her biological parents had died young because of their ordeal.
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Yang Niuhua was born in 1990 in a village in Zhijin county of Guizhou province in southwestern China.
She was kidnapped by Yu Huaying, now 61, who lived next door to her in November 1995, the China National Radio reported.
She was sold to a family in rural Handan in the northern province of Hebei about 2,000 km away from Guizhou.
Besides Yang, Yu abducted a total of 17 children from 12 families across China in the 1990s, according to the Guiyang Intermediate People’s Court in Guizhou.
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