Chinese obstetrician Zhang Shuxia abducted seven babies after telling their parents they had serious diseases
Caught: Obstetrician Zhang Shuxia has been linked to more than 50 baby thefts
Caught: Obstetrician Zhang Shuxia has been linked to more than 50 baby thefts
A doctor has been sentenced to death for stealing new-born babies and selling them to child traffickers in China.
Obstetrician Zhang Shuxia was found guilty of abducting seven babies after telling their parents they had serious diseases and convinced them to give them up, a court revealed.
The death penalty imposed by a court in Fuping, Shaanxi province, was suspended for two years and could be commuted to life imprisonment.
But police are still probing 50 other cases of baby-stealing, with 26 linked to Zhang.
A pair of twins were also involved in the seven baby-thefts and sold to child traffickers between November 2011 and July 2013, the Weinan Intermediate People’s Court posted on it’s blog-site.
Zhang Shuxia - A Chinese former obstetrician, is escorted by two police officers in Weinan Intermediate People's Court in Weinan, north China's Shaanxi province
Six of the babies were rescued, but tragically one baby girl had died.
The court said:”Zhang used her position as medical personnel to fabricate reports about the infants, saying they suffered from birth defects or diseases that were hard to cure.
“She abducted and sold several new-born infants, violating professional and social ethics.”
Several other suspects were in criminal detention, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Four other officials from the hospital are on trial for suspected dereliction of duty and are awaiting sentencing.
China’s strict population control policies, couples can only have one child, with parents preferring strong healthy baby boys.
But earlier this month, China relaxed the country’s one-child policy to allow couples to have two children if either parent was an only child.
Source: Daily Mail
Obstetrician Zhang Shuxia was found guilty of abducting seven babies after telling their parents they had serious diseases and convinced them to give them up, a court revealed.
The death penalty imposed by a court in Fuping, Shaanxi province, was suspended for two years and could be commuted to life imprisonment.
But police are still probing 50 other cases of baby-stealing, with 26 linked to Zhang.
A pair of twins were also involved in the seven baby-thefts and sold to child traffickers between November 2011 and July 2013, the Weinan Intermediate People’s Court posted on it’s blog-site.
Zhang Shuxia - A Chinese former obstetrician, is escorted by two police officers in Weinan Intermediate People's Court in Weinan, north China's Shaanxi province
Six of the babies were rescued, but tragically one baby girl had died.
The court said:”Zhang used her position as medical personnel to fabricate reports about the infants, saying they suffered from birth defects or diseases that were hard to cure.
“She abducted and sold several new-born infants, violating professional and social ethics.”
Several other suspects were in criminal detention, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Four other officials from the hospital are on trial for suspected dereliction of duty and are awaiting sentencing.
China’s strict population control policies, couples can only have one child, with parents preferring strong healthy baby boys.
But earlier this month, China relaxed the country’s one-child policy to allow couples to have two children if either parent was an only child.
Source: Daily Mail
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