"...it made the selling of their children less bothersome..."

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by DaShi
Human trafficking is still rather common in China. The girls will most likely be sold as wives in rural areas, while the boys can look forward to life a begging, sometimes after suffering an "accident" to increase sympathy.

I was surprised by the number of murder cases that I heard about in Hangzhou alone. Most were robberies where the robber decided to leave no witnesses since the penalty for either crime would have been the same.

But I'm curious as to how they knew the children were sold, if no information about them was given.

Probably because she told them (the police) who informed the press. It's in the article, just not the details of where the kids went.

[The Mad Monk]

Apparently she was pretty chatty about the whole thing, she probably told them.

[DaShi]

Ah, missed that. They should have said, "No further information was given." Australians.

[Winston]

(Obligatory),

Like this couldn't have happened in the U.S. or any country other than the People's Republic.

[AnnC]

Originally posted by DaShi
I was surprised by the number of murder cases that I heard about in Hangzhou alone. Most were robberies where the robber decided to leave no witnesses since the penalty for either crime would have been the same.

This illustrates why it's a bad idea to impose the death penalty for any crime other than murder. If the criminal has already committed one capital crime (in this case, robbery), he has nothing to lose by commiting another capital crime, murder.

You can construct game-theoretic models of these situations and demonstrate mathematically that the death penalty does more harm than good when used for any crime other than murder.

Originally posted by Winston
Like this couldn't have happened in the U.S. or any country other than the People's Republic.

True, actually. China's one-child policy has produced skewed sex ratios in rural areas and that in turn has created a "market" for wives. It appears that this women decided to use her "entrepreneurial" skills to sell product in those markets.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Winston
(Obligatory),

Like this couldn't have happened in the U.S. or any country other than the People's Republic.

actually this did happen in the U.S. a few days ago. A guy tried to sell his baby to pay for renovations of his house.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Dis


actually this did happen in the U.S. a few days ago. A guy tried to sell his baby to pay for renovations of his house.

Yep, he needed the money to finish renovating the nursery.

[GhengisFarb™]

My Chinese/English translation isn't that good. Are we sure she said "Killing a person is no different than killing a chicken," and not "people taste kinda like chicken?"

I mean the taste like chicken line is a fairly common one, so that's no big deal right?

[Dis]

how can everything taste like chicken? If everything tastes like chicken, why aren't we eating that instead of chicken.

Nothing tastes like chicken. that's why we eat chicken.

Chicken rules.

[Dr Strangelove]

There's a problem with her statement comparing killing people with killing chickens. She killed the people with poison. Would anyone kill a chicken, which one normally does for the purpose of eating it, by poisoning it? Maybe her problem is that she ate too many poisoned chickens and suffered brain damage.

Memo to the Chinese: Chickens can be easily killed by picking them up and snapping their necks. There is no reason to poison them. Eating poisoned chicken may be deleterious to your health, physical and mental.

[Gibsie]

It's a new variant of biird flu that turns people into insane killers!

I warned everyone this would happen, but you all thought I was mad...