Chapter Twenty-Seven: No Progress
Later, we returned the little boy to his parents and sent the traffickers to the police station for temporary detention.
Dada's parents were so grateful to us that we learned that the boy was not their biological child when we chatted with them. It was the orphans they adopted in the orphanage.
The name of this orphan in the orphanage is Wu Xuesheng. His parents thought the name was bad and would make people think that it was a child without parents. So he changed his name to Zhao Da, with the same surname as his adoptive father, nicknamed Dada.
(Hearing this, I thought in my heart: Later, it was Wu Xuesheng, who was only 16 years old, who killed his father who killed his mother.) )
Then we brought the woman who trafficked the boy into the interrogation room and asked me to accompany the interrogation.
"Name, age, place of origin."
"Liao Hongmei, 39 years old, from H City, Y Province."
"Why child trafficking?"
"Eat to make money. Abducting and selling children is very simple, give them a few candies to eat and they will easily follow you. ”
"Where is the trafficking going?"
"This ......"
"Please be frank and lenient, and tell us the truth, there is only good, not bad."
"Trafficking far away from the local area, or trafficking to Vietnam......
"Why do you want to be trafficked to those places?"
"Because there are a lot of rich people in those places. Isn't it the reform and opening up, many people have gone to the coastal side to make money, and those rich people who can't have children give a lot of money. And there are a lot of stupid rural people in between, who have to ask for a boy, and they will ask us for a child to buy it. ”
"Tell us if you have a criminal gang. Do you have an intermediary who takes the trafficked children from you and sells them through them? ”
"Well...... Comrade policeman, if I say it, can you reduce my sentence? ”
"Presumptuous! Telling the truth is what you should do! Is there any reason for abducting and selling children? ”
"Okay, okay, I said, I said. We do have a superior, but I don't know him! Anyway, when I first started in this industry, someone asked me to do it, and I didn't want to do it, but he told me that if I did it well, I would have a lot of money to make. ”
"Who told you to do it? How did he get in touch with you? Why are you called? ”
"Hmm...... It was a man, and he came to us to ask. I specifically look for those of us in the countryside, especially women, because women are better at deceiving children. Then he told us that if we kidnapped a child, we could give a bonus, and if we trafficked more, we could give more money. But ......"
"But what?"
"But we had to leave the trafficked child in his hands, and he told us that there were people above him who were in charge of him. They have a big network of people who need children, even in many cities and villages in China, and people who want to buy children come to them. ”
"What do those who want children rely on to contact them?"
"Comrade policeman, I really don't know much about this......"
"Do you and your 'peers' usually work together on joint projects?"
"No, no, no, this is our taboo. The man told us to do it separately from the others, otherwise it would be easy to be discovered. And it is better to bring the child directly to him after the abduction, and he will deal with the rest. ”
"Can you still contact this man?"
"Well...... Can be ......"
"If you help us catch him, it will definitely give you a big reduction in sentence. I'm here to assure you. ”
"Hey, that's good, that's good. In fact, our way to contact him is very simple, generally if there is a child in hand, you can take the child directly to an old place to find him...... It's what we call a 'transit point'. Take the child over, give it to him, and you're done. ”
Later, according to this woman's words, we targeted a city not far from S City, which is very remote, but it happens to be a small station along the way of the train to other provinces. Every time they catch a child here, they take them there to "pay off" for money.
We immediately went to the place, and with the help of the woman, a small hotel in the place managed to catch the man described in her mouth.
After understanding us, we learned that the suspect's methods are very cunning. They would have spent some money in this place to open a small inn. However, this inn is hardly open on weekdays, and is only used as a "transit point" for trading children.
The abducted children will be brought here and handed over to the man they call "Brother Missing". He would then deliver the children to his superiors, but instead of the train, they would choose trucking.
The children were first seduced with anesthetics, and then they were taken by truck to a place very far away from here, waiting for another superior to fight them. These are all the jobs of "Brother Missing", he only needs to do some publicity work and scheduling work here, and he can get a lot of money.
This once again plunged the otherwise clear case into a fog. Because "Brother Missing" can't find out who his so-called superior is, he is just an inconspicuous middleman, and the person who really directly contacts and buys the child is the person we need to find the most.
So the clue is broken again here.
But now we at least know how their group works. Moreover, in terms of scope, this is an extremely broad gang, and their span even reaches the trafficking trade between China and abroad. It's not hard to imagine how huge the hand that manipulates it all behind your back.
"Less than a year or two went by, and there was no progress in our case. And even if we have some important human evidence and clues in our hands, we still can't learn more in that era of lack of information. The teacher looked at me, his frown still not lowered.
"But there is one thing that is more or less gratifying to us. That is, since this 'missing brother' was arrested by us, we still learned a lot of traces of local traffickers from them, so we took advantage of the situation to launch a large number of arrests, and arrested a lot of rampant human traffickers at that time. The number of trafficking cases in S City has also begun to decrease significantly, and it has gradually decreased to zero. ”
After talking for so long, the teacher seemed to feel a little tired, and he got up from his chair and moved his body.