Chinese Children Abused - Forced to Beg for Money

Four years ago, 8-year-old Ren Fangfang was taken away from her father for 5000 yuan by Mengtang Village "acrobatic troupe" boss Zhai Xuefeng to "learn acrobatics".

Once she left, she was gone for 3 years. During this time, the Ren family also received a lump sum of 10,000 yuan cash. One night last year, Fangfang was dressed orderly and delivered back to her family. It wasn't until the next day that Ren Shangtian discovered that she was missing two large clumps of her hair, that her entire body was covered with scars, that her ears, nose, and tongue had been abused, that there is "a large bulge" on her lower back.

It turns out that during her three years away, Fangfang was forced onto the streets to beg, and if she could not meet her goals she would face beatings. "Used a belt to hit me. Used a nail to prick my hand, until it bled; Picked me up and threw me on the ground, used scissors to cut my ears, nose, and tongue; Also had me eat feces..."

After Fangfang with a body covered with scars returned, Ren Shangtian took her to the hospital for a check-up and upon discovering that there are already aftereffects [emotional trauma] left on the child, he went to find Zhai Xuefeng where he got 22,000 yuan as compensation and even signed an agreement.

How could he bear to let his 4-year-old Fangfang go "learn acrobatics"? Ren Shangtian helplessly said that their family is poor, that sending his child out to "learn acrobatics" was to lesson the burden. As for the 37,000 yuan of money that was obtained through Fangfang, Ren Shangtian says it has already all been spent.

Most of the above description for this video is from an earlier, longer article available on QQ which also has over 2000 comments. This video also currently appears at the top of the special Youku page dedicated to the continuing Chinese netizen campaign to rescue child beggars that we reported earlier this month.

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/videos/4-year-old-daughter-rented-out-comes-ba...

In February of 2011, news spread across Chinese websites and BBS forums about cases of child kidnapping in Anhui province. These cases were a bit more brutal than what's often reported in the Chinese media — in some cases, kidnapped children had been splashed with acid or otherwise disfigured to make them look more sympathetic as beggars — but the kidnapping of children is in no way uncommon in China, nor is it limited to Anhui.

In fact, tens of thousands of children — estimates vary — are kidnapped in China each year. Some, like the children in February's Anhui case, are sold into lives on the street. Many are lucky enough to be sold to "adoptive" families who raise them as regular children. Still others, mostly older children, are sold into marriage, prostitution, or slave labor.



http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/announcements/child-kidnappings-in-anhui-chine...

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