China’s one-child policy has led to a shortage of females that baby kidnappers
are ruthlessly exploiting, forcing authorities to launch a nation-wide DNA
database to help resolve identification of missing children, a news report said
on Sunday. Thousands of parents across China have been
forced to resort to a mass campaign by
signing up to a website whose name means “baby come home”. They have posted
details of their missing children on the social website, defying authorities
instinctive move to suppress such a campaign.
According to China’s public security ministry, between 2,000 and 3,000
children and young women are kidnapped every year, but the state-controlled
newspapers have put the figure as high as 20,000, The Times daily reported.
The ministry was forced to launch a nation-wide DNA database to help resolve
identification of missing children.
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