What's crime of trafficking in children's verdict?

According to Article 240th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), crime of trafficking in children was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and fined; Under any of the following circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to death and his property shall be confiscated:

(a) The head of a child trafficking ring;

(2) Kidnapping three or more children;

(3) Kidnapping children by violence, coercion or anesthesia for the purpose of selling;

(4) Stealing infants and young children for the purpose of selling;

(5) Causing serious injury, death or other serious consequences to the abducted children or their relatives;

(6) selling children abroad.

Child abduction refers to one of the acts of abducting, kidnapping, buying, selling and picking up children for the purpose of selling.

Crime of trafficking in children's Subjective Elements

Crime of trafficking in children is subjectively intentional. Most of its purposes are to adopt abducted children as their own children; Do not rule out that some are for their use and slavery; Some are abducted because they like children very much. In fact, most abductees are childless people who want to adopt abducted children as their own children.

Subjectively, these people don't want to hurt their children, but their extremely selfish behavior has caused serious trauma to the hearts of deceived children, caused great mental pain to their parents and other relatives, and threatened the normal life order of the masses. Therefore, the social harmfulness of the crime of abducting and selling children, regardless of its motive and purpose, can not be ignored and should be given due punishment.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-crime of trafficking in children