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Chained Woman in China Was Sold as a Bride Twice l ION International ✅ IF YOU LIKE AND LOVE THIS VIDEO PLEASE SUBSCRIBE OUR CHANNEL. 🌐subscribe here :----------------------------------- https://www.youtube.com/IONInternational ✅ fb page: https://www.facebook.com/ioninternational ✅ website: https://ioninternational.blogspot.com Chained Woman in China Was Sold as a Bride Twice Officials give details of the woman’s plight at the hands of human traffickers, responding to online anger Responding to online anger set off by footage of a woman in chains, authorities in eastern China said they found that human traffickers had sold the woman in the late 1990s, not to one, but two prospective husbands. For almost a month, views of posts about the chained woman have topped billions a day on China’s internet, rivaling interest in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and forcing attention on a practice the country has long tried to stamp out: the trafficking of women as brides. The emergence in January of the video clip, which shows the woman, a mother of eight, chained in a shed without a door, quickly led to speculation online that she was treated so poorly because she was a “bought wife.” Local officials initially denied that this was the case, but authorities later said they had taken into custody a married couple on suspicions of human trafficking, saying the wife of the couple had taken the woman to Jiangsu province from her home in China’s south. On Wednesday, Jiangsu provincial authorities said that the couple were convicted human traffickers who had spent several years in prison in the 2000s and that they were now under arrest. The most recent statement confirmed lower-level authorities’ findings that the woman was from a village in Yunnan province in China’s south and that her name was Xiaohuamei—a name that means Little Plum Blossom. Her husband, identified by his surname, Dong, has been arrested on suspicions of abuse. The statement contained new details, including that Xiaohuamei on arrival in Jiangsu had first been sold for purposes of marriage to a different man for 5,000 yuan in early 1998, or around $790 under current exchange rates. Within a few months, however, she vanished, the statement said, prompting the buyer to demand 2,000 yuan in compensation from the traffickers. Later that year, she was sold again, to Mr. Dong’s household in Feng county, part of the city of Xuzhou. The two took out a marriage license in June 1998. Since the video footage emerged, Xiaohuamei has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and is in a hospital, where authorities say her oldest son is taking care of her. The new statement said she is 44 years old. #Chained #Woman #China #Sold #BrideTwice