In the movie "Orphaned", the first-instance verdict of the abduction case of Guo Gangtang's son was released: the "traffickers" involved in the case were sentenced to death with a suspended execution!This news has aroused widespread concern and deep reflection in society. The court's verdict put an end to the shocking kidnapping case, but at the same time, concerns about social security and the safety of children have resurfaced.
In any case, the trial and verdict of this case were a profound touch for the production team of the movie "Orphaned" and the audience. As a result of the courts, there has been a growing concern about the issue of missing children and a growing call for the safety of children. It is hoped that this judgment will serve as a mirror of social governance and trigger more thinking and action on children's rights.
On December 27, 2023, after a long wait, the kidnapping case of Guo Gangtang's son was tried for the first time at the Liaocheng Intermediate People's Court in Shandong Province.
In the end, the court sentenced the "human trafficker" Hu Fuji to death with a two-year reprieve, and granted a commutation of his sentenceand his co-conspirator girlfriend Tang Lixia was also sentenced to life imprisonment for child abduction. This verdict can be described as a temporary end to this long journey of nearly 30 years to find a child.
In 2015, a movie called "Separated Loneliness" was released, which attracted widespread attention.
In the movie, Andy Lau's father, riding a motorcycle after the child was abducted and trafficked, hanging the child's childhood **, wandering across the country for more than ten years, just to find the lost child. And the prototype of this father is Guo Gangtang.
Guo Gangtang comes from a rural family in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, originally engaged in the tractor transportation business, although not wealthy, but a happy life in the village.
However, on September 21, 1997, when Guo Gangtang, who had just finished his work, returned home, villagers told him the shocking news that his son, Guo Xinzhen, who was 2 years and 5 months and 17 days old, had been abducted.
In the afternoon of the same day, Guo Gangtang's son was playing at the door, but was directly taken away by two strangers, and has not been heard from since. It was a day that changed his family's life and started a long journey to find his family.
This news was like a sudden storm, which instantly destroyed Guo Gangtang. He immediately called the police, stopped what he was doing, and devoted himself to finding his trafficked son. The village organized a group of people to go to the station entrance and other places to help, but the surveillance could not provide effective clues, and the villagers did not see any suspicious people. The complexity of the case can be imagined, but Guo Gangtang is not discouraged. He did not hesitate to spend all his savings, and even borrowed money from the villagers to support his search for it.
However, two years have passed in a hurry, and there is still no trace of his son. As Guo Gangtang's debts mounted, friends and villagers advised him to accept that his lost child might not be recoverable. However, Guo Gangtang insisted on going all out for this. He once said, "We adults may choose despair or tenacity, but children can only wait." Waiting for his father's return, waiting for his father to bring him back to his warm home. Therefore, I must find the child. ”
So, in 1999, Guo Gangtang, who was only 30 years old, made up his mind and started the long road of searching for his son alone. He bought a motorcycle, hung a missing person notice with his son** in the back seat, and started a nationwide journey to find his son. Ten years passed, he traveled to 30 provinces and abandoned 9 motorcycles.
The cargo compartment on the motorcycle was extraordinarily large, filled with biscuits that his wife had made for him, which became a source of food for him on the road. After many kind-hearted people saw it, they directly bought these cookies with money, which became a solid support for Guo Gangtang's insistence on finding.
His motorcycle has also become a gift from many people who sympathize with his plight, many of whom even offer repair services free of charge. At that time, when the Internet was still immature, his story gradually became known.
Subsequently, director Peng Sanyuan was determined to make a film of his experience and convey this true story to more people, so he named the film "Orphaned".
The road to find his lost son was lonely and difficult for Guo Gangtang. With the passage of time, the child's ** gradually loses its reference value, and most people have lost their memory of whether they have ever seen such a child.
And, as children get older**, they become more difficult to recognize. Although Guo Gangtang has found some clues many times, they have all ended in failure.
However, on the way to find his relatives, he met many people who had experienced similar experiences, and they were also poor people who had been robbed of their happy lives by human traffickers.
Therefore, in the process of searching for his own son, Guo Gangtang began to help other families find their lost children. He made a poster hundreds of meters long, filled with information about the missing children he had collected during the search, hoping to help people find their lost family members.
At the same time, Guo Gangtang also found a place for some street children to settle down. When he has free time, he invites these children to his home and spend time with each other.
However, although he has been riding for more than ten years and has helped many people, he has never been able to find news of his son. Guo Gangtang gradually realized that his methods had little effect, so he pinned his hopes on the local public security organs.
However, Guo Gangtang did not give up easily. Although he no longer used to do what he used to do by bike, he used the money he received from donations and the sale of handicrafts to start a network called "Tracing Relatives".
This platform allows people to post information about lost children, the elderly, or people with mental illness, and mobilize the power of the Internet and the public to search. In addition, he founded the "Tianya Family Tracing Volunteer Association", which is dedicated to helping find lost relatives. In more than 20 years of searching for children, he has successfully recovered more than 100 trafficked children.
With the popularity of the Internet, Guo Gangtang's figure is all over the major platforms. In order to find his son, but also to help more people, he constantly mobilized more volunteers and became a moral role model for the local community.
However, despite this, Guo Gangtang has not received any information about his son's whereabouts. It wasn't until June 2021 that the local ** informed him that the missing child had been found.
In fact, at the time of the child's disappearance, ** had conducted a large number of investigations to enter the information of Guo Gangtang and his wife into the system. As the case deepened and expanded, the incident also evolved into a cooperation between multiple provinces with the intention of apprehending the perpetrators of child trafficking.
It was during the "Reunion" operation in 2021 that ** successfully cracked a number of long-standing child abduction and trafficking cases, and carried out DNA data statistics on these children who had been abducted for many years, including Guo Gangtang's son Guo Xinzhen.
On July 11, 2021, ** hosted a family recognition ceremony for Guo Gangtang's family in Liaocheng. Although Guo Xinzhen knew nothing about the history of the family before this, after learning about his father's hardships, he was deeply touched and hugged him affectionately, with tears in his eyes.
In May of the following year, Guo Gangtang drove a motorcycle again, but the car was no longer a poster looking for his son, but a slogan of "Seeking a Son and Thanksgiving".
Regarding the trial of the case, the suspects in the case of Guo Gangtang's disappearance were identified as Hu Fuji and Tang Lixia, a criminal couple who had specialized in child abduction and trafficking. After confirming their identities, ** immediately took action and took them to the police station for interrogation. However, Hu insisted on his innocence for fear of being judged harshly.
The difference is that Tang admitted his crime without concealment, making it impossible for Hu to quibble. They not only abducted and trafficked Guo Xinzhen, but also successfully committed three criminal acts, which can be called habitual offenders.
Upon learning of this, Guo Gangtang immediately filed a lawsuit, demanding that the other party pay the due price for the breakdown of many families. The case was heard by the Liaocheng Intermediate People's Court on July 7, 2023, and the verdict was pronounced on December 27. In this trial, Guo Gangtang hopes that the other party can take legal responsibility for the crime committed and bring a fair verdict to the victim's family.
This morning, the case that has attracted widespread attention ushered in an end, Hu was sentenced to a suspended death sentence, and Tang faced life imprisonment. However, for the families who have been victims of trafficking, the end of the lawsuit has not really healed their wounds.
Before that, people who have been trafficked are likely to be ignorant of their origins and have no idea about the circumstances of their purchases"Parents"to establish a deep affection. Guo Xinzhen is one of them.
He was sold to a family in Linzhou, Henan Province, because the other party was deeply influenced by the concept of "preference for sons", so after giving birth to two daughters, he had this evil idea.
The family treated Guo Xinzhen very kindly, and his two sisters also cared for him kindly, assisting him in purchasing real estate, vehicles and other belongings. Guo Xinzhen also worked hard to be admitted to the public sector and became a teacher.
It wasn't until ** informed him that he had been purchased by his "parents" that he learned his true background. However, Guo Xinzhen did not feel strong anger at the family with whom he had spent more than 20 years.
After confirming his background, he expressed concern for his adoptive parents, pointing out that they were elderly and in poor health. Since his life and work are rooted there, he decided to return to his adoptive parents while maintaining ties with his biological family.
Of course, there was some disagreement about his choice. However, Guo Gangtang and his wife insisted that everything is based on the wishes of the children, and he is willing to be in **, and he will never be allowed to be hurt again. They also hope that everyone will respect their son's decision and not disturb his life.
For Guo Xinzhen, all this has evolved into an inextricable contradiction in his heart. Guo Gangtang is the biological father he has been looking for for more than 20 years, and his adoptive parents are the family members who have accompanied him to grow up and devote their hearts and souls. Such a situation doomed the family to be unable to go back to the past.
In fact, according to the provisions of Chinese law, the purchase of abducted children is also legally responsible. However, Guo Gangtang chose not to file a lawsuit against the other party, which reflects his decision to think about his long-lost son, and expresses his deep love for his son in this way.
It has been said that "nurturing grace is greater than giving birth", but this is not the case in this case. Guo Gangtang's deep affection for his son is obvious, but before he can start to really raise him, this fatherly love is completely destroyed by human traffickers.
For trafficked children, the nurturing grace they experience is actually "stolen" and "bought" by others. They were supposed to enjoy the same upbringing as many families, but it became part of the conflict.
This harm is almost permanent for the families of the biological parents, and the main culprit for this situation is the criminal acts of "human traffickers".
Combating trafficking is necessary. Guo Gangtang was not satisfied with Hu's suspended death sentence, believing that the punishment for these traffickers was far from sufficient because they did not realize their mistakes. In court, Hu even appealed the final verdict, showing that he did not think his crime was serious in his heart. Therefore, this long orphan case has not yet ushered in the final conclusion.
In fact, Guo Gangtang's situation is already quite gratifying. In addition to the abducted Guo Xinzhen, he also has two sons, and has participated in a large number of business and public welfare activities, which can be described as a successful career.
Although Guo Xinzhen did not choose to return to his family, the relationship with his father gradually improved, Guo Gangtang personally held a wedding for his son, realized his former dream, and the smile was put on his face again.
However, there are still many families who are unable to get out of this tragedy, and some families have not been able to find their lost children, and finally choose to give up.
For example, at the end of 2020, a nationwide campaign called Operation Reunion was launched to find trafficked and missing children, and Guo Gangtang's reunion was one of the successful examples.
As of 2021, China has cracked nearly 300 cases of child abduction and trafficking in this operation, and the number of criminal suspects has reached more than 690. According to data released the following year, 11,198 missing children were successfully recovered.
Severe penalties have also been imposed for offenders involved in trafficking cases, and even the legal responsibility of purchasers has been traced. They deserve the punishment they deserve, and we hope that families who have been caught up in tragedy will have a belated "reunion" one day in the future.
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