The Guizhou Provincial High People's Court recently made a second-instance ruling on Yu Huaying's child abduction and trafficking case and remanded it for retrial.
The court held that the original judgment omitted the facts of the original trial defendant Yu Huaying's other crimes of abducting and trafficking children, and some of the facts were unclear, and that a retrial should be made in order to clarify all the facts of the appellant Yu Huaying's crimes.
The verdict in the case was pronounced in the first instance at the Guiyang Intermediate People's Court in Guizhou Province on September 18, 2023. After trial, it was ascertained that between 1993 and 1996, the defendant Yu Huaying, together with Gong Mouliang (deceased), abducted and trafficked a total of 11 children in Guizhou Province, Chongqing Municipality and other places. His conduct has constituted the crime of abduction and trafficking of children, and the circumstances of the crime are particularly serious and the harm to society is extremely great, and he should be severely punished. The defendant Yu Huaying was sentenced to death for the crime of abducting and trafficking children, deprived of political rights for life, and confiscated all personal property. Defendant Yu Huaying appealed in court.
On November 28, 2023, the case was tried in the second instance**, and after the trial, the procuratorate recommended that the case be remanded for retrial on the grounds that the appellant Yu Huaying was also suspected of other criminal facts of child abduction and trafficking in Yunnan Province after a preliminary investigation by the public security organs, and that there were omissions in the crime and that there were omissions.
*: CCTV News Weibo.