The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security on February 1 that recently, the Ministry of Public Security organized and directed the public security organs in Hubei and Guangdong to successfully recover four abducted children from Hubei in Wang Haowen's series of abduction and trafficking cases. On February 1, Hubei public security organs organized a family recognition activity in Huanggang, and four groups of families were finally reunited after 21 years of separation.
From April to June 2014, there were three cases of child abduction and trafficking in Sichuan Province, in which a total of three children were trafficked. After the occurrence of the case, the Ministry of Public Security attached great importance to it, listed it as a case of ministerial supervision and deployed the Sichuan public security organs to quickly set up "426" special case group, fully carry out investigation and rescue work. On July 31, 2014, six criminal suspects including Wang Haowen were arrested, and three abducted children were successfully rescued. As the task force dug deeper and investigated thoroughly, it was found that Wang Haowen was suspected of abducting and trafficking 10 other Sichuan children from 2008 to 2010. From 2019 to 2020, Sichuan police successfully recovered 8 of the 10 Sichuan abducted and trafficked children.
In 2020, the public security organs in Huanggang, Hubei Province, found through technical comparison that the Ministry of Governor "328 "The suspect in the case" Wang Wei "and "426 "The suspect in the case, Wang Haowen, is the same person. It is reported that the ministry governor "328 "The suspects in the case abducted and trafficked 11 children from Huanggang, Huangshi, Xianning, Jingzhou and other places in Hubei Province from 2002 to 2003. Among them, a 6-year-old child was not bought because of his strong cognitive ability, and the suspect abandoned him at the Yangxin Railway Station in Huangshi City, and was later found by the public security organs, and the whereabouts of the remaining 10 abducted children from Hubei are unknown. In order to crack the case and find the abducted children, the Ministry of Public Security quickly deployed the Sichuan and Hubei public security organs to investigate the two cases together, and from 2020 to 2021, six Hubei abducted children were recovered in Guangdong. On December 26, 2023, the public security organs in Hubei and Guangdong once again recovered the last four abducted children from Hubei through technical comparison. Up to now, a total of 22 abducted children have been recovered in Wang Haowen's series of child abduction and trafficking cases, and the criminal suspect Wang Haowen was sentenced to death in the first instance, and the case is currently in the second instance trial stage.
A responsible person of the Ministry of Public Security said that the current annual number of cases of child theft and robbery has dropped to single digits, and all of them have been quickly investigated and solved. With regard to the backlog of child abduction and trafficking cases, the public security organs will continue to crack the case, never letting go of every suspect in abduction and trafficking, and will never give up on finding every abducted child. (Reporter Xiong Feng, Song Likun).