VietNamNet Bridge – Police of Hanoi and the southern province of Kien Giang have rescued three girls from being sold to China. Le My Han, 30, from Kien Giang, was arrested.



In mid-June, Hanoi police was informed that on June 18, a southern woman of around 30 would take four girls to China on a Saigon-Hanoi train.

In the early morning of June 16, police officers ambushed at the Hanoi Railway Station. They seized the woman, named Le Thi Han, and the four girls for investigation.

Initially, Han said that she took the four girls to Hanoi for travel. However, the woman finally confessed that she was taking three girls of 15, 20 and 27 from Kien Giang province to China for sale. The other girl is Han’s niece, who joined the group in order to win the trust of the three girls.

The woman declared that she has four children. After her husband died in 2008, Han left her children at home, with their grandparent, to go to China to marry a Chinese man. However, she returned to Vietnam because she could not sustain a hard life in China.

In July 2011, her Chinese husband went to Vietnam to take her back to China. But Han again ran away, leaving her daughter in China.

In order to take her daughter to Vietnam, in June 2012 Han called a Vietnamese woman named Nga, in China, to ask for help. Nga asked Han to sell several Vietnamese girls to China, at the price of VND5 million ($250)/girl and the money would be used to bring her daughter back to Vietnam.

Q. Trung