Two sentenced to death over child smuggling

A Chinese court has ordered the death sentence for two men convicted of heading gangs that bought 82 children from their parents and sold them to families in Singapore, state media reports and an official said today.

An official in the publicity department at the Intermediate People’s Court in Quanzhou, a city in south-eastern China’s Fujian province, confirmed that Ke Jianxin was convicted on Wednesday of heading a syndicate that smuggled 38 children to Singapore between 1995-2002.