‘Mother of 8 Chained in Hut’ Unmasks the False Image of a ‘Prosperous’ Regime

Playing cards showing details of missing children are displayed in 2007 in Beijing, China. The cards were created by Shen Hao, the founder of a missing persons website, and are handed out in areas notorious for child trafficking. China is on a list of countries with serious concern for human trafficking. (China Photos/Getty Images)

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The video of a Chinese mother of eight, kept chained and locked in a hut, not only shocked the nation but also revealed the darkness within the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) when the authorities ignore such things as trafficking of females and gang raping.

Having eight children was obviously violating the one-child policy of China. Under the current three-child policy, a charity visit to a family of eight children was carried out. Ironically, the visit unwittingly exposed a crime that’s all too familiar to residents of remote villages throughout China.

Exposure of a False ‘Prosperous’ Regime

In the footage, the woman, wearing a thin layer of clothing in the winter, is held by a chain on her neck that her husband installed, in a doorless, unheated, and shabby hut. She was said to be mentally ill, and her words were incomprehensible. It was said that nearly all her teeth had been knocked out by her husband, who also cut off the tip of her tongue.

What is known is that the woman, surnamed Yang, was bought by her husband’s father, Dong, in 1998. She’s long been raped by the three men of the Dong family. Many local cadres and village officials have also raped her. Some wives of the village Party committee members even fought with their husbands because of their abuse of the woman.

Who were the fathers of those eight children? The husband, Zhimin, certainly didn’t know, but responded casually: “Regardless, they all have to call me dad.”

Yang Mauxia was abducted as a schoolchild. For more than 20 years, she’s lived a hellish life. What is shocking is that the villagers were aware of her situation. In fact, abduction and human trafficking are not uncommon in rural China, and the locals have actually became accustomed to such things.

Following exposure of this horrible crime, a veteran investigative journalist Deng Fei revealed on Chinese social media Weibo that there was another girl in the village who showed up around the same time as Yang. She was also chained up, and found in conditions that were even more miserable. She could only lie on her stomach on the ground and continuously shake her head. She wore no clothing, and had just a blanket to wrap around herself.

According to Deng’s post, she hadn’t received a charity visit because she hadn’t had enough children to honor the Party’s new policy.

Chinese netizens were outraged, and local authorities were forced to come up with the lame excuse that Dong offered shelter when Yang was found begging on the street in 1998.

The official even claimed that the marriage was legal and that abduction and human trafficking do not exist.

Will the CCP Rule by Law?

After the video was exposed, netizens found that Yang closely resembled the picture of a missing girl from Sichuan Province, around 930 miles away from Yang’s current residence in Jiangsu Province. Her name was Li Ying.

Li Ying, born in 1984, was a sixth grader when she went missing in Dec. 1996 at the age of 12. Her age matched well with Yang’s age when she was first seen at Dong’s home.

Computerized analysis confirmed a match between the facial images of  Yang and Li, even the fine measurements of the distance between the eyebrows and eye size matched. It can be almost certain that Yang and Li are the same person, the Chinese media reported.

Li’s father, a veteran, passed away long ago. His friend recognized Yang’s close resemblance to Li’s father, according to a Chinese netizen.

Many Chinese netizens also recognized that Yang spoke in a local Sichuan dialect. In other footage, after Yang was unshackled, she pointed at the Dong’s house and said, It’s a nest of jerks, the entire family is rapists.

Li’s mother in Sichuan has provided a blood sample to the police for DNA testing. However, Chinese netizens are worried that even if Yang is confirmed to be Li, the CCP will not admit it.

A baby is crying in her mother’s arms in China, in April 2013. Poverty, illicit profiting, and China’s coercive one-child policy drive baby trafficking in China. (AFP/Getty Images)

Claiming to rule by law, will the CCP publish truthful DNA testing results?

If Yang indeed turns out to be Li, the CCP’s official claim will be proven to be a lie and could spark another wave of outcries that could be hard to control.

This incident will also be more than just an issue of image for the regime, after a recent sex scandal involving a senior CCP leader was revealed by Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.

According to the 2020 trafficking in Persons Report by the U.S. State Department, Chinese women and children suffer from the worst human trafficking in the world; Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and so forth, also have similarly high incidents of human trafficking.

Once the truth about the tragic mother of eight is revealed, it will confirm the severity of human trafficking in China. The international community will not remain silent on the human rights issue in China.

We can’t presume that the CCP will admit the wrongdoing, because all relevant videos on the mother of eight have already been deleted from Chinese social media. A typical move by the regime for so-called “maintaining social stability.”

What’s even more outrageous is that Zhimin, husband and rapist of the mother of eight, was not punished. Instead, he received donations from netizens.

It’s indeed sickening to see Zhimin, holding the donated money and smiling in a Chinese report on Feb. 3. He lined the children up to thank those who made the donations. Local authorities even started reconstruction and yard work around his house.

None of this would happen without the endorsement and arrangement of the CCP.

China Among the Highest Number of Human Trafficking Cases

Xuzhou City, where the mother of eight was reported, has an above average per capita GDP. But, according to a 1989 publication that used data from the book “Age-Old Crimes: A Documentary on the National Trafficking of Women,” investigators found that more than 48,000 women were sold in Xuzhou, between 1986 and 1989.

The documentary described how a local village, Niulou, had a population increase of more than 200 women in those three years, all of whom were trafficked girls, and accounted for two-thirds of married women in the village.

In another village, Jiangji, nicknamed “the largest human wholesale market” in the area, nearly every household has been involved in human trafficking. The local officials in various departments, including the public security bureau, police station, family planning office, and so on, were fully aware of the human trade.

This is the situation in a city that’s well off, what about the rural areas and the less developed cities?

Human traffickers are rampant in poverty-stricken areas across China. The document gave an example of brokers publicly showing seven girls who were up for auction in a bustling market that bordered Shandong and Henan provinces.

This took place more than 30 years ago before the one-child policy showed its detrimental effect on gender balance in China. It is likely to be more prevalent today.

CCP Initiated Human Trafficking in 1950

When Zhimin suddenly became a Weibo celebrity even after the exposure of his crimes, and received public and even governmental aid, it’s clear that his conduct is under the protection and endorsement of the CCP authorities.

The “Age-Old Crimes” book told the story of Li Xiaolan, a girl abducted from Guizhou, who sought help from a policeman on a street in Xuzhou. The officer took her to his cousin’s house. That night, the cousin raped Li Xiaolan, and then sold her for 1,800 yuan ($284) the next day.

In fact, the CCP initiated bride trafficking as early as 1950, when it occupied Xinjiang, shortly after taking over China. The CCP abducted more than 8,000 teenage girls from Hunan Province, in the name of “recruiting female soldiers,” to resolve the marriage and childbirth problems for soldiers stationed in Xinjiang.

Obviously, human trafficking has never been a big deal to the CCP. The administrative means are easily manipulated to openly justify the crime.

A 1988 joint notice by the ministries of public security, justice, and civil affairs, as well as All-China Women’s Federation, showed the CCP’s cruel attitude on the trafficking of women: “Those who were abducted as a teen, and are now at the legal age of marriage, and show willingness to live with the buyer, shall follow the formalities of marriage registration and household registration in accordance with the law.”

To quickly make up for the gender imbalance in Chinese society created by the one-child policy, the regime touts those multiple births, even though they occured because of human trafficking.

As for the rape crimes, Zhang Gaoli, the top senior leader of the CCP, and his sex scandal involving a female sports star, are the perfect example of how the perpetrators get away under the ruling of the radicals, just like the ancestor of the CCP, the Paris Commune.

Conclusion

When the regime carries on its 2022 Winter Olympics at the cost of suppressing human rights and national wealth, the mother of eight incident reveals the false image of the red “prosperity,” “rule by law,” “common prosperity,” and “the largest democracy.”

This is just the tip of the iceberg of misery under CCP rule. What is even more terrifying is the indifference of local people to crimes of human trafficking and gang rape, and who even condone the evil acts. This reflects the collapse of social morality under the CCP’s atheist rule.

When universal values are abandoned or even disappear, no one will be safe, and anyone can become a victim at any time.

How long will you, the kind-hearted Chinese people, remain silent to this inhumanity?

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.