A Vietnamese bride in Guangdong Province recently strangled both her husband and mother-in-law to death in order to sell her twin sons, reports have just revealed.
In the early morning of March 2, the cries of 60-year-old villager Lai Shehui awoke neighbors in Beiguang Village, Raoping County, Chaozhou. That day, he returned home to find his wife and son dead and his two grandsons missing along with his daughter-in-law.
The Lai family home
When he stepped through the unlocked door and into their eerily quiet home, he pulled open the mosquito net around his bed to find his 58-year-old wife with her hands and feet bound with rope. Moving to his son's room, he found the 32-year-old tied up as well. Neither were breathing, and both his grandchildren had disappeared.
Less than 15 hours later, at about 10:00pm that night, police located his daughter-in-law Lai You and his grandsons in the nearby town of Fenghuang. At first, Mr. Lai had assumed that she had escaped from their attackers with her children, but was shocked to discover that she was in fact the killer.
Lai You, 21, had worked with three fellow villagers from her hometown in Vietnam to sell her three-month-old sons. Deals had already been struck with families in Fujian Province and Meizhou to sell the children for RMB65,000 each.
Mr. Lai says she behaved perfectly normally after she was purchased for RMB28,000 and came to live with the family, but after she became pregnant she would frequently have long conversations on the telephone and sometimes disappear from the family home for long periods of time and that they would have to go find her and bring her back.
Lai You, her three associates, the middleman who arranged for the sale of her sons and their prospective clients have all been apprehended, according to police.
Mr. Lai now takes care of his grandsons on his own
Indentification belonging to Lai You (as she was known in her new home)
Vietnamese brides are increasingly popular across China as the country's gender imbalance (a result of self-selective abortions exacerbated by restrictive family planning policies) has led to a glut of men who can't find partners within the country. Promised a comfortable life in a first-tier Chinese city, however, many of these young Vietnamese women have been suddenly disappearing after they find themselves confined to poor villages.
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