Child traffickers boast that there is no child they cannot abduct, and new trafficking methods are impossible to guard against

Chen Keke disappeared.

On the night she played on the inflatable castle, she mysteriously vanished.

At the time, her mother Shen Xinyi was watching the inflatable castle while chatting with other parents, completely unaware that Chen Keke was gone.

At that moment the moonlight was like water, the night hazy, all the children were laughing and frolicking in the castle, and Chen Keke was playing happily with a few other children, while the parents waiting outside, influenced by the children's atmosphere, were chatting merrily as well.

Shen Xinyi, who had originally been worried, soon joined the chatting group. But Shen Xinyi could never have imagined that Chen Keke would disappear right under her nose.

At first Shen Xinyi thought Chen Keke was hiding in some other corner of the castle, but after calling out many times in a row she got no response at all. Shen Xinyi grew anxious; ignoring the stall owner's attempts to stop her, she climbed onto the inflatable castle and searched every corner, but found no trace of Chen Keke whatsoever.

At that moment Shen Xinyi felt as if she had been struck head-on with a club; her whole body went dizzy, numb, and wooden. It was a long while before she reacted, and then she screamed Chen Keke's name at the top of her lungs.

The other parents all realized something was wrong, hurriedly called their own children back, and after seeing their children were safe, actively helped Shen Xinyi search for Chen Keke.

Given Chen Keke's obedient and outspoken nature, it was impossible that she would not respond upon hearing her mother call, and yet the silent night sky declared that Chen Keke was truly lost.

The stall owner also helped search, but also told Shen Xinyi that he had warned everyone at the start to watch their children well, otherwise if they were lost he would not bear responsibility.

Someone helped call the police, and the police quickly arrived to investigate, but after retrieving nearby surveillance footage they also came up empty. By then the inflatable castle had also been deflated, and still nothing was found. Where had Chen Keke gone? For a time it became a mystery.

Shen Xinyi's husband, Chen Guocheng, rushed to the scene shortly after the incident. He held the already collapsed Shen Xinyi and kept comforting her. Nearby people pointed and gossiped about something. Chen Guocheng pushed through the crowd, took Shen Xinyi to the car, and then, unwilling to give up, drove around the city searching for several more rounds.

It was not until the early hours of the next day that Chen Guocheng knew Chen Keke truly could not be found.

Shen Xinyi was hospitalized, and Chen Guocheng was also mentally and physically exhausted. The family was in complete chaos; some handed out flyers, some made phone calls. For a time, it seemed the whole world was searching for Chen Keke. Even the media participated in the search, but after several days of effort there was still no news at all.

The inflatable castle owner did not set up his stall for several days, but he also did not leave the city. After intermittently accepting some investigations and interviews, everyone concluded that the stall owner had done nothing wrong.

This matter suddenly hung in limbo. Aside from becoming a topic of casual conversation, it also seemed to become unrelated to others. The only ones who remained heartbroken and in pain were the Chen family.

Chen Keke was the only child in the Chen family, just turned four years old this year, and the treasure of the whole family. Before this, they had watched over the child very strictly; normally when playing on the street, Shen Xinyi and the family would not let outsiders hold Chen Keke even once, because they had seen on television many times stories about bad people snatching children. Moreover, Chen Keke was a pretty and sensible girl, even more likely to be targeted by bad people.

So the Chen family valued Chen Keke more than their own lives. And now, Chen Keke had actually disappeared right in front of them, which was as agonizing as a knife being stabbed into their hearts.

At this point what they hoped for most was that the child would not be harmed. If she really had been abducted or stolen, they hoped the other party would treat her well, and absolutely not do to her what some children on the internet were said to have suffered, like having their hands cut off, feet broken, or tongues cut out. Even more, they did not want her to encounter a pervert or a sex maniac. They hoped she could be safe and sound, still alive.

Chen Guocheng's mother burned incense and prayed every day, her devotion more earnest than on any previous day. Chen Guocheng's father walked the streets every day, regardless of the heat and everyone he met, describing his granddaughter's appearance.

Shen Xinyi, with vacant eyes, cut her arm with a knife, wanting to use blood to atone for her own fault. Chen Guocheng supported this family with his unyielding iron arms, never giving up the search for even a second, yet also crying out loud in pain when the news sank like a stone into the sea.

Those who have never lost someone cannot understand their grief, terror, and immense guilt. No one knows that they suddenly wake in fright when they dream of bloody scenes. Even less can anyone understand that, having lost their child, they went from happiness and joy to having no vitality at all; life had become a stagnant pool of dead water, and the future had no hope whatsoever.

Many people advised them to have another child while they were still young, but on the verge of despair they felt they had lost the ability to live. Not that they could not, but that they did not want to.

Days like this went round and round for a year. Time flows like water yet cannot soothe the sorrow in their hearts, because they loved too much, so they could never let go.

This year was a year of nightmares, a year of extreme pain. The search continued all along, never once abandoned, because only finding Chen Keke was the final outcome they wanted.

Chen Guocheng went from being a manager at a public institution to a peddler roaming the streets and alleys, just to find traces of his daughter.

And heaven never lets down those who persevere. On one accidental occasion, while Chen Guocheng was resting by a city street, he inadvertently discovered that the giant figures on top of the inflatable castle seemed capable of hiding people. He had once boldly guessed this, and one night he dressed up as a parent and climbed up.

Sure enough, the bad people's tricks were the same. The inflatable castle he tried was also one that traveled from street to street, and in the cartoon figure at the very top of that castle there was a huge passage hidden. Once children entered this passage they would slide down, but could not climb back up.

Chen Guocheng seemed to have discovered something. He secretly called the police and cooperated with the officers to control the inflatable castle stall owner. From the stall owner's mouth they also learned that this was a gang specializing in using various amusement facilities or cartoon dolls to steal children. They committed crimes continuously all over the country, and through coordination among themselves they made things run smoothly, without any flaws.

They had even once, while parading in cartoon costumes, snatched a child from an old woman's hands and knocked the old woman unconscious. People merely thought the old woman had fainted in an insurance scam and no one stepped forward to help.

They used multiple channels to commit many crimes, stealing hundreds of children across the country. Most of the children would be sold to different buyers, while some disobedient children or those old enough to remember were killed.

Chen Guocheng was shocked and furious at their answers, cursing them as heartless beasts with no humanity. If he were given a knife right now, he truly wished he could personally execute these animals, stab by stab, without mercy.

Through this stall owner's testimony, the police tracked down information on the previous stall owner and quickly brought him to justice. Faced with conclusive testimony, the stall owner bowed his head and confessed to the fact of using the inflatable castle to steal children. And among all the confessions, the only thing that comforted Chen Guocheng was that Chen Keke was still alive.

Because the gang's network was vast and their division of labor clear, the police spent a long time again, pursuing the people who specialized in selling children, and following the trail to find the buyers.

When the police broke down the door and brought the buyers under control, Chen Guocheng and Shen Xinyi, who had been following behind, saw that the originally cute and clever Chen Keke was now wearing dirty clothes, her expression somewhat dull, and her arm holding fruit was covered with needle marks. Heaven knows what she had been through.

And after hesitating for a few seconds, Chen Keke looked at the already tear-soaked Shen Xinyi and suddenly cried out mournfully, Mama! Then she opened her mouth wide and wailed.

Shen Xinyi brought Chen Keke home, but this one year had also destroyed Chen Keke's originally lively and cheerful heart. Shen Xinyi and the family would need to use even more care and love to heal the wounds in Chen Keke's soul.

The once sensational inflatable castle disappearance case was fully solved. Street corners and neighborhoods spontaneously launched campaigns to boycott inflatable castles, but the impact of this matter on people's hearts did not end.

In casual conversation, people still often ask themselves: amid happiness and light, who can truly protect our children?

I had insomnia last night and watched that Andy Lau film "Lost and Love" again.

In the film, the father whose child was lost, played by Andy Lau, traveled across more than half of China just to find his son.

He gave up everything, going from a moderately successful businessman to a middle-aged man with nothing, in ragged clothes, humbly handing out missing-person notices to every passerby.

In this process he suffered endless cold stares, and was even questioned, beaten, and scolded, nearly losing his life.

Even if he had not enough to eat and no proper place to sleep, he was determined to stay on the road searching for his son, afraid of missing even one chance to be reunited with his child.

He said: "A stable life would only make me feel guilty and uneasy."

Yet every time, he ended in disappointment.

In the end, he did not find his child as he had wished.

This inevitably makes me resent the screenwriter's cruelty, but this story itself comes from a true case.

The protagonist is merely a microcosm of countless parents of abducted children. Most of them will live out the rest of their lives just like the plot in the film, or even more bitterly.

They must search endlessly, wait, and feel guilt.

The moment a child is abducted is the moment a family is shattered.

This film directly states this social reality, leaving one so helpless that one cannot refute it, and only makes me hate those cruel child traffickers with gnashing teeth.

Child trafficking is right before our eyes, and its methods are so despicable that ordinary people cannot imagine them.

When traffickers want to steal a child, aside from secretly carrying the child away when the parents are off guard, there are also many cases in broad daylight, in front of everyone, where they directly snatch the child away.

In the image below, the father in the blue short-sleeved shirt is leading his child out for a walk.

Suddenly from behind him comes a strange woman, wanting to carry the child away.

The father immediately becomes alert, concluding that this person is a child trafficker trying to snatch his child.

Just as he wants to struggle to snatch the child back from the trafficker's hands, something terrible happens.

The passersby nearby suddenly all surge toward him, as if they had planned it together, but they have not come to help this father.

They are the trafficker's accomplices.

These people pin the pitiful, crying-for-help father in the scene to the ground, beat him, and shout loudly:

"Catch the bad guy, the bad guy is snatching a child!"

They easily slander this father, who wants to protect his own child, as a child trafficker, so that no one will come to help him out of the situation.

In the end this terrifying group of traffickers, joining forces, snatch the little child from his biological father's hands, put him into a blue sedan, and from then on he is never seen again.

Leaving only a man with no one to turn to, watching helplessly as his own child is taken away.

This setup by child traffickers is actually their usual trick.

Liu Tao once acted in a drama, and in it there was a segment that depicted in detail how child traffickers step by step make parents drop their guard, then use the public's ignorance of the truth to finally succeed in abducting the child.

This plot was likewise adapted from a true story.

The scorpion-hearted child trafficker plays a warm-hearted old granny, then with a loving face offers to help the overwhelmed Liu Tao hold the baby.

Yet in the blink of an eye, the bad person and the child vanish without a trace.

When Liu Tao finds the child and wants to snatch the child back, she is blocked by a strange man.

Then this man, cooperating with the old woman who snatched the child, plays the role of the child's father and grandmother.

They keep throwing mud at Liu Tao, making the onlooking crowd think this is a family dispute rather than a crime scene.

The result truly is that not a single person steps up to help.

Liu Tao can only watch helplessly as these two traffickers take her child away.

Who could look at these cases without a chill down their spine? If the traffickers have numbers and strength, and in every snatching they have calculated that no one will help.

Then our children truly live under danger at every moment.

Besides calculated and organized snatching, there are also many traffickers who target children's weaknesses and natural instincts.

These beasts, through coaxing and trickery, get ignorant children to take the bait, then smoothly take them away.

A foreign volunteer once conducted the following experiment.

Even if the child's parents confidently said:

Safety education for the child was almost complete, and the child could absolutely never be successfully lured away by a trafficker.

Yet when the volunteer carefully observed the girl in the image below, and accurately guessed this child's preferences.

He merely led a little dog over, and quickly won the child's trust. Before long, the child was holding his hand and walking off with him.

Similarly, this volunteer used the same method to conduct experiments on many children, and the results were surprisingly consistent.

As long as one can accurately grasp a child's preferences, one can easily build trust with them, and then control them freely.

The results of this experiment left many parents who thought they had given their children safety education dumbstruck and utterly despairing.

If the person who led the child away were not a volunteer but a real child trafficker, that would mean that in one afternoon he easily destroyed several families.

Similar experiments have also been conducted by people in China.

Most of the children could not escape the trap of temptation carefully laid by child traffickers.

50 children underwent testing, and 42 children were successfully abducted.

This figure leaves every parent trembling with fear and at a loss.

Exploiting children's weaknesses and preferences is another one of the most common tricks that child traffickers love to use.

I collected some personal experiences from netizens, all of whom had encountered utterly wicked child traffickers.

Yet every version, every trafficker, and the methods they used to achieve their aims, and the shamelessness they displayed, repeatedly lowered my standards of what is acceptable.

1. "Last Sunday afternoon, I was at home with my baby, gave him some building blocks to play with on the dining table, and lay on the living room sofa wearing earphones listening to music. As I listened, I drifted off.

The dining room is near the entrance, and between the living room and the door there is a small foyer. Half-asleep, I heard a man's voice saying 'Little friend, we're from KFC delivery,' and then I heard a 'bang' as the door closed.

Our door basically makes no sound when opened. Out of a mother's particular alertness, I immediately rushed out. The child had already walked to the elevator door, and an arm was still stretched out from inside the elevator, as if wanting to pull my baby in.

I shouted 'Baby, where are you going?' The baby stopped and looked at me. I hurried over and picked up the baby, and the elevator door closed with a 'whoosh.'

Asking the baby, I roughly understood what happened: the baby heard the doorbell, opened the door, and saw a KFC uncle who said he was delivering the family bucket that mom had ordered, and also said the cola was left in the car, and asked the baby to come along to get it. But I had never ordered a family bucket at all! Looking back, one step later and the consequences would have been unimaginable. Even now I still have lingering fear."

@Netizen Juzi FREE

Dressed as a delivery worker, saying he was there to deliver the fried chicken the child liked most, and then making up a lie, he smoothly led the child away.

At this moment I feel like blowing this person up.

2. "I took 9-month-old Pengbao downstairs to play. The little one was sitting in a small cart, and around were several old ladies from our building playing with their granddaughters or grandsons.

Suddenly a woman of about 50-something walked over, neatly dressed, smiling as she teased my baby, and the little one responded happily.

Then she wanted to hold the baby. I hurriedly said, 'Don't hold him, it's so hot, and the little one is afraid of strangers!'

Although I stepped forward to stop her, she still picked the baby up, and the baby also reached out his little hand to let her hold him. This person did not gather together like other people holding children, but instead turned and walked toward a car parked nearby, saying as she went, 'Baby, look at the big car.'

Instinctively I blocked her, and insisted on snatching the baby back."

@Netizen Duanbao

Usually people do not become suspicious of neatly dressed middle-aged and elderly people, but most child traffickers happen to be exactly this kind of person, and they are very clear that they will not be suspected.

So openly carrying the child away and calmly putting them into a car is the most commonly used method of child traffickers. In that extremely short time, you have no chance at all to resist or ask for help.

3. "A couple of days ago I saw on TV that a little girl was carried away by child traffickers, and the whole process was captured by surveillance cameras. When the little girl crossed the road she had only fallen a little behind, and two women immediately targeted her, then carried her away.

How terrifying! Such an accidental matter, and you can run into child traffickers. There really are so many bad people now! When going out with children, you must hold them firmly and not walk separately from them."

@Jiameng

Child traffickers are everywhere. Once they target your child, they only need you to panic for a few seconds, and they can immediately succeed, taking the child from your side forever.

4. "After I gave birth I was hospitalized. The first day I did not think much about it and did not feel anything particular. On the second day I heard that in another hospital in this city there had been a case of a newborn baby being stolen.

When the doctor came to check the ward at night, he said there must be two people accompanying the patient, one to care for the mother and one to watch the baby, and the ward door must be locked.

Not long after returning home, I saw news saying that a young couple and the husband's parents had taken the child to the hospital. The next day, a person in a white coat came to the ward saying they were there to give the child the BCG vaccine. The four of them trustingly let this person carry the baby away, and as a result the baby never came back. Thinking about it really gives me the creeps!"

@Little Fish

Child traffickers don't just show up on the streets; hospitals are their hunting grounds too. The moment a parent's attention wanders, they seize the chance and snatch a baby still in swaddling clothes, as easy as pie.

5. "On the weekend, I took my child grocery shopping. A strange man walked up and slapped me across the face, saying, 'Your child is sick, and you still bring him out.'

Then an older woman picked up the child from the stroller, saying the child was seriously ill and needed to see a doctor. The bystanders thought it was just a family dispute, took a few glances, and walked off.

Then that older woman and the strange man picked up my child, shoved him into a car nearby, shut the door, and drove off in an instant. Thank goodness I shouted loudly and the market had a bit of a traffic jam, so several kind shopkeepers helped me block that car. Otherwise, I would have wanted to die."

@Qi Baobao

This example is very similar to the two above.When traffickers put on their act, you have no idea how to ask for help, especially if there's no one you know nearby.

Then it really comes down to this: whatever the trafficker says, everyone believes.

6. "She had gone upstairs to hang laundry and was watching her child through the window. She noticed someone approaching the child and hurried downstairs, but by the time she got there, the child was gone.

The child was 5 years old when she went missing. For ten years she never stopped searching, and in the end she saw her daughter on the street, both legs amputated and tongue cut off."

@Taotao's Mom

What this netizen shared is the most heartbreaking to me. She told the story of her friend.

It also tells us where most abducted children end up, and what they go through.

In one careless moment, a child is lost for more than a decade, and when you see them again, they have been crippled by someone.

Writing this, I truly cannot bear the sorrow. I curse all traffickers, and every elder and child in their family for generations, to die a horrible death.

When we see these tragedies, these facts that leave us shaken, we must know who is behind it all.

In "Invisible Man," Zhang Baoyan, founder of Baby Come Home, said the following.

Those buyers are the root of the evil, the ones who drive traffickers to tirelessly run this business, to lose their humanity, and to reap huge profits from it.

Look at the chat group below, and there are countless more beasts who, just because they want a child, couldn't care less whether they bring agony to another family.

What they buy with their money is the miserable remaining lives of countless other parents.

Some other things Zhang Baoyan said are also deeply memorable, even as they break your heart.

Parents who lose a child mostly never find peace for the rest of their lives, because they cannot imagine what suffering their child is going through. These people simply cannot live out their remaining years well.

What's even more tragic is that losing a child means the child's memories will also be erased. They will forget their own family. That is the real tragedy, perhaps: to meet but be unable to recognize each other.

Looking at the pictures below, I feel more and more despair, my eyes wet with tears. Once many children are taken, they truly can never be found again.

And in most of the closed-off regions of our country, where the mentality of favoring boys over girls is still extremely severe, so for many children, their experiences after being trafficked can roughly be divided into the following two categories.

And those whom some traffickers cannot sell, the so-called defective goods in their words, are mostly crippled, and the children are ordered to beg on the streets to win sympathy.

In short, among trafficked children, those who come out unharmed and grow up safe and sound are very, very few.

Below I want to include an interview conversation between a journalist and a trafficker that circulated online:

"Why do you traffic children?"

"The money comes fast and it's relatively easy."

"Don't you know it's a crime?"

"It's just a kid, isn't it? They can have another one!"

"How many times have you taken part in child trafficking? What's the most you abducted at one time?"

"I can't remember. I sell several every month. The most at one time was maybe 3 to 4. I can't remember clearly."

"Where do the trafficked children go?"

"All over the country. There are dedicated people who sell them. I'm only in charge of abducting. The people above don't allow me to know where the children end up, saying it's to keep the police from tracing them."

"What's your method?"

"If they can be coaxed, I trick them. If they're too sharp, I snatch them. If they won't listen, I knock them out and take them away. I strike when the adults aren't paying attention."

"Have you ever thought about what happens to those children?"

"I don't know where they're sold to either. I'm only in charge of abducting. City or countryside, it's uncertain. I don't know either. Wherever there's demand, I sell them there."

"Do you target certain children?"

"If they look healthy, I pay attention. If they're dressed nicely, I pay attention too. Only good quality ones sell for a good price. Even if it's a rich person's child, they won't sell for much more."

"Did you ever kill a child during the trafficking?"

(Silent for a moment, nods)

"That kid cried too loudly and almost drew people over. My partner in the crew was afraid of trouble, so he threw the kid into the river. He did it, not me!"

That's right. The above is the inner state of most traffickers, and their utterly evil faces.

Writing this, if I am to hold back my grief and force a conclusion, I want to earnestly ask everyone here:

In the future, when it comes to child abduction, try not to be a cold bystander.

I believe most people are kind at heart, but I dare not underestimate the traffickers' endless tricks in the slightest.

It is precisely by using the public and then luring children that they succeed again and again.

Finally, through the cases in this article, I also hope parents can understand one principle: all parenting methods are about making a child's awareness and understanding more complete.

But never think this is a once-and-for-all solution. Do not try to rely only on education as the single way to let your child grow up safely.

No safety education can do without parents' companionship and attention.

If in the past your guidance to your child in this regard needed strengthening, please take action at once.

If you too have countless times placed your child in your blind spot and neglected their safety.

Then after reading this article, please try not to do so anymore.

In the words of those volunteers:

The lost children, perhaps even a hundred years would not be enough to find them all.

But right now we are willing to work hard, through deterrence, attention, and reporting, to prevent such incidents from happening.

Please also actively share this article, so more people realize that traffickers are not far from us, eyeing every child we love around us, scheming to use every method to destroy and drag down one family after another.

The image below is a search strategy that must be followed after a child goes missing. I hope everyone keeps it in mind always, but never has to use it.

Unlike before, this time the trafficker actually carried the baby girl away in broad daylight, and the neighbors nearby all knew her! Although the baby girl was eventually found safely, looking back, everyone said they were deeply frightened.

What exactly happened?

Around 2:30 p.m. on May 1, the Shanghai Qingpu Public Security Sub-bureau received a report: near Sanguanqiao Road and Zhenxi North Road in Liantang Town, a baby girl had been taken.

After receiving the report, police officers immediately went to the scene to handle it.

It turned out that the baby girl's grandfather had taken the child to play in the street-center park, when he happened to meet a middle-aged woman he knew. Because he had something to do, he temporarily handed the child to her to hold for a bit. But he never imagined that a few minutes later, the middle-aged woman and her granddaughter would both be gone. Sensing something was wrong, he called the police.

Why do we say he knew this middle-aged woman? Because the baby girl's grandfather said this middle-aged woman had been in the park for seven or eight days, and had chatted with them quite well. Whenever she saw the child, she would come over to hold and amuse her, very warm and friendly. Because his granddaughter was not afraid of strangers either, she had played with her several times and it was all fine.

But who would have thought this woman was actually a trafficker!

Nowadays, many children are looked after by grandparents. The elderly like to take the children to stroll in parks and around the neighborhood. When they see some people a few more times, and chat with them pleasantly, they naturally let down their guard a little.

But today's traffickers are too brazen, just as the traffickers themselves describe it:"We have plenty of tricks for abducting children!"、"There's no child we can't take."Every year, traffickers' tricks get upgraded. It's truly terrifying!

This is what a netizen shared:

"My child and I were at home. Someone rang the doorbell and my child opened the door. He saw a KFC delivery person, who said he was delivering the family bucket I ordered, then said the cola had been left in the car and asked my child to come along to get it. But I had never ordered a family bucket at all! Just thinking about it still gives me the shivers."

A mother ran a hair salon and kept her child with her. The salon newly hired an employee who didn't leave an ID card. That day the employee said he would take the child to buy candy, and they never came back.

Data shows that among the high-incidence locations for child trafficking,the doorstep ranks first!Many parents, especially the elderly, feel that everyone coming and going at the doorstep is an acquaintance, so nothing will happen. This is truly a huge mistake!

In addition, these high-incidence places for children going missing also need attention:

Shopping malls

In such places, adults tend to focus on choosing goods, trying on clothes, and so on, and easily neglect watching their children.

Parks or squares

Because the area is open and there are many people, parks or squares have also become one of the places where children most easily go missing.

Stations

During holidays, stations become the busiest places with the largest crowds, and all kinds of people mix together there. A child can be targeted by a trafficker in a moment of carelessness.

Supermarkets

Supermarkets are also a disaster zone for children going missing, especially large supermarkets, which have many partitions and similar counter displays, making it hard for children to tell one place from another. If parents are even slightly careless, a child can easily go missing.

Amusement parks

Amusement parks are children's favorites. So after parents leave, the child may return to or linger in the original area. By the time the child snaps out of it and runs off to chase the parents, with so many people around, it is very easy to get lost.

Evening event venues

Places such as evening event venues are crowded and dimly lit, making missing-child incidents more likely, so parents had best hold their child's hand.

Still from the movie "Dearest"

What should you do if you find your child is missing?

If you find your child is missing, parents should immediately take the following measures:

Broadcast

Find a way to locate a broadcasting station. When broadcasting, be sure to state the child's characteristics clearly, such as what clothes they are wearing, any obvious marks on their body (such as birthmarks, moles, etc.), the parents' names and contact information, and so on.

Call the police

Reporting to the police also takes skill. A child under 2 years old still cannot walk well, so if they go missing, they were very likely abducted, and you should call the police at once. For a child aged 3 to 6, their range of activity will not be too large; if you have searched for more than half an hour and still cannot find them, you should call the police promptly. If it is an elementary school student, it is best to first promptly contact classmates and parents they are close to and ask around before calling the police.

Once it is confirmed that the child is missing, use all effective channels such as Weibo, WeChat, apps, radio, television, outdoor advertising, and mobile phone text messages to quickly spread the information about the search for the child, so more people know. You can also use public video resources at airports, stations, docks, malls, roads, and other places to help with the search.

Finally, a reminder once again

Always keep your child within sight

When taking your child out, always pay attention to whether the child is beside you or within sight. Always remember that your child is the most important thing. Do not focus too much attention on your phone, goods, or trying on clothes. If something urgent comes up, even if it is only for a very short time, never let a stranger watch your child.

Use a "pick-up card" to collect your child

When picking up your child at kindergarten or school, be sure to use the "pick-up card," and agree with the teacher on the person who usually comes to pick up the child. Try not to let outsiders pick up the child in your place.

Create a child profile

Parents should write down the child's physical features, such as which part of the body has a birthmark, and keep recent photos of the child on their phone for emergency use. Once a child goes missing, broadcast or report it promptly. The child's physical features, clothing features, and so on are important information.

Try not to take your child alone to remote places

Girls, remember to try your best not to take your child out alone, especially to remote places.

Find out the identity of any nanny you hire

When hiring a nanny, be sure to verify their true identity and obtain firsthand information, to avoid letting a wolf into the house.

Teach your child some self-protection knowledge

When your parents are not around, do not listen to strangers, do not get into strangers' cars, and do not eat or drink beverages, candy, or other snacks given by strangers.

Make sure your child memorizes important contact information

Girls, tell your child your home address and your phone number, and require them to remember them. Tell your child that if they get lost or are abducted or kidnapped, they should find a police officer or dial 110.

I hate traffickers. Those traffickers who have extinguished their conscience are so detestable that even death by a thousand cuts would not be enough!

As children slowly grow up, we must teach them to learn how to avoid danger. Of course, while they are still young, the most important thing is never to let them out of our sight.

Finally, I still want to cry out one sentence: may there be no trafficking in this world!