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Bride Trafficking in China

In china, often the first person in the trafficking chain is some one local and known. But now traffickers are use social media to trawling sights such as facebook to look for vulnerable people and entice them. Last year, marriage rates in the cities were forty % lower than a decade before. Sentences for buying a bride are just three years the same as buying endangered wild animals.

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