China court hears men barging into home, attacking grandparents before snatching infant
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The case was brought before the Intermediate People's Court in Taian, Shandong province, on April 2, after the infant, now 18 years old, was reunited with his mother in 2023, as reported by Shangyou News.
The baby was stolen on the night of December 3, 2006, when the three men, armed with pincers and sticks, scaled the wall of a courtyard in Houyu Village and broke the lock of the victim's home.
They violently assaulted and restrained the boy's grandparents before seizing the baby.
The following day, the trio allegedly sold the infant to a couple living in Jining, around 130 kilometres away, who have been raising him since. The men divided the illicit proceeds of 28,600 yuan (US$3,900) among themselves.
The mother and her long-lost son, middle, faced the media after the court hearing. Photo: Baidu
'The grandfather was covered in blood from their brutal beating. They even trampled on his head, causing his eyes to bulge,' the boy's grandmother recalled tearfully in court.
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