China cracked a 36-member gang that kidnapped and sold...

China cracked a 36-member gang that kidnapped and sold 96 women and children over a dozen years, sentencing two to death and handing the others at least two years' jail time.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported that two ringleaders of the gang in the southwestern province of Yunnan would be executed in line with a court verdict.
One was convicted of kidnapping and selling 12 women and 13 children and the other of kidnapping and selling 23 women.
Three more were sentenced to death, though with a two-year reprieve, while the other gang members were sentenced to at least two years in prison.
"The court found that the gang kidnapped and sold 74 women and 22 children, and cheated other people out of money totalling 61,750 yuan ($7,461) in a 12-year period from 1991 to May of 2003," it reported.