A Chinese man was finally reunited with his family on Tuesday, 24 years after he was kidnapped by child traffickers as a 4-year-old boy. Sun Bin was taken from his family during a trip to a vegetable market in his hometown in Sichuan province 1991. He says that he was then sold to another family in Jiangsu province, thousands of miles away.
Chinese police say that trafficking is a major problem in China where traffickers often sell kidnapped children to couples hoping to adopt. Boys often fetch a larger price, they say, due to their being prized for the ability to carry on a family name.
Sun’s emotional reunion with his long lost family took place at a police station in Chengdu, where the 28-year-old Sun dropped to his knees and wept as he was embraced by his father Sun Youhong.
The moment when a Chinese father was reunited with his abducted son after 24 years apart: http://t.co/l26Lp0qlDJ pic.twitter.com/ybdsDQeguZ
— CNN International (@cnni) January 16, 2015 Tragically however, Sun Bin’s mother passed away from cancer in 2011 without ever finding out what happened to him.
“To find our son had been my wife’s biggest wish in life,” Sun Youhong told the state news agency Xinhua. “And days before she passed away she was constantly murmuring our son’s name.”
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