An unintended result of government-forced population control: Chinese police arrest baby snatchers - Times Online:
Police began to receive reports in September of two men on a motorcycle who grabbed toddlers as they played in the street – some in broad daylight and within sight of their parents. The first to disappear was a two-year-old girl. Then on November 14 a two-year-old boy vanished off the street. A two-year-old girl snatched on December 9 was finally dumped on the street after family and friends gave chase. But five days later a three-year-old boy was abducted.
Mothers began to stay at home, preventing their children from going to kindergarten. They locked their doors before dark. Even adults stopped speaking to strangers, anxious that the abductions could spread. After all, women have for many years been targets of gangs who sell them to men, usually farmers in remote regions, who have failed to find a wife.
