Xinhua News Agency said late Monday that the five Xinjiang cases include a father who sold his 12-year-old daughter to pickpocket gangs and two child traffickers who beat a boy into a coma and then threw him into a river.[break]
Authorities announced earlier in the year they would crack down on the trafficking of Xinjiang children.
Authorities say the children involved are mostly aged between 10 and 18 and from four Xinjiang cities.
Many of them are forced into stealing by gangs after being conned to leave home for eastern cities with fake job offers.
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