Child beggars on Beijing subway not kidnapped: official  

公安部回應(yīng)北京地鐵內(nèi)嬰兒被拐：DNA比對(duì)系親生

公安部打拐辦主任陳士渠認(rèn)證微博5日晚發(fā)消息稱，接到北京地鐵有乞討、疑似被拐兒童的微博、微信后，公安部打拐辦即部署北京市公安局打拐辦核查。經(jīng)跟蹤調(diào)查，民警在地鐵二號(hào)線抓獲5名甘肅岷縣籍抱小孩乞討人員。經(jīng)DNA比對(duì)和與原籍地公安機(jī)關(guān)核查，均排除拐賣。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- An official with the Ministry of Public Security responded on Monday to netizens' concerns about possible child trafficking and kids being forced to beg on the Beijing metro.

The response came after a photo of a woman holding a sleeping baby and begging on Beijing Metro Line 10 made the rounds on China's popular social networking sites.

The person who posted it suspected that the baby had been trafficked: "It appears that the woman has no blood relation with the fair-skinned baby."

The photographs sparked wide concern and the post was forwarded by many netizens on Sina Weibo and WeChat.

An update confirming the post aroused even more discussion and anger.

Other similar photos have been posted by netizens about possible trafficking and kids being forced to beg.

Chen Shiqu, director of the anti-human trafficking office under the Ministry of Public Security, responded by posting the results of a recent investigation on his Sina Weibo page.

He said they had found five women begging with children on Metro Line 2, but that the children's DNA all matched their parents.

The woman in the controversial post is among those five, the Beijing Times said.

The newspaper interviewed 10 netizens who had forwarded the post, most of whom said they wanted to help trafficked babies.

Many kidnapped children in China are forced to beg. Three years ago, an online campaign called on people to post pictures of young children begging in order to put a stop to it.