‘I have a home now’: China DNA match sees repentant petty criminal abducted as child reunited with parents 33 years on

After serving four jail terms man promises to change his ways. China registers 118,000-plus cases of human trafficking in 11 years. — SCMP

A family in China who spent more than three decades searching for their son who was abducted by human traffickers when he was four years old has finally been reunited with him, thanks to a DNA database.

Joy for the Wei family from Sichuan province in southwestern China, however, was tinged with shock as they discovered their missing boy was serving a jail term for theft in Zhejiang province in the east of the country.