Chongqing Fake Kidnapping (Photo : Weibo)
At the start of 2016, the video of a three-year-old girl kidnapped became viral, thanks to CCTV video, the child was recovered. Kidnapping is a serious crime, whether victims are children or adults, so a court gave a 43-year-old Chongqing woman a 10-day detention sentence for staging her own “kidnapping” for fun.
The other reason why Huang, the bored housewife, did it was to test how much her husband loves her, reported What's on Weibo. After she “disappeared” on June 22, her family became worried because Huang was not answering her mobile phone.
On the next evening, someone did answer the phone, but all the worried husband heard was a voice of his wife pleading with kidnappers from Changshou, a district of Chongqing. With a possible location, Huang’s family called for help and the local police station deployed 10 cops for the rescue mission.
The police team was beefed up with 19 more officers who made up the rescue team that searched for the missing housewife in Chongqing, including house-to-house checks. Using technology, the team zoomed in to a suburban district in Changshou where Huang’s former brother-in-law’s house was located.
But when they called him, the brother-in-law, who works in a remote mine, always hung his phone, so the team went to the mine for the rescue but did not find her. The brother-in-law told investigators Huang was at her house and hang up incoming calls on his phone. When he demanded an explanation from her, Huang left his house on June 23 at night.
Upon returning to the family home, the rescue team found Huang there who acted like she was not kidnapped. But she eventually admitted to the investigators the truth. A psychology expert explained what Huang did is what urban empty persons do because of their boring, monotonous and lonely life, despite being happy with her second husband and two children.
Netizens who read on Weibo what happened criticized Huang for wasting the time of 29 officers. Another user found the 10-day detention a very light punishment.
Because of China’s gender imbalance, kidnapping of Chinese wives sold to lonely men became the theme of a local movie shown in 2007.
