Father, 37, who was a.b.d.u.c.t.e.d aged just four is reunited with his mother
Chinese man who was a.b.d.u.c.ted by a child tr.a.f.f.i.c.k.i.ng gang when he was four is reunited with his mother 33 years later after police match a drawing he made from memory of his original home to a village
A married father who was k.i.d.n.a.p.p.e.d when he was just four years old by a child-trafficking gang was reunited with his family after 33 years when he drew a map of his original home from memory.
Li Jingwei, 37, was lured by a villager and moved over 1,200 miles away from his birth home in Yunnan province, southwest China.
Every day, Mr Jingwei would draw maps of his village to make sure he did not forget his home and had “countless nights of yearning”.
Mr Jingwei was adopted and grew up in Henan, north-central China, but said he had ‘countless nights of yearning’ and was ‘homesick since I was little’.
When he learnt about other abducted children that were reunited with relatives, Mr Jingwei decided to trace his birth parents, CNN reports.
He was surprised to get an almost immediate response and a police investigation was launched which led him to his original home and mother after 33 years apart.
He remembered rice paddies and ponds near his parents’ home. As a homesick child, he regularly sketched his remaining memories of the village on to a map, he told The Paper.
The map, which included the appearance of certain homes as well as the utensils used by villagers to cook rice, was all Mr Jingwei had to go on, as he could not remember his parents’ names or the name of his village.
Against all odds, police matched the layout to a settlement near Zhaotong, a city in the mountains of Yunnan.
DNA tests confirmed Mr Jingwei was the missing son of a woman from the village and after an emotional phone call, the pair were reunited at Henan police station on New Year’s Day.
Sadly, Mr Jingwei’s birth father had already died at the time of the reunion. He now plans to spend the Lunar New Year with his mother and visit his father’s grave in Yunnan.
In an emotional video, Mr Jingwei fell to the ground as his mum cried: “I’ve finally found my little baby.”
Their reunion took place at the weekend and was organised by police.
Mr Jingwei, who is now married with children, later showed his family the map he had drawn of paddy fields and bamboo forests.
Following the abduction, his mum had unknowingly moved to the province where he had been taken and was living just 60 miles away
Many of those who are reunited with their original family have been reluctant to bring legal action against their foster parents who they grow to love.
Many children who are reunited with their original family after being abducted are reluctant to bring legal action against their foster parents because they have grown to love them.
Mr Jingwei, who is married with children, said the family that adopted him taught him ‘the principles of being a human’.
He said this was ‘so that I could study hard and become a talent in the future’.
Source:
dailymail.co.uk, mirror.co.uk
