RFA
Police in China have returned three Lao female trafficking victims to their native Laos, sources in Laos told RFA.
The two women and one girl were separately duped into traveling to China on promises of jobs or marriages, only to be sold as brides. They each escaped their captors and sought help with the local police, who helped them return to Laos on Feb. 21, a Lao Women’s Union member from Oudomxay province, in the country’s northwest, told RFA’s Lao Service.
The source identified two of the returning victims by name as Deng, 28, and Cheng Moua, 17. Both of these victims are from Oudomxay.