Abducted 23 years ago found biological parents through Google ... - The Ball

A young Chinese man of 28 years who had been kidnapped and sold to a family for 23 years, managed to rejoin parents by Google Maps.

According to Chinese television news channel, Luo Gang, native of Sichuan province, had been kidnapped for more than two decades, when he was five, and sold to a household Fujian, thousands of miles from their homeland.

Young never gave up find his biological family and, based on the childhood memories that you indicated the existence of two bridges in the town where it was natural, published a drawing of this region in a web site for families with children abducted.

After a few volunteers you have provided suggestions of places in China compatible with those descriptions, the young man turned to Google Maps and found Yaojiaba, which seemed to correspond to their homeland. Went to the location and found there parents and grandparents.

The young man said that the adoptive family always treated well, but always wanted to reconnect with the biological family, which eventually happened.

Thousands of child abductions are reported each year in China. Minors are kidnapped by criminal networks who then sell them to families who can not have children or plants that require hand labor.