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Members of a cross-border child-trafficking ring stand trial at a court in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Womens Dontae Johnson Jersey , on Friday. Their leader, Huang Qingheng (left) was sentenced to death. Fei Wenbin for China Daily
The leader of a group that sold more than 20 Vietnamese infants in China was sentenced to death on Friday, sending a strong signal that China will crack down on cross-border human trafficking, authorities said.


The other 23 traffickers, of whom one is a Vietnamese citizen and eight others have supposed Vietnamese citizenship that has not been confirmed, received sentences ranging from one year and 10 months to life imprisonment, with confiscation of personal property or fines for the crime of trafficking children Womens Earl Mitchell Jersey , according to a statement released by the intermediate court of Fangchenggang in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Friday.


The group sold 23 infants aged 10 days to several months to Chinese families starting in 2010 to July 2011.


The traffickers illegally carried the infants over the border to Dongxing, in Guangxi. From there, the children were sold to families in Shantou and Jieyang, both in Guangdong province. The gang also transported pregnant Vietnamese women to Guangdong, where they gave birth, and then sold the newborns.


Eleven of the kidnapped children were rescued in the crackdown and returned to Vietnam in May 2013. Chinese police are cooperating with their Vietnamese counterparts to track down the children's birth parents.


"The trial will play a big role in warning other traffickers to stop," said Huang