Mother reunited with her son 32 years after he was snatched and sold for less than $900
A mother in China was left heartbroken as her son was taken from her at the age of 2 in 1988.
Mao Yin was taken by strangers outside a hotel after his father stopped at a hotel to get him some water, and his mother Li Jingzhi hasn’t stopped searching for him since.
She never gave up hope she would find her son again and quit her job to hand out 100,000 flyers at the time of his disappearance.
The family now know that he was taken and sold to a childless couple for less than $900 and have finally reunited after 32 years.
The touching moment Li finally holds her son Mao brings them both to tears.
Li followed more than 300 false leads over the decades, but police finally made a breakthrough in April, 2020.
Li told Chinese media that the police received a tip off about a man in Sichuan province who had bought a child from Shaanxi in the late 1980’s, which is where Mao was taken.
Xi’an officials say that the boy was renamed Gu Ningning and grew up with no knowledge of his birth parents, nor the knowledge he had been abducted and sold.
However, when police tracked down Gu and carried out a DNA test, Li received the news she’d been waiting years to hear.
“I don’t want him to leave me anymore. I won’t let him leave me anymore,” Li said as she held onto her son’s hand.