Even After My Death
Chapter 469 - 377: The Final Punishment of the Bad Guys

Chapter 469: Chapter 377: The Final Punishment of the Bad Guys

Wangjiang Public Security and the police of Q city published an announcement, detailing the entire criminal history of the suspects over the years for netizens. At the same time, the Q city police also issued a list of victims.

On the list, all the information about children who had been sold privately by Cen Yufang and others over the years was recorded. Important information regarding privacy was redacted by the police.

Among these children who were sold, nine and a half out of ten were taken away secretly by the hospital for other reasons without the knowledge of their parents and family members, who are still being kept in the dark to this day.

Only a small fraction of the babies were abandoned by their biological parents or sold to the hospital at a low price before being resold by the hospital. However, this proportion is very small and almost negligible.

In this world, there may be parents who don’t love their children, but they are very, very few.

During this period, the police were investigating and gathering evidence while interrogating Cen Yufang and others individually.

But no matter how the police questioned her, Cen Yufang clenched her teeth and, besides admitting to the transaction with Jiang Ning involving the child she sold this time, refused to acknowledge any other deals or disclose information.

Even when other staff members could not withstand the pressure and confessed to a lot, Cen Yufang claimed it was everyone else throwing dirt at her.

Finally, with no other recourse, the police presented the anonymous email they had received, printing out the victim list from it and putting it in front of Cen Yufang. Only then did Cen Yufang panic, thinking the police had uncovered it themselves, and confessed to her crimes.

In recent days, the police of A city have been as busy as bees in spring, gathering evidence, interrogating criminals, arresting other suspects, contacting the parents of these children, and tracking down the whereabouts of the children. They were incredibly busy.

After thoroughly investigating everything, they finally dare to give the general public an account online.

After reading it, netizens cursed and spat:

[Don’t ask, the answer is the death penalty!!!]

[Support execution by firing squad!]

[A malignant tumor of society, it must be severely punished and completely eradicated!]

[The pain strikes deep inside when I see the names of these children on the list. Babies eagerly awaited by their parents, only to be sold as soon as they were born. Thanks to Jiang Ning for exposing all of this, otherwise who knows how many families and children would be harmed.]

[Thought they were angels, turned out to be demons.]

[Sigh! The first child sold on the list was born in 2010, which means this baby is now nine years old. Damn it, a nine-year-old child can remember things. Even if their biological parents went to recognize them, the child would probably only recognize the buyers as their mom and dad. How heartbreaking for the real parents.]

[One should support treating buying and selling as the same crime. It takes two to clap, and if there was no profit to be made, Cen Yufang and her accomplices wouldn’t risk their lives to do this. ]

[The day before yesterday, my uncle received a call from the police, saying that my aunt hadn’t bled excessively, and the baby hadn’t died from lack of oxygen but was a healthy boy sold to Heng County six years ago... When my uncle got this call, he smashed things and burst into tears on the spot, and my mom also cried with him.

My aunt was already thirty-five when she got pregnant with this child, and it was a long-awaited pregnancy. After the hospital told them the child was gone, my aunt jumped off a building three days after being discharged, not even having completed her confinement, because she wanted to see her ill-fated baby.

Now that the child has been found, what’s the use? My aunt can never come back.

The day before yesterday, our entire family followed the police officers overnight to see the baby. A cute little boy cuddled in the arms of the couple that bought him, crying and fussing at the sight of my uncle and refusing to let us touch him.]

[Our village’s tofu-selling couple was one of the victims this time around. The tofu shop owner had gone to the maternity and child health care hospital to give birth the year before last. In the early stages of pregnancy, they meticulously compared many hospitals and ultimately chose this one. Later, she safely gave birth to a daughter. It was only a few days ago that they received a notification from the police, revealing that they also had a son... Now, the tofu shop has been closed for nearly a week, and no one knows what’s going on.]

[My God, how suffocating. Who could bear such a thing!]

[There’s a saying I saw somewhere: "When you see one cockroach, there are actually a thousand cockroaches crawling in the dark.]

The maternity and child health care issues exposed by Jiang Ning are undoubtedly just the tip of an iceberg of society’s dark side. In other places, who knows how many demons there are like Cen Yufang.]

[Cen Yufang lives in our community, and since the day the incident broke, her family hasn’t shown their faces. Lots of people went to her house to break down the door, smash the furniture, and throw feces and urine...]

[There are two suspects who live on the same street as me, and their families have been retaliated against as well; even their children are ostracized and isolated, haven’t gone to school these past few days, and may have to move as well.]

[They deserve it! No sympathy! They have children of their own, yet they sell other people’s kids. I wish I could personally be there to smash their skulls in!]

[...]

Cen Yufang and others, for their own selfish gains, harmed many families and caused severe damage to society.

Follow-up: The mastermind, Cen Yufang, was sentenced to death, while the other accomplices received various sentences ranging from suspended death sentences to terms of seven to twenty years in prison, in addition to fines and financial compensation. Those who had been helping Cen Yufang behind the scenes were also brought to justice by the law.

The municipal maternity and child health care hospital were thoroughly investigated by the authorities and faced reformation and a fine of six hundred thousand yuan.

Incidentally, Yuan Zhengjuan and Chen Deshuang, the couple caught by Jiang Ning a few days ago, were the same. One exploited their position of authority to charge high-interest rates to the families of patients desperately needing help, akin to extortion, while the other forged medical records and sold various illegitimate health medications.

When confronted by police with the evidence laid out before them, the couple confessed to their crimes, receiving sentences of three and six years of fixed-term imprisonment, respectively. Their ill-gotten gains were confiscated, and they were fined one hundred thousand yuan and one hundred thirty-six thousand yuan respectively.

Zhang Yonghao and Yuan Zhenyang, who were sent behind bars by Jiang Ning during a live broadcast, were also found by the police to have dirty dealings, their crimes even more severe than those of Yuan Zhengjuan and Chen Deshuang.

Moreover, both of them had powerful backers, but in the end, with the help of police investigations and the evidence provided in the emails sent by Jiang Ning’s System, the entire network behind the two was arrested and brought to justice.

Ultimately, the two were convicted on multiple charges and sentenced to ten and twelve years of fixed-term imprisonment and were also required to pay fines.

There were also the fraud suspects initially caught by Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou across from the hospital. Following the information discovered by the police on the mastermind’s computer and the anonymous list sent by Jiang Ning, the police quickly mobilized, rounding up all the other criminal suspects scattered throughout the country.

These online freelancers included jobless drifters, office workers looking for side gigs to boost their income, college students like Shen Guang, Bao Huai, and Chang Sunhuang who were not yet in the workforce, as well as young mothers at home taking care of the elderly and children...

When the police showed up at their doors, many had bewildered expressions on their faces. It wasn’t until they felt the cold steel of the silver bracelets locked around their wrists that they realized they had actually committed crimes.

Some, like Chang Sunhuang and his peers, knew that what they were doing was wrong but were reluctant to give up the small benefits in front of them and held onto the hope that they wouldn’t get caught. It was only after the police arrested them that they regretted their actions, but it was too late.

Awaiting them was the law’s ruthless and fair punishment.

But that’s all a story for another time.