A touching moment was caught on video: a mother and son, separated 31 years ago, found each other despite the circumstances. At some point Zhou Jiaying stopped believing that she would ever see her son again, but he found her himself!
The story is told by the Daily Mail. In 1990, three-year-old Tao and his mother Zhou Jiaying were the victims of kidnapping. The attackers, who turned out to be their neighbors, sold a mother and son into labor slavery in the Chinese province of Shandong.
A few months later, Zhou managed to escape from captivity & mdash; the woman guessed the moment when she found herself without overseers. But without Tao. Zhou soon returned for him, but found no one in the house where they were being held. Probably, the family of slaveholders was afraid of exposure and fled from the place. Their neighbors in the village told Zhou: go away!
The local authorities refused to investigate the case of the disappearance. Zhou was desperate, having lost all the threads leading to the child who was taken away to no one knows where. She returned to this village several times, but could not find any clues.
At this time, Tao worked in the family that stole him: he took care of children and the elderly. Later, the guy was released from slavery, and a new family adopted him. But they didn’t want to help Tao find his real mother.
And Tao always dreamed of finding his mother. He graduated from university, got a job, got married, but thoughts about her did not let him go.With the help of volunteers, he tracked Zhou’s path after being rescued from slavery and found her new place of residence. Tao went to a meeting.
Zhou was stunned, she could not cope with her feelings and began to sob. And then & mdash; thank everyone who helped Theo find her.
The problem of slavery in China has not disappeared since 1991. According to the Global Slavery Index, in 2016, more than 3.8 million people lived in modern slavery in China – this is 3 people for every thousand inhabitants of the country.