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Article: Feature: China working to prevent child abuse
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 11, 2007
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Feature: China working to prevent child abuseBy Zhou Yan & Ding
Jing
XI'AN, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- At 17, Chen Cai is skinny and timid
like a child. But six months of forced labor and torture at a
privately-owned brick kiln in north China's Shanxi Province has aged
him before his time.
Chen, who quit school last year to make money for his impoverished
family in the backwaters of southwestern Sichuan Province, was
abducted and sold to the brick yard, where he had towork 20 hours a
day and was subject to whippings at the slightest sign of defiance.
When social workers found him in June during a crackdown on
illegal labor practices, he was suffering from a broken tendon in his
right wrist.
"I had ...