32 Year Search For Missing Child Yields Positive Result

32 year search for a missing child has yielded a positive result, as the child has now been reunited with his biological parents.

It is the story of both faith and doggedness as the parents never gave up hope that one day, they would find their missing bundle of joy.

The Chinese boy, now man, was kidnapped as a toddler 32 years ago, but the police using facial recognition technology were able to help track him down.

It was in 1988 that Mao Yin, just two, was snatched outside a hotel in Xi’an in central Shaanxi province in and sold to a childless couple in neighbouring Sichuan province who raised him as their own son, Xi’an’s public security bureau said in a statement.

Police “aged” one of Mao’s childhood photos, according to state broadcaster CCTV, and used the model to scan the national database and find close matches of the missing child.

They were acting on a tipoff that a person in a certain area of Sichuan had bought a child in the late ’80s.

On Monday, the now 34-year-old had a tearful reunion with his birth parents who had never given up the search for their missing boy.

Mao’s mother Li Jingzhi told CCTV that after he was taken, she quit her job and sent over 100,000 flyers to officials and appeared on several TV channels to appeal for his return.

Over the past three decades, Li had followed 300 false leads to see if they were her missing child.

But in late April, police in Xi’an were tipped off that a man in Sichuan province had bought a child from Shaanxi in the late 1980s, according to the statement from Xi’an officials.

Police tracked down Mao and later confirmed he was the abducted son of Li Jingzhi after a DNA test.

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Mao’s adoptive parents had renamed him Gu Ningning, and he grew up without any knowledge of his birth parents or that he had been abducted.

At the reunion event, organised by Xi’an police, Mao emerged from a side door to a conference room and ran into his mother’s arms.