Blood should be thicker than water, but some might disregard the value of familial relationships just to fuel their own interests.
This was the case for one Chinese grandfather addicted to gambling, who had kidnapped his own granddaughter in order to pay off his 500,000 yuan (S$96,600) debt.
The criminal case which was reported in the Shanghai Law Journal began when the 65-year-old man, surnamed Yuan, had picked up his four-year-old granddaughter from school, reported the South China Morning Post today (April 25).
Yuan then proceeded to threaten his own daughter, claiming that “you won’t see your daughter again” unless a ransom of 500,000 yuan was paid to him in three days, on top of a death threat.
The daughter subsequently filed a p…
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