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A man in China was sentenced to prison after kidnapping his own granddaughter and attempting to extort ransom money from his family to support his gambling addiction.
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According to legal news outlet the Shanghai Law and Rule Journal where the kidnapping was first reported, the 65-year-old Shanghai resident, identified only as Yuan, began serving his sentence on April 18. It did not specify when the crime occurred.
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Take out 500,000 yuan in three days, or youll never see your precious daughter again! Yuan told his daughter, the Journal detailed.
She called her father and pleaded with him to release her, with little success.
Yuan was then arrested after his daughter reported the incident to…
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