The video capturing the long-term captivity of a chained woman, mother of eight children, in rural Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province has shocked the whole world. Many believe that the woman is a victim of human trafficking and had been reduced to a reproductive tool. The pervasive crime of trafficking in females is rampant in China, and the reasons run deep. Unfortunately, it is difficult to accurately ascertain the number of women in China who have been trafficked, but past state media reports provide some evidence of the tally. On Feb. 16, 2015, reporters of the Legal Daily, a state-run Chinese newspaper, learned from the regime’s Ministry of Public Security that more than 30,000 trafficked females were rescued in 2014. Legal Daily also reported that on March 29, 2012, reporters learned from China’s anti-trafficking training course that as of 2009, a total of 23,341 cases of abduction and trafficking of thousands of …