Parents of child beggars offered legal aid

The families of children rescued from beggars on the streets of Beijing are being urged to use legal aid to sue the youngsters' kidnappers.

By calling the capital's long-running 12348 hotline, impoverished victims from across China can get free consultations and services from the Beijing Legal Aid Center.

The reminder comes after intense media coverage of a campaign to rescue youths from the clutches of criminal gangs, with citizens encouraged to take pictures of street children and share them on the Internet.