Illegal 'hospital' symptom of social neglect

POLICE IN the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region rescued 19 people from a so-called psychiatric nursing hospital, which was used by a gang to house people with mental health problems they had kidnapped. The victims were kept in the "hospital" while ransoms were extorted from their families. The Beijing News reads:

A few years ago, the revelations of the forced labor used in Shanxi's brickyards shocked the country. Similar incidents of forced labor have been exposed since then, and many of those found working as slave labor were mentally ill. The illegal "psychiatric hospital" in Guangxi that has existed for 13 years was a variation of the same idea, kidnapping people with mental health problems and holding them hostage to make illegal gains.

Crimes of this sort are despicable.