Shi Zengchao, a double-faced red merchant, ＂adopted＂ a 7-year-old girl with his mistress for 8 years.
According to The Paper’s report on the 4th, the name of businessman Shi Zengchao once enjoyed a good reputation in Ningbo’s political and business circles: there are many companies under his name, covering textiles, mining and import and export trade; The self-created textile brand "CheTex" went to Africa as early as the beginning of the new century, and the legendary story of ten years of gold digging was frequently reported in newspapers. He is also a caring person who is keen on public welfare and invested in the construction of Hope Primary School in Chishou Township, Songyang County, Lishui City. He was also a member of the economic sector of the Fourth CPPCC in Jiangbei District of Ningbo and a municipal people’s supervisor elected by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Justice in 2015 …
The inflection point appeared on September 7, 2016. On the same day, Wang Meng, a girl adopted by Shi Zengchao for 8 years, reported to Xinming Police Station of Yinzhou Branch of Ningbo Public Security Bureau that she had been molested and raped by Shi Zengchao since she was 7 years old, which lasted for several years. During this period, Huang Chunmiao, one of Shi Zengchao’s mistresses, assisted Shi in raping her several times.After the incident, Shi Zengchao fled Africa (now listed as a Hongtong person). In November of the same year, another suspect, Huang Chunmiao, was criminally detained by Ningbo police.
Recently, The Paper learned about the latest development of this case from the online judgment documents of China. The People’s Court of Yinzhou District, Ningbo City found through trial that,Huang Chunmiao was sentenced to 13 years in prison according to law for committing rape and indecency against girls under the age of 14 for a long time with others, which constituted the crime of rape and child indecency.
Online "looking for a girl": adopting a 7-year-old girl without going through the adoption procedures.
When I first met Huang Chunmiao, whom she later called "Sister Vivi", Wang Meng was only seven years old. In 2001, Wang Meng was born in Beijing. When he was two or three years old, his mother Zhang Guiying left home without her and several other children.
In 2008, Wang Meng’s father died. The first-instance judgment of Huang Chunmiao’s case found that in October 2008, Huang Chunmiao pretended to be Shi Zengchao’s wife and together with Shi Zengchao "adopted" Wang Meng from Wang Meng’s half-sister Wang Yang, but did not go through the adoption formalities.
According to Wang Yang’s testimony, after his father died, he consulted the adoption procedures on the orphanage website and left his own email address, hoping to find someone to adopt Wang Meng. After a month or two, Shi Zengchao contacted him by email address. After they met in Shanghai in mid-September, 2008, Shi Zengchao said that he was busy at work and that his "wife" Huang Chunmiao would contact him in the future. Soon, Wang Meng was "adopted" by Huang Chunmiao at his residence in Ningbo.
Huang Chunmiao, born in 1987, was only a 21-year-old college student. The Yinzhou District Court of Ningbo found out that in the process of communication with Shi Zengchao, Shi Zengchao asked her to post on the Internet to adopt a younger girl, and Huang Chunmiao agreed. It was at this time that Huang Chunmiao saw the mailbox left by Wang Yang under the consultation column of adoption procedures on the orphanage website.
The Paper noted that Article 15 of the Adoption Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) promulgated in December 1991 clearly stipulated that adoption should be registered with the civil affairs department of the people’s government at or above the county level. Where an abandoned baby or child whose biological parents cannot be found is adopted, the civil affairs department that handles the registration shall make an announcement before registration.
In addition, the Adoption Law also stipulates that adoptees refer to minors under the age of 14 who cannot live with their parents due to special reasons, including orphans who have lost their parents, abandoned babies and children who can’t find their biological parents, and children whose biological parents have special difficulties and are unable to raise their children. The adopters prescribed by law should also be guardians of orphans, social welfare institutions and biological parents who have special difficulties and are unable to raise their children.
Wang Meng was "adopted" without going through any formalities. Zhang Guiying, the mother, said that she didn’t know her daughter was no longer in Shanghai until early 2009, and she was "taken away by a Ningbo family with better conditions".
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The "good conditions" in Zhang Guiying’s mouth correspond to the export trade with Africa that Shi Zengchao managed for several years before the incident.
"The story of starting a business can’t be told for three days and three nights, and I am destined for Africa in my life." According to previous media reports, Shi Zengchao has been engaged in textile foreign trade business in Ningbo since he graduated from university in 1994, and in 1998, he established Ningbo Jinsheng Haida Company, which is mainly engaged in African textile fabric business. In March, 1999, Jinsheng Haida set up its first branch in Benin, Africa, and its export value in that year exceeded 10 million US dollars.
Shi Zengchao was interviewed by Ningbo media in Africa.(Source: WeChat WeChat official account "No.4 Qiyang Road")
However, when The Paper consulted the industrial and commercial information, he found that Ningbo Jinsheng Haida Import and Export Co., Ltd. was actually established in February 2005, and its business scope showed food wholesale and retail; Self-management and agency of import and export business of all kinds of goods and technologies; Wholesale and retail of fuel oil, nonferrous metals, chemical products (except dangerous goods) and mineral products.
According to the report of ningbo evening news on October 24th, 2013, at that time, Jinsheng Haida had seven branches in six African countries, mainly in West Africa and East Africa, employing more than 800 African-American employees, and the textile price of its own brand CheTex was even more than 10% more expensive than that of its peers.
At that time, Shi Zengchao also drew a magnificent blueprint for Jinsheng Haida: "I will speed up the establishment of a sales network and channels covering the whole of Africa, and my goal is to be the NIKE of Africa".
On December 19th, 2014, when the first overseas chamber of commerce in Ningbo was established in Benin, Shi Zengchao also publicly stated that CheTex had firmly taken the "top spot" of China textiles in Africa.
According to Phoenix Finance, since 1998, Shi Zengchao has established branches in Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Lomé and other countries. In 2012, he also founded the China-Africa Chamber of Commerce in Nigeria and served as the president himself.
Besides being a successful businessman, Shi Zengchao often appears in public as a caring person.
In 2008, Shi Zengchao and his wife Xie Mou invested to build a teaching building for Chishou Township Central Primary School in Songyang County, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, and later the school was renamed "Chaoning Hope Primary School". On November 15th, 2008, Shi Zengchao went to Chaoning Hope Primary School in Chishou Township to visit teachers and students, and donated more than 2,000 extra-curricular reading materials at the official website of the Communist Youth League Committee in Zhejiang Province. He was accompanied by the then Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee.
With the gradual growth of business, Shi Zengchao’s relationship with local political circles has become increasingly close.In January 2012, Shi Zengchao was elected as a member of the economic sector of the Fourth CPPCC in Jiangbei District, Ningbo. In July 2015, Shi Zengchao was among the first 1,154 people’s supervisors selected by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Justice.
Sexual assault: collaborating with mistresses and raping young girls more than 20 times in three years.
After being adopted by Shi Zengchao, Wang Meng’s nightmare began.
The verdict found that Shi Zengchao had molested Wang Meng and Huang Chunmiao had assisted him.
On November 29th, 2009, Wang Meng ran away from home, unable to bear the indecency. Evidence shows that two days later, Huang Chunmiao went to Jiangxia Police Station of Haishu Branch of Ningbo Public Security Bureau to report that Wang Meng was missing. On December 9 of the same year, Huang Chunmiao took Wang Meng back from Jiangxia police station.
The Yinzhou District Court found that during the three years after Wang Meng returned, Shi Zengchao raped him more than 20 times, and Huang Chunmiao assisted him many times. Since 2012, Shi Zengchao has taken Huang Chunmiao and Wang Meng to live in Jinhua. Huang Chunmiao arranged for Wang Meng to rent alone in a residential area in Wucheng District, and lied to the landlord that Wang Meng was his sister. During this period, Huang Chunmiao would take Wang Meng to the hotel to have sex with Shi Zengchao every once in a while.
In May 2014, Huang Chunmiao brought Wang Meng back to Ningbo at the behest of Shi Zengchao, and rented a house separately in Yinzhou District, and Shi Zengchao paid the rent. Until January 2015, before another mistress of Shi Zengchao, Li Li, moved in, Wang Meng lived alone.
Li Li also admitted in her testimony that she had sex with Shi Zengchao when Wang Meng was present, while Wang Meng was watching TV and playing computer. Li Li also said that the three of them had sex together many times.
In 2015, Shi Zengchao once again changed a residence in the high-tech zone for Wang Meng, but Wang Meng said that history still comes once a week or 10 days.
According to the verdict, in the past eight years, at least three mistresses of Shi Zengchao once had a relationship with Wang Meng.
When it came to light, the suspect fled Africa and a mistress was sentenced to 13 years.
According to the testimony of a mistress named Shen, Shi Zengchao once entrusted her to look for two runaway junior high school girls in a Baidu post bar named "Run away from home" in addition to Wang Meng, who was "adopted". Xu Yan is one of them. In October 2007, she left home and came to Ningbo.
On August 12, 2016, taking advantage of Xu Yan’s stay in Ningbo, Wang Meng went to her hotel and cried that she was sexually assaulted by Shi Zengchao when she was 7 or 8 years old. On August 31 of that year, Wang Meng went to Shanghai to find Xu Yan. "I have been crying about Shi Zengchao." Xu Yan advised her to call the police.
On September 7, 2016, Wang Meng came to Xinming Police Station of Yinzhou Branch of Ningbo Public Security Bureau to report the case. According to Wang Yang’s testimony, after the police intervened in the investigation, Shi Zengchao called Wang Yang, saying that he and Wang Meng were "affectionate", not rape, and hoped to drop the case. Shi Zengchao also asked Wang Yang to persuade Zhang Guiying to do Wang Meng’s ideological work. After Wang Yang refused, the two sides lost contact.
However, the testimony of Shi Zengchao’s other mistress surnamed Mao said that she met Wang Meng in Thailand half a month after he reported the case, that is, on September 23, 2016. When Shi Zengchao met, he said that a girl said that he raped and extorted 200,000 yuan. He didn’t give it, and the girl called the police. The chat record between her and Shi Zengchao retrieved by the police from Wang Meng’s mobile phone shows that Wang Meng once asked why Shi Mochao raped her when she was seven or eight years old. Shi Mochao replied: This matter needs to be interviewed.
However, since mid-September, Shi Zengchao has never appeared in Ningbo. Afterwards, Shi Zengchao’s wife Xie confirmed that he had gone abroad in mid-September 2016 and was in Nigeria, Africa.
On November 22, 2016, Huang Chunmiao in the same case was arrested by the police in the residence of No.76 Baoping Road, Xiguan Street, Wucheng District, Jinhua City.
Shao Jianwei, defender of Huang Chunmiao and lawyer of Zhejiang Shouwang Law Firm, said in court that Huang Chunmiao was an accomplice because he was not deeply involved in the world and could not resist the temptation of money and feelings. In response to this defense opinion, the court finally did not adopt it.
During the trial of the case, Huang Chun Miao’s family paid Wang Meng 100,000 yuan in compensation, and Wang Meng voluntarily gave up other civil compensation claims against Huang Chunmiao and asked the court to give him a lighter punishment.
In December 2017, the People’s Court of Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province found through trial that Huang Chunmiao was sentenced to 13 years in prison for committing rape and indecent assault on girls under the age of 14 with others for a long time, which constituted the crime of rape and indecent assault on children.
The verdict also shows that Shi Zengchao has been pursued by the public security organs by issuing a red wanted order.
In the judgment, witness testimony revealed Shi Zengchao’s QQ number. On July 2, 2018, The Paper became a friend with the QQ account on the judgment, and asked him about the current operation of Shi Zengchao as a job seeker. The other party responded that "there is no recruitment at present". According to media reports, after Shi Zengchao fled to Africa, the company under his name encountered many lawsuits. Zhong Ming, an attorney of some cases and a lawyer of Zhejiang Hechuang Law Firm, said in an interview with the media that Jinsheng Haida Company had suspended its business due to poor management.
(Wang Meng, Wang Yang, Zhang Guiying, Li Li and Xu Yan are pseudonyms)