Chapter 228 We Can Finally Go Home_1
"How can you arrest me! The child was abducted by human traffickers! You should be going after the traffickers, not me!" Mrs. Luo was incredibly agitated, utterly unable to comprehend the authorities’ actions, her face screaming injustice.
She had spent money to buy something yet still had to go to jail—where in the world did such logic exist!
With each word that came out of Xia Ningxing’s mouth, it was laden with hatred and fury, "Do you think just because you spent money buying a child who was trafficked, you wouldn’t have to go to jail?"
Mrs. Luo’s eyes widened in shock—she truly didn’t know.
People like them, who had lived here generation after generation, neither educated nor informed, nor venturing beyond their surroundings, were the very essence of ’blind people’. They were completely unaware that such acts would result in jail time, thinking it was the same as any legal transaction where you simply spent money to purchase goods.
Even if they were indeed supposed to go to jail, they felt it should be the traffickers who were incarcerated. After all, it was the traffickers who kidnapped the people, nothing to do with the buyers.
Xia Ningxing really didn’t want to exchange another word with such people. It was infuriating!
Just as Xia Ningxing and the others were about to leave, there was another commotion in the crowd.
ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ ɴoᴠel Fɪre.nᴇt
A woman suddenly burst forth, her face smeared with tears, "Wait, please, take me with you, officials. I was also sold by these people. I was originally a decent family’s daughter, but I was deceived and brought here alive..."