1st LD-Writethru: China court upholds death sentence for woman in child trafficking case

GUIYANG, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A court in southwest China's Guizhou Province upheld the death sentence for Yu Huaying, a woman convicted of abducting and trafficking 17 children, in a second trial on Thursday.

Yu was found to have abducted children from Guizhou, Chongqing and Yunnan along with her accomplices, and sold them for profit in the city of Handan in Hebei Province between 1993 and 2003.

Yu was ini