Family Uses Facial Recognition to Reunite with 32 Years Missing Child
A family finally reunited with the man who was lost after being abducted 32 years ago with the help of facial recognition technology.
Mao Yin was abducted in 1988 when he was two years old while outside of a hotel in the Chinese city of Xi’an in Shaanxi Province. Yin was then sold to a childless couple in the neighboring Sichuan province, according to Chinese state-broadcaster CCTV.
Authorities stated that they are still investigating the preliminary abduction and did not release further information about Mao’s adoptive parents. According to the article of CNN, Mao was raised as Gu Ningning by his adoptive parents, without knowing that his real mother had actually been looking for him for almost 3 years.
In late April, cops in Xian received an information that a man in Sichuan province had bought a child from Shaanxi in the late 1980s. Authorities used facial recognition innovation to analyze an old photo of Mao when he was a young boy and now in his 34-year-old image.
The photos were compared with other photos from the national database. t did not provide information regarding the database or the procedure how they compare the images of Mao.
After a series of examinations and investigations, authorities located a man in the city of Mianyang where a resemblance of Mao appeared. Cops later verified that he was the missing son using a DNA Test.
On Monday, Mao finally reunited his biological parents at a news conference held by the Xi’an police. Emerging from a side door of the conference hall, Mao called out to his mom, Li Jingzhi, and ran towards her.
The family of three broke down in tears in a lengthy welcome, the livestream of the press conference was broadcast live by CCTV showed. Mao, that currently runs a residence design organization in Sichuan, stated he would certainly reside in Xi’an with his real parents.
After the disappearance of Mao, his mother, Li stop her job and dedicated herself to the quest of looking for her child. Li sent out thousands of flyers and went numerous nationwide TV programs.
She additionally ended up being a volunteer, collecting details regarding various missing kids and also helping 29 of them reunite with their families. Meanwhile, Mao said that he has seen Li in TV several times not knowing that she was his mother.
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