"The family of a 17-year-old Myanmar woman trafficked to China more than a year and a half ago said Wednesday that relatives recently had contact with her but they fear that her Chinese abductor might sell her again, amid efforts by NGOs and anti-human trafficking authorities to locate and rescue her. In April 2018, a local couple from the teenager’s neighborhood in Taungoo township in southern central Myanmar’s Bago region told her they could arrange for her to get a job in China, where salaries for blue-collar work are higher than they are in Myanmar, the young woman’s mother said. Unbeknownst to the young woman, Thuzar Aye, the couple were brokers for human traffickers, and once she was in their hands, the person for whom they worked sold her to a Chinese man in the border town of Ruili across the river from Muse in Myanmar’s northern Shan state, her mother said. Thuzar Aye was forced to have the man’s baby later that year, she said. Now that Thuzar Aye’s family recently had contact with the teenager, her relatives are worried that she might be sold again to someone else..."