Why were two girls trafficked while seeking employment?

Last year, college student Li Wenxing applied for a job through the recruitment website "BOSS Direct Recruitment", but was suspected of being deceived into a pyramid scheme and eventually died. This case has attracted widespread attention from the whole society, and the first part of this tragedy - the role and responsibility of the Internet recruitment platform, has also been re-examined. Similar security issues still exist. Recently, the Shanghai Minhang District Procuratorate launched a public prosecution against a number of criminal suspects for trafficking women through Internet recruitment websites.

Xiao Fei (pseudonym), a young girl from Changzhou, like many young people who are new to society, looks for job opportunities through a well-known domestic recruitment website. On June 17, 2017, she saw that a bar in Changzhou was recruiting waiters and submitted her resume to the position through the website. The next day, a man named Hu, who claimed to be the recruiter, added her WeChat account and agreed on the time and place for the interview.

At the bar, Xiaofei met Hu, who claimed to be the interviewer, and another man, Ye. After the interview, Hu said that the salary of KTV waiters in Shanghai was higher, and persuaded Xiaofei to go to Shanghai to work for a month, and then take her back after a month to continue working in the bar. Xiaofei agreed, not knowing that he had stepped into a trap.

On June 19, Hu hired a car to take Xiaofei to a hotel in Shanghai and sold her to Gu, who opened a massage parlor. Xiaofei, who was unfamiliar with the place, was forcibly taken to live in Gu's home, and her mobile phone and ID card were confiscated. She was also forced to work in a massage parlor, but Xiaofei strongly resisted. Not long after, Xiaofei sneaked away when there were few people in the store. A kind person in a hotel took her in, let her hide in a box, bought her clothes and shoes, and sent her to the bus station. After the bus driver learned about the situation, he sent her directly to the nearest police station. Later, the police rescued another girl from somewhere in the valley who was also defrauded while looking for a job as a waitress through the recruitment website.

On December 14, 2017, the Shanghai Minhang District Procuratorate prosecuted the criminal suspect Gu on suspicion of bribery and trafficking in women. Gu was sentenced to six years in prison and fined by the Minhang District People's Court. Gold 5,000 yuan. On March 15, 2018, the Minhang District Procuratorate prosecuted the criminal suspect Hu on suspicion of abduction and trafficking of women in accordance with the law. Hu was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison by the Minhang District People's Court, deprived of political rights for one year, and punished 10,000 yuan in gold. On March 27, 2018, the Minhang Procuratorate approved the arrest of Ye on suspicion of trafficking in women. The case has now entered the review and prosecution stage.

Although the victim in this case, Xiao Fei, escaped and Hu and three others who committed illegal and criminal acts were also punished by law, recruitment websites are increasingly becoming the main information channel for young people to find jobs, but one after another The various cases that have occurred have made the potential safety hazards that cannot be ignored.

After the Li Wenxing case last year, reports revealed that many people who applied for jobs through recruitment websites had encountered interview scams. The other party either promised high false salaries, or induced them to pay money to participate in training, or Providing false positions, etc., or even worse, taking the opportunity to commit crimes like Hu and others. In this regard, some online recruitment platforms argue that they are just a platform for information release, and the publishers should be responsible for the authenticity of the information. They do not have the ability to review all information one by one.

In fact, regarding the responsibility of online platforms to review user identities, the Cybersecurity Law, which came into effect in June last year, has made clear provisions: users are not required to provide their true identity information, or they are not required to provide their true identity information. If users of identity information provide relevant services, the relevant competent authorities shall order them to make corrections; if they refuse to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, they shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan, and may be ordered by the relevant competent authorities to suspend relevant business, suspend business for rectification, or Close the website, revoke the relevant business license or revoke the business license, and impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan on the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel.

For some online platforms Xuancheng is "incapable of conducting audits", legal professionals believe that online recruitment platforms should conduct basic identity audits of recruiting units, such as requiring business licenses and verifying the authenticity of the business licenses , at the same time, the identity of the individual responsible for registering an account on its platform should also be reviewed, such as requiring the authorization documents of the recruiting unit, or requiring the use of corporate email for identity verification, etc.