Li Yanxia: Chinese 'love mother' jailed for fraud

BBC News

A former orphanage owner in China, once nicknamed "Love Mother," has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for extortion, fraud, forgery and disturbing social order, according to this article from BBC News. The court found that the woman, Li Yanxia, had "abused the orphanage's influence" to accrue her own personal wealth. At its peak in 2017, her orphanage housed 118 children, some of whom she manipulated into "hindering work on construction sites - in one instance, making them run under trucks so construction could not continue," according to the article. "Li then blackmailed these construction companies."