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Man stolen as toddler found 18 years later using FaceApp technology

Man stolen as toddler found 18 years later using FaceApp technology
Man stolen as toddler found 18 years later

A man who was kidnapped as a toddler was reunited with his family after 18 years – when police managed to track him down using face ageing app technology.

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Yu Weifang, 21, this month met his parents for the first time since he was a child – all thanks to the FaceApp-style Al technology created by Chinese tech giant Tencent.

Similar to the trending face ageing app, police used the technology to predict what the 21-year-old would look like now and matched his features to a database with thousands of people.

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Yu Weifang, 21, this month met his parentsย (Photo: Courtesy)

The cold-case investigators in south Chinaโ€™s Guangdong Province used the Al technology along with existing facial recognition intelligence to locate the missing man.

After sorting through nearly 100 potential candidates, officers narrowed them down to 21-year-old Weifang – a student school in China’s Guangzhou province.

(Photo: Courtesy)

Investigator Zheng Zhenhai said: โ€œWhen he found him, he refused to believe that he was a kidnapped child, but DNA confirmed that he was a match with his biological parents.โ€

Weifang, whose adoptive parents named Li, went missing in 2001 near a construction site where his father worked.

His parents filed a missing person report and the incident was treated as a kidnapping case.

Yu Weifang as a childย (Photo: Courtesy)

His biological parents Yu Xingquan and Rong Muhuan searched high and low in neighbouring cities but could not find any trace of their missing son.

They even offered a reward of Sh1.5 million for anyone with information at the time.

-sde.co.ke

 

Man stolen as toddler found 18 years later using FaceApp technology

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