Man tricks professor into bigamous marriage

A married farmer in Anlu, Hubei province, tricked a female university professor into marrying him bigamously and the two had a son, Chutian Metropolis Daily reported on Thursday.

The man, surnamed Peng, 46, married a woman surnamed Yu in the 1990s and the couple went to work in Yiwu, Zhejiang province. In 2009, after a quarrel with his wife, Peng returned to Hubei and was attracted by a marriage-seeking advertisement in a newspaper when he arrived at the railway station in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province.

He phoned the woman who placed the advertisement, who was a professor at a university in Wuhan, and the two got to know each other. In 2010, Peng and the professor started living together and registered their marriage in September of that year. The marriage registration office failed to learn of Peng's existing marriage because his marital status had not been updated online.

In 2013, Yu learned of Peng's marriage to the professor and traveled to Wuhan to take Peng back to Yiwu. The professor reported the situation to police. Peng was caught in Yiwu recently and detained by police for bigamy. The case is still under investigation.