Chinese Sell Children

A Chinese couple are being reprimanded for selling their children to fund video game addiction


Video game addiction has always been a hot topic and there will always be arguments for and against children and young adults being overexposed to the effects of them.

In a bizarre story, that certainly won’t help matters, Chinese newspaper Sanxiang City News, has reported that Li Lin and Li Juan, a young Chinese couple, both below the age of 21, have sold all three of their children to fund gaming addiction.

The pair, who met in an internet café in 2007, claim they weren’t aware that doing so was against the law, and now face crimes for selling their children and breaking the strict one child per family policy that China enforces.

 

 

Allegedly they sold their daughter, the younger of two at the time, in 2009 for a fee of around $500, but after going back and discovering their eldest boy would reach up to $4,650, as male heirs are far more desirable, they sold him and quickly had a third, who went for a similar price.

In a related story, a Chinese teenager took extreme measures to get his hands on an Apple iPad 2 recently, by selling one of his kidneys to assist the purchase.



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Craig Bryan, NoobFeed
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