Couple Jailed For Selling Their Baby For An Ipad

A young Chinese couple are facing many
years in jail after allegedly selling their baby
daughter to raise money for an iPhone and
other luxury goods.
The couple, identified only as Miss Zhang
and Mr Teng, are said to have placed
anonymous advertisements in newspapers
suggesting they would be willing to part
with their baby – unborn at that stage – in
exchange for 50,000 yuan (about £5,000).
Police in Shanghai have charged the couple
with human trafficking after accepting
money for the baby, who was born at home
and still only weeks, or months old, when
sold.
Having received the money, which was
deposited in their bank account, the couple
went out on a spending spree, using part of
the proceeds to buy an iPhone and
trainers, Daily Mail reports. The
unemployed couple, who have two other
children, were also accused of using the
money to purchase a number of luxury
goods.
In an attempt to hide that they were behind
the sale of a child, the couple tried to
conceal the fact that Miss Zhang was
pregnant and she had even gone to the
length of giving birth at home.
They are said to have told neighbours that
the baby bump during Miss Zhang’s
pregnancy was a tumour.
They are understood to have told
prosecutors that they were acting in their
daughter’s best interests, claiming they had
hoped to find a home for her with a
financially stable family who would be able
to provide her with an eduction. But
prosecutors said they believed the couple’s
bank records show they had hatched a
‘sinister conspiracy’ to profit from the sale
of the baby.
IPhones are a sought-after commodity in
China and only last year seven people were
jailed in Hunan province for their role in
the purchase of a kidney from a teenage
boy, who used the money to buy an iPhone
and an iPad.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
article-2465820/Couple-China-sell-baby-
daughter-5-000-buy-iPhone.html
http://newsinigeria.blogspot.com/2013/10/
couple-sentenced-for-selling-their-
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