NEWS: Chinese couple sells kids to afford gaming

According to the Sanxiang City News, the second child of Li Lin and Li Juan was sold for less than $500, while their first and third child were sold for around $4600 shortly after.

The couple was turned in after Li Lin, the father, told his mother what happened. She took them to the police, where they apparently showed no remorse.

The parents are young and naive, so when asked about their nefarious deeds, they stated that they were unaware what they were doing is illegal. “We didn’t want to raise them,” they said. “We just want to sell them for some money.”

The couple met in an Internet cafe in 2007, and shortly after meeting quickly consummated the relationship and moved in together, spending most of their time playing video games in Internet cafes. Shortly after their first child was born in 2008, they left it at home and traveled 30km to play video games.

Parents of the year, these two are.

Arkanay wrote:Not wanting to enter into stereotypical matters but many chinese people have a much different mentality than Europeans and Americans. It's also part of their culture to accept things we believe are wrong.

LordRemington wrote:
Sort of, but I don't think China is that culturally different that that sort of thing would be considered acceptable to do, otherwise the mother of the accused man wouldn't have gone to the authorities.