China Global reported that a young Chinese couple sold their 6 day old son for $366. Then they used the money to buy a new cell phone. If that wasn’t bad enough, the father then tried to re-sell the boy for four times the original price.
Kung Pao Baby or a new cell phone?
Is life so cheap in China that a baby is worth a mere cell phone? The couple, 21 and 19 years old, believed they were financially unable to raise a child, and so traded him in for the newest model of phone. Perhaps the monthly cell phone provider rates may be less than the cost of baby formula. (Certainly this nurturing young mother wouldn’t have been considering breast feeding.)
Could they seriously be considering returning the boy to these mercenary parents? There are conflicting reports that the Chinese police are either working to get the boy out of the welfare system and back with his parents or are investigating pending criminal charges. I personally think they ought to arrest the parents. Perhaps mandatory sterilization wouldn’t be out of the question, but then they would probably turn to trading off body parts for transplants to get their newest cell phones.
That new cell phone better be pretty special! Selling a baby…. Of course, some species eat their young. Kung Pao Baby anyone?
