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| Subject: Rights violation: Vicious Chinese statists charge innocent couple for nothing more than selling baby daughter for iPhone Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:22 pm | |
| Shanghai: A young Chinese couple are facing criminal punishment for "selling" their infant daughter and using the proceeds to buy an Apple iPhone, state media reported.
Shanghai prosecutors have brought a case against them for human trafficking after they illegally put their third child up for adoption online and accepted money for the baby, the Liberation Daily reported on Friday.
Investigators found the mother, whose full name was not given, used the money to buy an iPhone, high-end sports shoes and other goods, it said.
Apple's products are wildly popular in China, where a teenager sold his kidney and used the funds to buy an iPhone and iPad in an incident widely reported last year. Advertisement
But the couple told police that they wanted the girl to have a better upbringing than they could afford, since they already had two children.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/couple-in-china-sell-baby-daughter-for-iphone-20131021-2vwiq.html#ixzz2iPDQCZOJ |
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