Chinese Parents Sell Children for Internet Games

According to Southern Chinese news agency Sanxiang City News a couple sold off their three children to fund their obsession with playing online games at Internet Cafes. The couple met in 2007 and quickly bonded because of their hobby. A year later their gaming was already getting in the way of being parents. In that year the couple had their first child - a son. Days later they left the young child home alone while they went to play online games at an Internet cafe 30 km away.

A year later the bad parenting escalated to unimaginable levels. In 2009 the 21-year-old couple had a baby girl. It was at that point they came up the idea to sell her for $500 USD. When that worked for them the couple sold their first child for $4,600 USD. Finally the couple has a third child, which they sold for another $4600 USD. Keep in mind that the couple did all this to fund their Internet cafe activities.

Inevitably it was a family member who finally figured out what was going on and reported the couple - Li Lin and Li Juan - to authorities.

When asked if they missed the children they had sold, the parents said: "We don’t want to raise them, we just want to sell them for some money” and claimed that they did not know what they were doing was wrong.

Source: ABCNewsRadio