“An unemployed couple will stand trial in Shanghai for allegedly selling their baby and using the proceeds to bankroll an online shopping spree, including the purchase of an iPhone,” Tom Phillips reports for The Telegraph.
“The couple, named only as Mr Teng and Ms Zhang, began posting online adverts for the child in June this year, Shanghai’s Jiefang Daily newspaper reported on Friday,” Phillips reports. “The adverts suggested they would be willing to part with their unborn baby in exchange for up to 50,000 yuan (£5,070). After a home birth, designed to cover-up the crime, they handed over the baby girl and received a large cash payment into their bank account on the very same day.”
“Mr Teng and Ms Zhang reportedly told prosecutors they were acting in their daughter’s best interests, claiming they had hoped to place her with a financially stable family who could provide an education,” Phillips reports. “However, prosecutors believe the couple’s bank records clearly show they had in fact hatched a ‘sinister conspiracy’ to profit from the child’s sale. One credit card bill shows that immediately after ‘trading’ the baby girl, the couple spent large amounts of cash on the internet, it was reported. Among their purchases was an iPhone…”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Well, now, there’s a Shanghai Surprise.
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It’s only a headline because “iPhone” was in the shopping spree.
the crime are those who purchased the child.
There are many people desperate to give a loving home to unwanted children. These criminals should be lined up and shot…or something.
What’s more likely these days is a sold kid, typically a daughter, ends up in sex slavery. The parents knew that. 😯
you don’t buy people.
. . . only politicians 😉
Yes, you do. Adoption in America is a thinly veiled marketplace. If you have roughly $30K to spend you can adopt.
well, of course you can, I am saying it is wrong. You don’t buy and sell people.
In the US they go shopping at Victoria’s Secret. At least this baby was wanted by someone. The baby will have a better life now.
How do you think the baby was made in the first place?
It;s a Secret.
That is just plain wrong the parents should do prison time.
I said “headline” not a sentence from a judge & jury.
What did they name it?…
“iBaby.
or
“iKid”?
I wanna have at least an iPhone and new iMac for my kid
ARE YOUR CRAZZY!!!
You can get an iPod too.
Let’s hope it was at least an iPhone 5S. Imagine selling your baby for a 5C
wow what a twisted, wicked, shameless turn of events for these psychotic lovers in shanghai
New York City mayor sends note to zoning committee: “No more Apple stores near adoption agencies.”
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He also is putting regulations prohibiting smart phone memory larger than 32GB, because people who consume more than 32GB of memory are wasting too much time on their smart phones, and therefore NYC must regulate them for their own protection.
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If you devalue life enough, it falls below the value of an iPhone.
China’s one-child policy encourages couple to break the law in order to have sex-selective abortions. This practice is widespread. Yes, the Chinese murder their baby girls in the womb because they are not boys. China performs over 25 million abortions per year.
In the world over, there are approximately 125,000 abortions per day. According to the WHO, there are an estimated 40-50 million abortions per year. In the U.S. where abortion is legal, 22% – nearly 1 in 5 – of all pregnancies end in abortion.
Again, if you devalue life enough, it falls below the value of an iPhone.
The karma on this sickening, pervasive infanticide will not be pretty.
the inherent evil of socialism in action.
The abortion rate in China is only a few percentage points higher than it is in virtuous, capitalist America.
who said America isn’t socialist?
WTF has this idiotic story got to do with Socialism?
China is communist.
“Again, if you devalue life enough, it falls below the value of an iPhone.”
Yup. If you devalue life enough you might even
– launch huge, expensive wars on trumped up evidence of WMDs.
– sell death sticks, KNOWING your product is addictive and kills massive numbers of people
– continue to sell that product, even after you’ve admitted in court that you know it kills that massive number of people. (Why they’re not all up on conspiracy to commit mass murder is a crime in itself.)
– drill deep in the Gulf of Mexico, knowing you have no technology in place to fix any problems
And much, much more.
Socialism? China? Well — no.
You left out continuing to permit the sale of alcohol, permitting motor vehicles to travel faster than 25 mph, continuing to allow older buildings in earthquake-prone regions like L.A. to exist, deforestation, and not requiring inflatable fire-proof protection bubbles in every seat on every airplane.
US military casualties up 500% since Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama Messiah took office. (and counting)
Apparently, in the mind of Seamus, since the Afghanistan War isn’t on CiaNN 24/7, it no longer exists. The medium is the message.
What business is it of yours if somebody has an abortion?
What business is it of yours if I shoot your mother in the face?
What a scummy comment, even by your own despicable standards.
define life, Mr. Standards.
Nope, sorry, I don’t answer to you, asshole. You are SO fucking angry and so bitter; why do you even come here? Go hole up in your bunker with your guns, your MREs, and your gold.
I have no gold, I have no bunker, I have no guns, I have no MRE’s..unlike yourself, I have the utmost respect for all life. That is the difference civilization and barbarism. That is the difference between you and I.
Bullshit… you have respect for no one and nothing, yourself included.
I respect life, freedom, intelligence, the qualities none of which you possess.
Go ahead, be my guest, have the last word.
Its gonna take a couple of the new mac pros at the minimum if you want my little angel 😉
Here I had it all wrong I was offering up a gold iPhone if someone would take mine. 😉
There is only one reasonable conclusion: FIRE TIM COOK!!!!
Actually, the term ‘sterilization’ came to mind. Oh, they already have that over there too. I guess they missed these two ace parents.
Well said.
Wait people pay for kids!?
Time to post a new ad on Craigslist!
I am reminded of the ancient pagan god ‘Moloch’ to whom people would sacrifice their babies in order to bring good fortune.
Toss the baby down the chute into the fire below and
YEAH! Let’s hit Los Vegas baby!
De-Civilization. Dehumanization. Short term thinking, long term disaster. Poor kid.
Despicable.
I thought there was zero unemployment in the Communist utopia.
Anyone want to buy a 15 year old boy?
lol, yeah your parents when you were 15.
Wait! Didn’t they know the phone was running iOS 7?! What were they thinking??!
/S