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palak United States. Jul 27 2011 00:46. Posts 4601 | | |
| | A young Chinese couple has sold all three of their children in exchange for money to play online games at Internet cafes, reports a southern Chinese newspaper.
According to Sanxiang City News, the couple met in an Internet cafe back in 2007 and bonded over their obsession with online video games. A year later, the parents -- who are both under 21 -- welcomed their first child, a son. Days after his birth, they left him home alone while they went to play online games at an Internet cafe 30 km away.
In 2009, Li Lin and Li Juan welcomed their second child, a baby girl, and came up with the idea to sell her for money to fund their online game obsession. They did so, receiving RMB 3,000 (less than $500), which they spent entirely shortly after. The couple then proceeded to sell their first child and got 10 times as much for him -- RMB 30,000, or about $4600.
Upon having their third child -- another boy -- the parents followed in their previous footsteps and also got RMB 30,000 for him.
They were finally turned into authorities when Li Lin’s mother found out what her son and his girlfriend had done.
When asked if they missed their children, the parents answered, "We don’t want to raise them, we just want to sell them for some money.”
Sanxiang City News reports the couple didn't know they were breaking the law.
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http://abcnewsradioonline.com/world-n...-three-kids-to-play-online-games.html
Another article on the same thing.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/c...-of-their-kids-to-fund-online-gaming/
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Stroggoz New Zealand. Jul 27 2011 01:06. Posts 5328 | | | |
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| One of 3 non decent human beings on a site of 5 people with between 2-3 decent human beings | |
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chinese to english translations always sound so lol imo (the quote @ the end)
but holy crap that's messed up
pretty unlikely the girl has a good future.. but maybe the boy will be luckier, prolly not tho D:
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bigredhoss Cook Islands. Jul 27 2011 01:22. Posts 8648 | | | |
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maybe i dont have a sense of humour but its pretty sad  |
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whamm! Albania. Jul 27 2011 01:37. Posts 11625 | | |
3 kids for 10kusd ? hmm i wonder ... lol |
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palak United States. Jul 27 2011 01:43. Posts 4601 | | |
| | On July 27 2011 00:37 lostaccount wrote:
maybe i dont have a sense of humour but its pretty sad |
it's a mixture of sad and funny.
imo the story of selling kids is funny. this story below is sad.
| | The South Korean parents of a three-month old allegedly fed their gaming habits obsessively while neglecting their daughter, who effectively starved to death.
The 41-yeard old husband and his 25-year old wife, identified only as “the Kims,” spent up to 12 hours every night at Internet cafés playing games, according to a story on ABC. The couple came home one morning last September, after spending the whole night out, and alerted authorities upon finding their daughter deceased.
An autopsy revealed that the baby’s death came about from malnourishment. The Kims subsequently confessed that they had been feeding their daughter “rotten, powdered milk and had often spanked their crying baby.”
In a sinister bit of irony, officials reported that instead of taking care of their real child, who was born prematurely, the couple was infatuated with raising a virtual daughter in the massively multiplayer online game PRIUS.
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http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/03/0...arents-neglect-real-child-virtual-one
| | New Mexico mom Rebecca Christie has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for starving her 3-year-old daughter Brandi Wulf to death in 2006, while playing World of Warcraft. The Holloman Air Force Base woman is not alone in neglecting her children to play video games.
Christie's ex-husband Derek Wulf pleaded guilty to child neglect and will be sentenced on June 15. The USAF sergeant said he would often come home to find Brandi wandering hungry and his wife playing computer games online. There was an overflowing cat box and the house smelled of cat urine.
Little Brandi would sometimes eat cat food because there was no food. The child only put on 1 pound in the last year of her life. Christie called paramedics on Jan. 26 when Brandi slipped into a coma. The child died weighing 23 pounds. Christie had an older child who had been removed from the home earlier due to neglect. Police reports showed 15 hours of uninterrupted video game play and chatting with other users.
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http://news.yahoo.com/mexico-mom-not-...ng-children-play-video-190700159.html
At least the parents that are selling their kids acknowledge they won't raise them well and are selling them to people who want the children rather then just letting their child die.  |
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RiKD  United States. Jul 27 2011 02:20. Posts 8904 | | |
rofl. the only thing i find sad is that it's basically funding a heroin addiction except even more pathetic b/c there are no real withdrawal symptoms. |
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qwerty67890 New Zealand. Jul 27 2011 08:07. Posts 14026 | | |
they sold the first one to a vendor before they realised they could get more for them in the auction house. |
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anheway . Jul 27 2011 11:23. Posts 338 | | | |
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K40Cheddar United States. Jul 27 2011 13:05. Posts 2202 | | | |
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| | On July 27 2011 00:22 bigredhoss wrote:
wow LOL |
More like WoW, lol |
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bigredhoss Cook Islands. Jul 27 2011 19:12. Posts 8648 | | | |
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