Parents Who Sold Baby Daughter to Buy iPhone Had “No Idea It Is Illegal”

A couple in China decided to sell their 18-day-old daughter and use the money to buy a new iPhone and motorbike before they were tracked down by the police and arrested.

Local media reports the father was 19 and the mother's age cannot be disclosed because she was underage when the child was born. The pair started looking to sell their daughter online on Chinese messaging app QQ.

They found a buyer who said he wanted to buy the baby for his sister. The father and the online buyer met and completed the transaction, with the young couple planning to purchase several items, including an iPhone and a motorcycle.

In court, the judge sentenced the father to 3 years in jail and the mother two-and-a-half years suspended prison sentence because she hasn’t completed her studies.

Furthermore, the police claim that the father sold the baby without the mother’s consent. And yet, she wasn’t really affected that she lost her baby girl.

“I myself was adopted, and many people in my hometown send their kids to other people to raise them. I really didn’t know that it was illegal,” she was quoted as saying.

After hearing the parents had been arrested, the online buyer handed himself in to police.

What’s more shocking, however, is that the judge decided to let the buyer’s sister raise the child because of the difficult conditions the young parents are dealing with.

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