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The Sanxiang City Newspaper said the parents, both aged under 21, sold their three children to cover the costs of playing online games at an Internet café.
ABC News reports that Li Lin and Li Juan met in an Internet café in 2007 and had their first child, a boy, a year later. Days after the birth the couple left the child at home to visit an Internet café over 30 kilometres away.
Two years later the couple had a baby girl, and decided to sell the child for less than $500 in order to fund their gaming habit. After spending the money, Li Lin and Li Juan sold their firstborn, a boy, for ten times as much: $4,600.
Once the couple had a third child, another boy, they sold him for the same amount.
Li Lin’s mother turned the two in to authorities when she discovered what her son and partner had been doing. The two claim they didn’t know they were breaking the law, stating, “We don’t want to raise them, we just want to sell them for some money.”
It is not clear as to what game or games the couple were playing.
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