Chinese Couple Sells Kids To Fund Online Gaming

A Chinese couple who really like to game are under arrest for selling their kids and converting the money into game currency. From the article: "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." I wonder what the "kid seller" achievement looks like?

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[madhatter256]

I think in reality it's more children than they can legally have... at least having them all together.... China, last I checked, limited the number children parents can have to at least one or two children (twins) and encouraged more women than boys.

Addiction might have been the catalyst to sell them but with that law, anyone caught with more than two kids will go to jail or if they are pregnant with a third child, they can get detained and induce an abortion.