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Chinese Couple Sells Children To Support Online Game Addiction

Posted by samzenpus on from the think-of-the-children-no-really-think-of-the-children dept.

hypnosec writes After several controversies arising about in-app purchases, a Chinese couple has done the unthinkable by selling their sons to buy in-app items. An unmarried couple, A Hui and A Mei, severely addicted to online games, were accused of selling their sons and were arrested. In an interview with Guangdong TV, they revealed that they chose to sell their sons to child traffickers. A Hui said A Mei is fond of playing online games and likes to buy game items. As he could not give up his in-app purchases, he was not able to support his first son and they sold him to Fujian-based child traffickers. When the wife bore another son, they felt they would not be able to support their second child either, and they again sold him to the traffickers.

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  1. title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    spelling plz, we aren't all Onlione yet

  2. Silly season much by Crashmarik · · Score: 3, Insightful

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

    From 2011

    You might think this is getting to be epidemic in China or somebody over there takes advantage of gullible westerners ?

    1. Re:Silly season much by baka_toroi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      This in in the first line. This is the second line. And this is the third line, with an empty line in between.

      Except it's not, because Slashdot is a piece of shit and requires you to use the break html tag, which not everyone knows about. Maybe it's been fixed in Slashdot beta, I don't know.

  3. Re:Oblig. Monty Python by asmkm22 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it's kind of messed up that an article about selling children results in the majority of comments either criticizing the editing of the summary, or making a joke of the situation. What a fucked up community.

  4. Re:Oblig. Monty Python by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Won't somebody think of the children!!" Cry me a river, then piss off. We all have plenty of much more serious stuff to fret over than a couple of losers that made a bad decision. The sheer stupidity and rarity of the action makes it ludicrous enough to be surreal - it makes a joke of itself.

    Lighten up, Francis.

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