Chinese couple sells three of their kids to fund online gaming habit

[simonjed]

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source: Chinese couple sells three of their kids to fund online gaming habit - Yahoo!

Gaming can get quite time and resource consuming, but two gamers have reached a new low in pursuit of virtual gratification. A southern Chinese newspaper is reporting that a young Chinese couple has been found guilty of selling their three children off to support a gaming habit.
It sounds like a ludicrous scenario but according to Sanxiang City News, the couple from Dongguan, China first met in 2007 in Internet cafe; both were under 21 years old. Bonding over a mutual online gaming obsession, the two eventually had their first child a year later. However, the couple couldn’t be weaned from online gaming and within a few days of their son’s birth they left him home alone so they could trek to an Internet cafe 18 miles away.
Li Lin and Li Juan didn’t begin selling children until 2009 with the birth of their second child, a baby girl. Graduating from simple neglect, the young couple sold the baby girl to fund their obsession and received a short-lived sum equivalent to $500. With the success of the baby girl they then proceeded to sell their firstborn son and received close to $4600 for him; almost ten times the amount as the girl.
The next child they had was another son who was sold for the same amount $4600. The two were finally turned into the authorities by Li Lin’s mother who discovered what was happening to her grandchildren. It was reported that the couple didn’t know that they were breaking a law.
The two gamers were asked if they missed their children and they responded, “we don’t want to raise them, we just want to sell them for some money.”
Chinese newspapers have had a tendency to embellish stories in the past, but China has had a history of online gaming problems. In 2007 a man’s three day gaming binge in Guangzhou actually led to his death. The Chinese government has attempted to control the problem by setting time limits on game play and even banning the creation of new internet cafes.

[quantumnasher]

grabe naman pud ka addict, though there was also a point in my life that i used the money for my tuition to fund my online game pero it was all business had the tuition returned 2x the original amount

[ranaticsrule]

Grabeha na ani oi....

[Lord_Ac]

There's something wrong with the couple..... Not online gaming.

[street_of_no_return]

mao nana resulta sa mga addict kaau mga OL games..

[rejiel]

naunsa naman ni oi... kund dili gani mamatay sa games, mamaligya sad ug anak...

[nicolia]

nasubraan nmn neh.. wla nai tarong pang huna2

[imliability]

Kuyawa gud ana nila!
Unsay pagtoo nila sa ilang mga ANAK? (GADGET)

[GOOGLE]

na adik man ko sauna ug OL games, pero akong bad nga nabuhat kay akong gi.unay ug kawat ang balgya sakong mama nga mga OL game cards. hahahaha

[crazy_monkey]

mabaligya dai ang mga bata ? luoy pud.