A young couple in the south-western Chinese city of Neijiang has been sentenced after selling their son to another couple for nearly $7,000 and using the proceeds to buy Crystal Meth.
The drug-addict couple, Mr Wang and Ms Zhong were said to be buried in debts due to their long history of drug use.
In the October 2019 incident, the couple got in touch with a couple having difficulties conceiving via an online chatting app and offered to sell their young son.
After receiving the money, the couple lodged in a hotel where police caught them the next day with bottles of meth and a stack of cash.
They had reportedly been on police’s radar due to their drug problem.
According to Daily Mail, quoting Chinese local media:
Ms Zhong was pregnant at the beginning of last year and even used meth multiple times during her pregnancy.
The pair then decided to sell their unborn son to pay off their overdue debts.
In February last year, Ms Zhong got to know a woman called Ms Lan in a group on QQ, a popular chatting platform.
Ms Lan and her husband, Mr Chen, had struggled to conceive for years and were desperate for a baby.
Upon knowing Ms Lan last February, she told the woman that she couldn’t afford to raise a child and was looking for a family to ‘look after’ her unborn child.
They agreed that Ms Lan would pay 60,000 yuan (£6,800) ‘nutrition fees’ to the drug-addict couple, who would then hand over the baby as soon as he was born.
On October 11, Ms Zhong gave birth to a healthy boy. Within hours, Mr Wang left the hospital with his baby in a hurry.
But the parents did not realise that they had been under police surveillance due to their history of drug abuse.
Suspected of the father’s strange act, the officers immediately started tracing Mr Wang’s whereabouts and spotted him completing the deal with Ms Lan and Mr Chen.
On the next day, the authority tracked down Ms Lan and Mr Chen, who confessed their agreement with the sellers. The newborn boy was found at Ms Lan and Mr Chen’s home.
Police officers later caught Mr Wang and Ms Zhong in a hotel room.
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The baby was rescued and handed over to the couple’s grandparents.
However, the couple was sentenced by a Chinese court for child trafficking in May over the incident.
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