Have you ever wanted to play online games in internet cafes so bad that you follow through with selling your three children just to do so?
What’s that? It sounds like you’re saying, “No, that’s stupid.”
Well, you’d be right in thinking that, also, it’s pretty horrible.
According to Sanxiang City News, the couple met in an Internet cafe back in 2007 and bonded over their obsession with online video games. A year later, the parents — who are both under 21 — welcomed their first child, a son. Days after his birth, they left him home alone while they went to play online games at an Internet cafe 30 km away.
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.
This is disgusting, and we can’t believe there are people out there who would do this to their children. The parents were later turned in by their own parents after they found out what they had done.
So what’s their official excuse?
“We don├óΓé¼Γäót want to raise them, we just want to sell them for some money.├óΓé¼┬¥
Wow.
We don’t even know what to say. Enjoy jail, we guess.
[Image via AP Images.]