In a story that has left me with my jaw literally hanging open, two parents have been apprehended by Chinese authorities after it transpired they sold their three children to fund their MMO habit.
Li Lin and Li Juan sold their baby daughter for roughly $500, their first son for around $4600, and their second son for the same price. Li Lin's mother contacted officials after she had found out what happened, and the couple was taken into custody.
According to reports, the couple didn't know that selling babies so they could play computer games was illegal. In a country where political prisoners are forced into MMO gold-farming labor, it's hard to distinguish the lines, I guess.
"We don’t want to raise them, we just want to sell them for some money," said the couple, when asked if they missed them. To be fair, you can't fault them for their honesty.
Chinese Couple Sells All Three Kids to Play Online Games [ABC]
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11:15 AM on 07.25.2011 | 
Give it a bit. Someone's going to blame cheating on their girlfriend on Catherine next, and then it's going to finish with killing themselves because Persona told them to do it.
*sigh*
<.<=>.>;
Lets all save the children!
Sure, she was found "not guilty"... and does anyone really believe that? Your kid is missing for a month and you don't bother mentioning it to anyone and you're busy out partying it up? Meh... selling the kids sounds like a better parental decision than the abuse (or worst) that other people with addictions/issues do.
@Elsa
Casey Anthony should be locked to rot.
There's a bit of everything in SMT, though. Going with the devil is just an option, after all.
@maxwell + midnight owl
You don't sell your children like a collectable comic or a car. Your children should be your entire world. What these 2 have done is fucking vile. Your flippant attitude is disgusting.
No wonder China is so overpopulated.
whoever bought the kids overpaid big time! girls are only worth $300 MAX and boys usually cost $3000!!!
RapeLay would like a word with you on how much a game sells effects how much it's used in media.
More likely, Atlus fans realize that none of the games can ever, EVER be shown to anyone associated with the alarmist press.
I hope there's an extra special room in hell reserved for people like this.
In all seriousness,they both deserve an ass kicking of incredible proportions and to lose access to their genitals.
Well more than the likely the girl would've been a sex slave and a prostitute so I don't think I would go as far as to she got a better deal than death. At least death is fucking peaceful. The Chinese sex slave market is absolutely atrocious.
In China, men are LITERALLY worth TEN TIMES what women do.
Holy Scheiss...
Also, I’m guessing the girl cost less because she’s a baby and therefore not able to be put to work.
But seriously, there are actually clinics for people like these.