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A young Chinese couple are facing many years in jail after allegedly selling their baby daughter to raise money for an iPhone and other luxury goods.

The couple, identified only as Miss Zhang and Mr Teng, are said to have placed anonymous advertisements in newspapers suggesting they would be willing to part with their baby - unborn at that stage - in exchange for 50,000 yuan (about £5,000).

Police in Shanghai have charged the couple with human trafficking after accepting money for the baby, who was born at home and still only weeks, or months old, when sold.

Having received the money, which was deposited in their bank account, the couple went out on a spending spree, using part of the proceeds to buy an iPhone, State media reported today.

The unemployed couple, who have two other children, were also accused of using the money to purchase a number of luxury goods.

They are understood to have told prosecutors that they were acting in their daughter's best interests, claiming they had hoped to find a home for her with a financially stable family who would be able to provide her with an eduction.

'We did not give the baby away for money but in order to give it more security,' Shanghai's Jiefang Daily newspaper reported them as telling officials.

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Splashing out: Having received the money, which was deposited in their bank account, the couple went out on a spending spree in Shanghai (pictured)

But prosecutors said they believed the couple's bank records show they had hatched a 'sinister conspiracy' to profit from the sale of the baby.

One credit card bill is said to show that immediately after trading the child, the couple spent large amounts of money on the internet, including buying an iPhone and a pair of expensive trainers.

In an attempt to hide that they were behind the sale of a child, the couple tried to conceal the fact that Miss Zhang was pregnant and she had even gone to the length of giving birth at home.

They are said to have told neighbours that the baby bump during Miss Zhang's pregnancy was a tumour.

IPhones are a sought-after commodity in China and only last year seven people were jailed in Hunan province for their role in the purchase of a kidney from a teenage boy, who used the money to buy an iPhone and an iPad.



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Some phones they or their neighbours produce perform better than an iPhone!!!

On a side note, couldn't they have said that the mother was a surrogate? The fee would be compensation for services rendered?

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Totally agree.

I feel ashamed for this couple. They don't deserve to be called "human". Even animals don't give up their offsprings for profit. They are lower than an animal. Pathetic.

I hope they let the baby stay with whom ever bought it. It will be better off than being returned to the natural parents.

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I actually physically Laughed in disbelief...

But Who are we to know the real story? The Media always puts a negative spin on things to make a story more interesting.

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Sadly, there are people who are willing to do that for A LOT less than that. I know this for a fact because my neighbour is the "buyer".

I hope they let the baby stay with whom ever bought it. It will be better off than being returned to the natural parents.

True. At least in my neighbour's case. The mother doesn't even seem to care about the baby. She instead has been trying to get more money from my neighbour <_<

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Greatest thing for apple to feel proud of. People are defining limit to get 'em.

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Greatest thing for apple to feel proud of. People are defining limit to get 'em.

Much as I think iPhone (or any other Apple product for that matter) is overrated and overpriced, I don't think this one is their fault. It's just the individual's inability to stand against the pressure of consumerism.

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The reproductive system of such people should be made disabled after such offense. The love for a iphone is greater than mother's love - man, they've proved the wrong equation right!

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The thing is, in China, things like the latest iPhone is a status symbol. People in china love to carry an iphone around in their hands when they can easily tuck it away in their pockets or bags, they want to be seen. This crazy couple claim it was in their unborn child's interest? More like in their own interest to show off! The worst kind of people around are those who are not rich at all yet try to acquire expensive goods to show off.

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The thing is, in China, things like the latest iPhone is a status symbol. People in china love to carry an iphone around in their hands when they can easily tuck it away in their pockets or bags, they want to be seen.

Not only in China but everywhere.

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Can't agree more. Ashamed to hear someone traded their baby for an iphone.

I hope they let the baby stay with whom ever bought it. It will be better off than being returned to the natural parents.

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this is china... the real parents will be shot... north korea recently shot 80 people for getting caught watching foreign movies...really this is true ...an some here think OUR rights are being violated

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