Police detain couple for selling their newborn son
By Li Qian |
November 3, 2012, Saturday
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A COUPLE has been detained in Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province, for selling their 10-day-old son in order to keep their elder son's one-child certificate and ease their financial burden.
The husband surnamed Jiang, 31, and his wife surnamed Zhang, 23, are from an impoverished area in Guizhou Province. They had their first child in 2009, according to the news portal www.zjol.com.
Early this year, Zhang became pregnant and the couple learned if they had a second child they would be punished for violating the family planning law and their elder son would lose his one-child birth certificate, which provides a monthly allowance.
In Guizhou, the one-child certificate also entitles each family that complies with the policy to a 6,000 yuan (US$961) reward.
Each family also receives at least a 1,500 yuan per year subsidy for three years when the child attends high school, according to the report.
Instead of having an abortion, the couple decided to sell their second child for some money. On October 22, their second son was born. Jiang then sold the newborn for 40,000 yuan (US$6,400), the website said. They were detained this week after police got a tip-off, but the buyer and the baby have not been located. Jiang said the buyer was a Yueqing native, but he didn't reveal his identity.
"I really regret it," the boy's mother was quoted as saying. "If I was rich enough to raise him, I wouldn't have sold him."
She said the family lived on her husband's salary of 2,700 yuan per month, according to the report.
In China, child traffickers face five to 10 years in jail. If they abduct and sell more than three children or harm children, they face life in prison.
Individuals who seriously violate the rules can be sentenced to death.
The husband surnamed Jiang, 31, and his wife surnamed Zhang, 23, are from an impoverished area in Guizhou Province. They had their first child in 2009, according to the news portal www.zjol.com.
Early this year, Zhang became pregnant and the couple learned if they had a second child they would be punished for violating the family planning law and their elder son would lose his one-child birth certificate, which provides a monthly allowance.
In Guizhou, the one-child certificate also entitles each family that complies with the policy to a 6,000 yuan (US$961) reward.
Each family also receives at least a 1,500 yuan per year subsidy for three years when the child attends high school, according to the report.
Instead of having an abortion, the couple decided to sell their second child for some money. On October 22, their second son was born. Jiang then sold the newborn for 40,000 yuan (US$6,400), the website said. They were detained this week after police got a tip-off, but the buyer and the baby have not been located. Jiang said the buyer was a Yueqing native, but he didn't reveal his identity.
"I really regret it," the boy's mother was quoted as saying. "If I was rich enough to raise him, I wouldn't have sold him."
She said the family lived on her husband's salary of 2,700 yuan per month, according to the report.
In China, child traffickers face five to 10 years in jail. If they abduct and sell more than three children or harm children, they face life in prison.
Individuals who seriously violate the rules can be sentenced to death.
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