OMG! COUPLE IN CHINA SELLS 3 KIDS TO FUND THEIR ONLINE GAMING ADDICTION!

A couple in China sold their three children for money to feed their video game obsession – and had no idea it was illegal, police said.

Li Lin and Li Juan met in an Internet café and when they first needed money to continue their obsession, sold their firstborn – a baby boy – for about $4600, according to a Chinese newspaper report translated by KTLA.com

But that wasn’t enough.

They sold their daughter for $500 and then had a third child, who fetched another $4600. Boys are considered more valuable than girls in many Chinese households.

According to the report, they were busted when Li Lin's mother realized where her grandchildren were going – and called cops.

The contenders for worst parents of the year said they had no intention of raising their children when Li Lin got pregnant – but knew that they were a good source of income to feed their addiction.

It is unclear where the children ended up, but a 2008 report found that thousands of young people are sold to work in China’s booming factories as near-slave labor.

The couple lived in Dongguan, an industrial city in the central Guangdong province of China.

Online gaming addiction has been considered a widespread problem in China, where as many as 13% of Chinese college students were considered addicts in 2009. Centers all over the country have opened to treat video-game addiction and authorities developed an anti-gaming addition system in 2007 to help curb the problem.

Even with the measures, horror stories of gaming addictions have continued to trickle out of the country – perhaps most notably a man who died in 2007 after playing video games for three days straight.


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