Babies for Sale on Auction Site
Imagine browsing through E-Bay for some purchase and you suddenly come across a page, where a person is selling babies!!! Would you believe it?
Its true, it really happened in China!!!
A webpage registered under a user known as “Forever Innovative” claimed that it could sell babies less than 100 days old from the province of Henan. The auction started at 1 Yuan, but the site claimed that you can immediately buy a boy if you were willing to pay 28,000 Yuan (US$ 3,457) or a girl if you were willing to pay 13,000 Yuan (US$ 1,605). An e-mail address was also provided.
In China, where it’s a strict rule that a family cannot have more than one child (This rule is strictly followed in the cities, but not so in the interiors), this coupled with the fact that many couples cannot have children has led to lot of illegal trafficking. China deals strictly with illegal human trafficking, perpetrators are executed.
In this case, the user had registered with this particular name for the first time and had not yet done any transaction, making the tracking of the person difficult. Usually the Chinese authorities have strict measures to curb illegal trafficking, but the word “baby” had not been censored, hence this site was not screened initially.
The site was browsed by 50 odd people, before it was brought to the notice of the authorities. E-bay immediately took the site off the Internet.
Source: The Shanghai Daily & Yahoo! News
posted by Arun R @ 1:41 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
hey Arun .. nice post
thanx for visiting my world...
uttara
oopps i forgot to say .. keep visiting
:))
uttara
Sad state of affairs. Wish the State would stop poking into people's lives and use better judgement in family planning.
@ Uttara:
Thanks. Shall keep visiting.
@ Silverine:
There is no other way to curb the population. We also need to bring stringent measures in our country. I am not talking abt punishments, but there should be some measures to check our population burst.
"perpetrators being executed"...
guess our country too needs to start taking strict steps to counter the population growth and other menaces
@ Parth:
Unfortunately, its not possible in India, since its a democracy. What possibly can happen is to give a set of privileges for families which have two or less children.
But that would eat up the vote banks of the politicians, so its never going to happen, and our population will continue to explode.
I hope our generation and the next produce children in the same speed, else there will b a lot of old people and no young ones.
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