{"id":43324,"date":"2013-10-19T00:28:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=43324"},"modified":"2013-10-19T00:30:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:30:47","slug":"chinese-couple-face-jail-after-selling-their-baby-daughter-for-5000-to-buy-an-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=43324","title":{"rendered":"Chinese couple face jail after selling their baby daughter for \u00a35,000 to buy an iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shanghai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43322\" alt=\"iPhone,\u0579\u056b\u0576\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shanghai.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shanghai.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shanghai-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shanghai-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; unborn at that stage &#8211; in exchange for 50,000 yuan (about \u00a35,000).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployed couple, who have two other children, were also accused of using the money to purchase a number of luxury goods.<\/p>\n<p>They are understood to have told prosecutors that they were acting in their daughter&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>But prosecutors said they believed the couple&#8217;s bank records show they had hatched a &#8216;sinister conspiracy&#8217; to profit from the sale of the baby.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>They are said to have told neighbours that the baby bump during Miss Zhang&#8217;s pregnancy was a tumour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A young Chinese couple are facing many years in jail after allegedly selling their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}