Posted on 04/06/2012 5:05:45 PM PDT by traumer
Five people have been charged with intentional injury to a Chinese teenager who was so desperate to buy an iPad and iPhone that he sold his kidney for just over £2,000.
The accused, from southern China, include a surgeon who removed a kidney from a 17-year-old boy in return for around 220,000 yuan - just over £20,000.
Prosecutors in Chenzhou city, Hunan province, said one of the defendants received the money to arrange the transplant. He paid the teenager, identified only as Wang, 22,000 yuan - just over £2,000 - and split the rest with the surgeon, the three other defendants and other medical staff.
The teenager, identified only by his surname Wang, comes from Anhui, one of China's poorest provinces, where inhabitants frequently leave to find work and a better life elsewhere.
He now suffers from renal deficiency, according to the government-run Xinhua News Agency. Following the surgery in April last year, Wang bought an iPhone and iPad. When his mother quizzed him on how he funded the sought-after goods, he admitted selling a kidney.
It is not known who received and paid for the kidney. The organ industry in China is booming and trading organs is a widespread online practice in the country.
Black market trade: A surgeon removed the kidney with medical staff for more than £20,000 Official statistics show that more than a million people in China need a transplant every year, but less than ten per cent receive them, driving a lucrative black market trade.
Few Chinese agree to donate their organs after death, fuelling the rampant trade in illegal market activity.
Apple products are hugely popular in China, but are priced beyond the reach of many Chinese. IPhones start at 3,988 yuan (£400), and iPads begin at 2,988 yuan - just under £190.
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Hey.... there is an APP for that !!
this should silence the libertarians for a while but of course it won’t.
Why would he need 2000 pounds?
Can’t he get one for the wholesale cost of 5 bucks?
HAVE TO HAVE IT !!
Well, at least he’s persistent and had an objective.
He’s going to be REAL pissed when the newer models come out..
Come to America where diversity is our strength. Get a democrate registration card and the rest is free man, how hard is this?
Bet he coulda got more on Ebay.
Plus he has to sell more of his body to buy the new apps LOL
Will he sell the other kidney when the next version comes out?
That doesn’t make any sense. What happened in this case is already illegal. What more do you want?
Once he turns 18, he should be able to do what he wants.
When I was 17, I was more interested in girls, but I hear they’re in short supply in China.
Why didn’t he just get a cheaper Chinese copycat version?
Sure was not worth it!
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