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Selling baby girl for 10,000 yuan and ethics of the bottom

November 8th, 2009 by Key | Posted in Opinion | 16 Comments »

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[QQ] The day after the baby girl was born she was already sold to a human trafficker by her grandfather for 10,000 yuan. Facing the police who solved the case, this 66-year-old grandfather said “If he was a baby boy, I would not have given him up for anything.”

Reading this news, I was not surprised. Strictly speaking, this was not news but a reality of life. Every time returning back to home town, I would hear stories like this. On a street in our neighboring village, because there were so many famers buying baby girls, many female head of household carried out their babies in the street in a children beauty contest to see which family had the most beautiful baby girl.

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