Selling Son Online for Drug | Selling a New Born Baby in China

A drug-addict couple has been charged in China after selling their newborn son online to strangers for nearly £7,000 to buy crystal meth. 

The parents rushed to trade off their baby last October after striking a deal with another couple who had trouble conceiving through an online chatting platform.

The pair had been on the police's radar due to their history of drug abuse and were caught the next day in a hotel room with meth bottles and stacks of cash.

The parents from south-western Chinese city Neijiang were sentenced last month for child trafficking, reported Chinese news outlet Sina.

Their son has been rescued by police and is now looked after by the grandparents.

According to the report, the couple, Mr Wang and Ms Zhong, was a long-time drug addict and buried in debts.

Ms Zhong was pregnant at the beginning of last year and even used meth multiple times during her pregnancy.

The pair then decided to sell their unborn son to pay off their overdue debts.

In February last year, Ms Zhong got to know a woman called Ms Lan in a group on QQ, a popular chatting platform.

Ms Lan and her husband, Mr Chen, had struggled to conceive for years and were desperate for a baby.

Ms Zhong had been imprisoned for various crimes before, including providing venues for drug users, robbery and child trafficking. But in 2018, she gave birth to her second child and her sentences were executed outside the jail. She got 'let go' by her prison's manager in June, 2018.

Upon knowing Ms Lan last February, she told the woman that she couldn't afford to raise a child and was looking for a family to 'look after' her unborn child.

They agreed that Ms Lan would pay 60,000 yuan (£6,800) 'nutrition fees' to the drug-addict couple, who would then hand over the baby as soon as he was born.

On October 11, Ms Zhong gave birth to a healthy boy. Within hours, Mr Wang left the hospital with his baby in a hurry.

But the parents did not realize that they had been under police surveillance due to their history of drug abuse.

Suspected of the father's strange act, the officers immediately started tracing Mr Wang's whereabouts and spotted him completing the deal with Ms Lan and Mr Chen.

On the next day, the authority tracked down Ms Lan and Mr Chen, who confessed their agreement with the sellers. The newborn boy was found at Ms Lan and Mr Chen's home.

Police officers later caught Mr Wang and Ms Zhong in a hotel room.

Footage shows the officers arresting Mr Wang and Ms Zhong while stacks of cash and used meth bottles were scattered around the bed.

The couple admitted that they had bought a batch of crystal meth and two brand-new mobile phones with the profit from selling their son.

They said that they had just finished the drugs before the police arrived.

The drug-addict parents were found guilty of child trafficking on May 29 by the Shizhong District People's Court of Neijiang.

Mr Wang was jailed for five years. His wife Ms Zhong was handed a six-year prison sentence.

The court said Ms Zhong would be imprisoned for a combined 13 years due to 'unfinished prison terms from previous crimes'.

Wuhan's Heaviest Man

Zhou, 26, gained 225 pounds during COVID-19 quarantine, becoming Wuhan's heaviest man

A 26-year-old Chinese man was recently labeled Wuhan’s fattest person after gaining a whopping 100 kilograms during the city’s five-month lockdown.

The man, referred to only as Zhou, to protect his privacy, wasn’t exactly fir before the coronavirus started wreaking havoc in Wuhan, prompting the authorities to impose a strict lockdown. But at least he kept his weight in check, worked at a local cafe and lead a relatively normal lifestyle. But that all changed when Zhou started spending most of his time indoor. Unable to burn off any calories, he started gaining weight, and in a few months’ time he had ballooned to 616 pounds (280 kilograms), over 200 pounds more than he weighed before the Covid-19 epidemic. 

The images of Zhou, released by the Wuhan University Central South Hospital on Chinese social media platform Weibo, showed that medical workers were examining the Wuhan man after he was admitted on June 1. 

The Wuhan's heaviest man, Zhou had been working at an internet café before the coronavirus outbreak. He stopped getting out of his residence when the city went into lockdown in January after the COVID-19 cases started increasing rapidly in the Chinese city. He did not step out of his shed for almost five months and gained 224 pounds of extra bodyweight. 

Zhou's story was revealed by a senior doctor at the hospital in a social media post. He wrote that the man had sought treatment in major hospitals in Jiangcheng but in vain. On May 31, Dr Li Zhen, the deputy director of the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Center of the Central South Hospital of Wuhan University, received a phone call from Zhou, who desperately sought his help. "Doctor, I haven't closed my eyes for 48 hours. It's so uncomfortable. Can you help me?" 

The next day, an ambulance was rushed to his place and Zhou was taken to the hospital's ICU. He was weighing 278 kg at the time of admission and doctors found that he had many life-threatening symptoms such as heart failure and respiratory dysfunction. 

In its Weibo post, the hospital mentioned that the doctors at Hospital Sleep Medicine Center hope to conduct sleep monitoring for Zhou but he was too obese for any test. "The length of the chest and abdomen belt cannot be satisfied, and there is more fat in the brain, which affects the collection of EEG signals," the post said. 

Since obesity is prone to sweat, it would affect the interpretation of EEG results and his thick arm has made it impossible to detect conventional physical health indicators such as blood pressure levels. It took more than a week for them to give symptomatic treatment to control Zhou's condition and on June 11, doctors declared him out of danger. Now Zhou has been transferred to the general ward of the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Center. 

Dr. Zhen explained that Zhou was overweight when he was admitted to the hospital and he occupied the entire hospital bed surface without even turning over. He said Zhou's obesity was caused by genetic factors and endocrine abnormalities. 

The social media post noted that an effective treatment method could be to induce weight loss by removing a part of the stomach through gastric-band or stomach reduction surgery. Otherwise, the excessive weight would soon overload the heart and lungs, posing a bigger to Zhou's life, it said. 

However, Dr. Zhen is very cautious as the risk of surgery is equally high. "I can only hope that by adjusting diet and rest and other methods, it (body weight) can reduce more than 50 pounds in three months so that the risk of surgery will be greatly reduced," he said. 

Until then, Zhou will continue in the general ward of the hospital. Doctors are hopeful that he would adjust to his new physical condition and cooperate to reduce his bodyweight as much as possible before a feasible stomach reduction surgery is performd on him.

Top 10 Strange and Ugliest Men

10 - Carrot Top = steroids + cosmetic surgery + red hair.
9 - Your stereotypical geek/nerd/dweeb from high school.
8 - Amazing talent from China huh? His caucasian cousin is below.
7 - This guy is just really ugly enough said.
6 - Sam Cassell AKA Mr. UFO.
5 - Verne Troyer AKA Mini-Me.
4 - This guy needs to visit the dentist soon!
3 - Beetlejuice from the Howard Stern Radio Show.
2 - Yu Zhenhuan AKA “King Kong” from China. He is single ladies!
1 - Michael Jackson do I need to say more?
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