Couple in India sell 8-month-old child to buy an iPhone 14 and make Instagram Reels

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Incident echoes a case in China in 2016, when a couple sold their 18-day-old baby for $4,700. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A couple in West Bengal, India, have been charged after they were accused of selling their eight-month-old son so they could buy an iPhone 14 and make Instagram Reels.

According to the newspaper’s account, neighbours became suspicious after they noticed that the couple’s eight-month-old son appeared to be missing, and the two had seemed nonchalant about it when asked. They said they had left the baby with a relative.

The TOI said police later managed to rescue the baby boy from a woman in Khardaha, also in West Bengal. The case echoes a similar incident in 2016, when a teenage couple in Fujian province, China, sold their 18-day-old baby for US$3,533 , so they could buy an iPhone and a motorbike.Xiamen Daily quoted the mother as saying then: “I was adopted, and in my hometown, many people gave their kids for others to raise. I genuinely didn’t know this was illegal.”

 

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