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

www.chinahush.com — 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.”

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