Chinese teenager sold his Kidney to buy iPhone

Website · by **Wolfsmagik** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:06 am

Five people charged after 17-year-old boy from one of China's poorest provinces sold organ to buy coveted Apple gizmos

Five people in southern China have been charged with intentional injury in the case of a Chinese teenager who sold a kidney so he could buy an iPhone and an iPad.

The five, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency, included a surgeon who removed a kidney from the 17-year-old boy in April last year. The boy, identified only by his surname Wang, now suffers from renal deficiency, Xinhua quoted prosecutors in Chenzhou city, Hunan province, as saying.

According to Xinhua, one of the defendants received about 220,000 yuan (about £22,000) to arrange the transplant. He paid Wang 22,000 yuan and split the rest with the surgeon, the three other defendants and other medical staff.

The report did not say who received and paid for the kidney.

The teenager was from Anhui, one of China's poorest provinces, where locals frequently migrate to find work and a better life elsewhere. He bought an iPhone and iPad, and when asked by his mother where he got the money, admitted selling a kidney.

Apple products are hugely popular in China but are priced beyond the reach of many Chinese: iPhones start at 3,988 yuan and iPads at 2,988 yuan.

Only a fraction of the people who need organ transplants in China are able to get them, leading to "transplant tourism" where patients travel overseas for such operations, and to a black market for human organs.

China banned the trading of human organs in 2007. Several other suspects involved in the case are still being investigated.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/06/chinese-teenager-sold-kidney-iphone

by **jpguy** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:27 am

The stupidest thing EVER... even prostitution would've been an easier way to get it...

by **pcdm3** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:11 am

I just can't with this story.... I would've even buy him the iPhone myself just to avoid reading this.

by **pollei** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:21 am

This is definitely disturbing

...

pcdm3 wrote:I just can't with this story.... I would've even buy him the iPhone myself just to avoid reading this.

Could you buy me an iPhone?

by **theArmy** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:22 am

pcdm3 wrote:I just can't with this story.... I would've even buy him the iPhone myself just to avoid reading this.

I wouldn't :oops:

by **theArmy** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:23 am

pollei wrote:
pcdm3 wrote:I just can't with this story.... I would've even buy him the iPhone myself just to avoid reading this.
Could you buy me an iPhone?

!! dead

by **neoepzilon** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:24 am

pollei wrote:
pcdm3 wrote:I just can't with this story.... I would've even buy him the iPhone myself just to avoid reading this.
Could you buy me an iPhone?

She talkin' out her neck.

Anyways this is sad, and it makes me despise Apple even more for marketing these products as being cooler and worth more than they are. This poor kid. I understand the feeling of wanting something so bad and not being able to have it, I could only imagine the effect of Apple's marketing on people that could only dream of affording their products.

by **jio** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:59 am

If someone is an idiot, it is not Apple's fault. If the medical system in a country leads to excess demand for kidneys or whatever organs, it is not Apple's fault.

by **ginnyfan** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:42 pm

^^ Exactly. You must be very disturbed to do such a crazy thing.

I would feel sorry for someone selling an organ to survive and buy food, medicine or whatever other necessity not this kind of trendy luxury.

by **Serby** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:11 pm

Truly stupid thing to think of, let alone doing it. :-?

by **nekoo3372** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:10 pm

all stuff from Apple is incredibly overpriced ...

this whole is not they fault, but partly yes ...

poor guy

by **Wayne** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:13 pm

jio wrote:If someone is an idiot, it is not Apple's fault. If the medical system in a country leads to excess demand for kidneys or whatever organs, it is not Apple's fault.

Quoted for truth.

by **alxx** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:16 pm

What a moron.

by **Mikerocha** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:32 pm

pcdm3 wrote:I just can't with this story.... I would've even buy him the iPhone myself just to avoid reading this.

I would've had too :-?

Your body and life are more important than materialism.

by **pcdm3** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:00 pm

neoepzilon wrote:
pollei wrote:
pcdm3 wrote:I just can't with this story.... I would've even buy him the iPhone myself just to avoid reading this.
Could you buy me an iPhone?
She talkin' out her neck.

Not really, i really would've.

by **HBIC** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:58 pm

Be funny if it was only the iPhone 3 he got.

by **TheRealest** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:02 pm

-___- really.

by **alxx** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:07 pm

jamesssxD wrote:Be funny if it was only the iPhone 3 he got.

Only you

by **randomness** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:53 pm

You gotta be kidneying me!

(Sorry! I tried my hardest to resist! Stupid brain always coming up with lame puns...)

by **grooveboy** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:23 pm

randomness wrote:You gotta be kidneying me!

by **Serby** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 6:32 pm

alxx wrote:
jamesssxD wrote:Be funny if it was only the iPhone 3 he got.
Only you

grooveboy wrote:
randomness wrote:You gotta be kidneying me!

by **NoAngels** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:10 pm

Wow I'm shocked

pcdm3 wrote: I would've even buy him the iPhone myself just to avoid reading this.

+1

by **summer** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:18 pm

My bestfriend's husband died a week after the honeymoon because the only kidney he had stopped functioning. They tried to get a transplantation but there were no donors, both officially and unofficially. It just makes me sick..

by **CrazyCrazy** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:21 pm

Only China. :lol:

Only kidding, silly child. :roll:

by **robert989** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:21 pm

pcdm3 wrote:I just can't with this story.... I would've even buy him the iPhone myself just to avoid reading this.

could you buy me kindle ???? plsss