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Chinese Teenager Sells Kidney For iPhone


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A Chinese teenager has sold his kidney to buy an iPad and iPhone.

:: Commentary on this video is in Mandarin

Xiao Zheng, from the country's south-eastern Anhui province, is believed to have met a broker on the internet who said he could help him sell his kidney for £1,825 (Yuan 20,000).

He is said to have left a message for the middleman saying: "I want to buy an iPad 2."

Zheng then travelled to Chenzhou in central Hunan province, where he had his right kidney removed in a hospital.

His mother told reporters she was devastated by the news.

She said: "When my son came home he had a laptop computer and an Apple phone.

"Where did all that money come from? Only when he could bear it no longer did he tell us.

"He said, Mum, I sold my kidney.

"When I heard it I felt like the sky was crashing down on our family."

The boy's mother alerted police after she found out but they were unable to locate the broker as his phone was switched off.

The hospital was not authorised to perform organ transplants, and claimed they had no idea about the surgery because the department had been contracted to a businessman from a neighbouring province, reports said.


WTF?! That is actually unbelievable!

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I don't think he'll ever turn it back on. It was probably just a cheap one that he threw away afterwards.

Disposabl phones are really easy o come by so that makes sense. That kid wasted his kidney. What's he going to do when the iPad 3 comes out? Apple products have a relevancy life of one year at max.

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The bad thing about this is the kid took a huge risk. They could have killed him when they knocked him out to take his kidney. Hes lucky these people didn't take his life and use his body for all of it's parts. It was a crazy stupid thing to do. It may end up killing him in the future since now hes missing a kidney. But he will probably die from something else.

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