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Monday, Nov 19, 2012
CHINA - First, she had a heated argument with her live-in lover.
Then she ran away with her son, Xiao Feng, from their home in Minhou, a county in China's Fujian province. She took a bus to the provincial capital Fuzhou nearby and stayed at a hotel for three days.
When the woman, known only as MsChen, ran out of her 600 yuan (S$118), she decided to visit another lover in Zhejiang province, the Fuzhou Daily reported.
At the bus station, Ms Chen, in her 20s, found out she could not afford the ticket to her boyfriend's home, about 800km away.
In a desperate attempt to get the 250yuan she needed, she decided to sell her 18-month-old son for 5,000 yuan.
She sought help from a luggage handler at the bus station who introduced her to a couple - Mr Zhang and his wife, Ms Li - who work for a bus company.
With help from the trio, Ms Chen sold the boy to a family last month.
With the money, she bought new clothes, a smartphone and a bus ticket to meet her lover. She has been living with him since.
The report did not say how the pair got to know each other.
Ms Chen met Xiao Feng's father, identified only as Mr Xu, four years ago. The pair have been living together, but did not get married even after the birth of the boy last May.
Mr Xu lodged a police report after MsChen said she had sold their son.
The police arrested Ms Chen as well as the middlemen. Ms Li confessed that the boy was sold to her handicapped brother, who is a bachelor, but wanted to adopt a child.
Xiao Feng was reunited with his father early this month.
Abandoned
Meanwhile in another incident in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, a baby girl was abandoned on the streets after family members of her estranged parents refused to take care of her.
Witnesses said two groups of people - three men and two women - were arguing about who should look after the baby, who was several months old.
The group could not come to an agreement and went their separate ways, and the child was left in a pram by the roadside.
Residents helped to feed the girl and placed her at a corridor as it was raining until the police were called to take her away, reported the Information Times. The girl's uncle took her home later, said the report.