An iPhone poster on display at a phone
shop in Beijing, China. Photo: AP
China
April
9, 2012
BEIJING. Five people have been arrested
for alleged involvement in a 17-year-old's decision to sell his kidney so he
could buy an iPad and an iPhone.
The Xinhua news agency reported that
prosecutors in Chenzhou charged the suspects, including a surgeon, with
intentional injury.
Xinhua said that the man who allegedly organized
the plot needed to pay off gambling debts. He supposedly received about
$US35,000 ($A34,000) to get the kidney, out of which he paid about $3000 to the
student.
The defendant also allegedly paid the
medical staff for the operation, and for the rental of a medical facility.
The student's mother uncovered the plot
after asking how he could afford an iPad and iPhone. He confessed that he had
sold one of his kidneys.
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