A mother sold her newborn twin babies for £7,400 to pay of her credit card bills and buy a mobile phone.
The mum, in her twenties, sold the boys to two different families who lived more than 430 miles away from their eastern China hometown.
They were born premature and needed to be kept in incubators after they were born last September, but at around two weeks old they were sold.
Their mum, known by her surname Ma, sold one boy for 45,000 yuan (£5,100) and the other for 20,000 yuan (£2,271), the Daily Mail reports. Read more