A young Chinese couple from the Chongqing Municipality have reportedly sold their newborn baby for 2,500 yuan (6) and then used the money to buy a new mobile phone.

The shocking story from the Chongqing Economic times reported that the baby's 19 year old mother, Zhang Yao, met her 21 year old boyfriend, Xin, through the internet. Their relationship flourished and Zhang gave birth to a bouncing baby girl in November.

The young couple feared that they wouldn't be able to raise the child due to lack of financial support and so they decided to sell the little girl to a man who gave his name as Li Yong.

A police investigation revealed that the child's parents, Zhang and Xin, spent most of their time on the internet and neither were employed. Their parents were not inclined to give them any support and so they had decided to sell their baby.

The parents are now reported to have expressed regret that they sold their newborn baby girl and the child's mother, Zhang, has said that after she was parted from her little girl she kept crying and she would now like to raise a child. The child's father, Xin, has asked police if could retrieve the child from the welfare center where she is currently being looked after.

Welfare center staff have said that the baby is well behaved, has a healthy appetite and is not frightened by strangers.

Police have said that they are looking forward to reuniting the family and say that the baby should be returned to her parents very soon.

Although the selling of children for money is recognized as smuggling, a criminal offence, police are still investigating whether anyone should be held criminally responsible.

This latest shocking story from China is the latest case in which a very young couple have fallen into parenthood without any planning or thought for how they would support their newborn child.

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