Report: Teen sold kidney to buy iPad2
A woman checks her cellphone while walking past advertising for the iPad 2 in Beijing. (June 3, 2011) Credit: AFP/Getty Images
A Chinese teenager from Anhui province in central China reportedly sold one of his kidneys for about $3,000 after seeing an Internet ad offering cash to people prepared to become organ donors.
The boy, 17, sold one of his kidneys in April for 22,000 yuan ($3,400 U.S.) so he could buy Apple Inc.’s iPad2, according to a video of Shenzhen Satellite TV report posted to the QQ.com website today.
He confessed to his mother after she discovered the device and questioned how he could afford it, state media reported on June 2.
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