Five people have been charged with intentional injury to a Chinese teenager who was so desperate to buy an iPad and iPhone that he sold his kidney for just over £2,000.
The accused, from southern China, include a surgeon who removed a kidney from a 17-year-old boy in return for around 220,000 yuan - just over £20,000.
Prosecutors in Chenzhou city, Hunan province, said one of the defendants received the money to arrange the transplant. He paid the teenager, identified only as Wang, 22,000 yuan - just over £2,000 - and split the rest with the surgeon, the three other defendants and other medical staff.
A Chinese boy from southern China sold his kidney to buy a coveted iPad
The teenager, identified only by his surname Wang, comes from Anhui, one of China's poorest provinces, where inhabitants frequently leave to find work and a better life elsewhere.
He now suffers from renal deficiency, according to the government-run Xinhua News Agency.
Following the surgery in April last year, Wang bought an iPhone and iPad.
When his mother quizzed him on how he funded the sought-after goods, he admitted selling a kidney.
It is not known who received and paid for the kidney.
The organ industry in China is booming and trading organs is a widespread online practice in the country.
Is this kid Desperate or Stupid?
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