Granddad reunited with the Chinese boy whose parents sold him in a park and split the money
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A three-year-old boy from southeastern Fujian province who was sold for 120,000 yuan (US$17,816) by his parents a year ago is back in the custody of his grandparents, police said.
Officers in Jinjiang city returned the boy to his grandfather this week after the child was found with a couple who bought him last January, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
The boy had been raised by his paternal grandparents since he was eight months old. On one of their occasional visits, his parents took him, the boy’s grandfather said.
In December, while visiting his son who had been jailed for drugs offences, the grandfather learned the child had been sold.
Police tracked down the boy and his “adoptive” parents in January. A DNA test proved the child’s relationship to the grandfather.