Poor Chinese Dad Chains Son To Post And Auctions Him Off To Highest Bidder

Extreme poverty in China is driving some parents to do desperate things, which is sad and ironic, at the same time, considering one would think the communist system would provide for its poor. But sadly there are poor that exist in every country and in every political system, and we can't seem to get a handle on the situation. The global economic meltdown hasn't helped matters whereby those who once were able to fend for themselves, financially, are now unable to.

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Recently, one Chinese couple were forced to tie their young 2-year-old boy, Cheng Jingdan, to a pole while they scrounged for work because they couldn't afford childcare. Their young daughter had been kidnapped, and they didn't want the same fate to happen to their little boy. As a result of the publicity, he was offered free daycare and is now in nursery school paid for by generous donors.

Having read about the good people who helped Jingdan, Yong Tsui, the father of an 8-year-old boy decided to do something similar, only in this case he decided to auction off his boy to the highest bidder.

A father staged a modern-day slave auction after chaining his son to a lamppost and taking bids from strangers to take the terrified eight-year-old off his hands.

Father Yong Tsui had put up a small table with a sign on it giving the youngster's age, name, and his capacity for hard work.

But when bidders began to ask how little he could eat, furious passers by turned on the auction and attacked Fai's father to stop the sale in Wuhan, central China.

The boy, who is now under police care, were told by Yong that he was unable to care for his child since the boy's mother had died and he was unemployed.

'He has no job, no home and no money. He says he wasn't interested in the money, just finding a home for the boy,' said one officer.

I have no idea how a human being could sell their own child, and perhaps had he tried to put the boy up for adoption, if he truly was unable to support him, rather than tying him up and trying to sell him as if he was some kind of farm animal, I would have a tad more sympathy for the man. But just look at the boys eyes, and your heart breaks. At least the parents of Jingdan tied up their child for his own safekeeping. Desperate measures for desperate times.

The reaction to the two different situations is also interesting. The parents of Jingdan received much needed help. The father of Fai, received a beating. But regardless of how one feels, both situations are tragic, for all involved.