The saddest child trafficking:his parents sold him just to pay..

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A 17-year-old Chinese boy named Liu Xuezhou was found to have committed suicide by taking dozens of antidepressant pills at a beach in Sanya, Hainan Province early on Monday morning. Liu was rushed to hospital by a passerby but still died around 4 am on Monday. 

Before he committed suicide, Liu posted a long post on his Sina Weibo account in which he recalled that his short life was destined for misfortune. 

He had claimed that he was a victim of child trafficking and had been rejected by his birth parents.

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Liu was born when his biological parents were not married. The young couple gave him away to his adoptive parents through a human trafficker in exchange for 6000 yuan as a bride-price to pay his mother's family. 

Liu's relatives later claimed that they spent 27000 yuan to receive that boy.

In 2009, when Liu was 4 years old, Liu's adoptive parents both died in an explosion caused by fireworks and firecrackers at home. He dodged the bullet of tragedy since he slept at his grandparents' home. 

However, he did not have good fortune after surviving the great disaster. 

The aunt of his adoptive family treated him like her own child but also left him and passed away after she got divorced. 

He tried to make school his spiritual home.

He faked a smile, studied hard, got all kinds of awards, became a student leader, and even went to be a volunteer.

Perhaps, the teenager who has never been loved, subconsciously thinks that as long as he is good enough, he will not be abandoned again.

But as an orphan, Liu constantly suffered from bullying at primary school and was even molested by a male teacher during junior high school. 

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Since childhood, he had heard hearsay that he was an adopted child. After he confirmed it with his grandparents, he posted a video on the website where abducted children's information is released to look for his biological parents. Many netizens were concerned about him and offered him help to find his biological parents. 

On December 15, 2021, the police in Linfen, Shanxi Province found Liu's biological father through DNA matching technologies but told him that his biological parents had divorced and got remarried to start new families. 

Although Liu finally met his biological parents in person, in Liu's words, the reunion between them seemed to be a mere formality, nothing like that of other parents who found their long-lost abducted children. 

biological parents with Liu

Both his biological mother and father, who had established new families and had new children, were unwilling to take him back. According to Liu, he had three half-brothers and one half-sister from his biological parents. 

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After he proposed to his parents to buy or rent a house for him since he had been staying in others' homes, his parents cut off contact with him and his mother even blocked him on WeChat. 

He later suffered from cyberbullying after exposing online his conversations with his mother, with many netizens criticizing that he just wanted a house from his parents and smearing him for his clothing style, which Liu explained was made up of counterfeit brands which he bought with his part-time job income. 

He had thought of proposing a civil action against his parents for abandoning him but dropped the idea. He posted last Tuesday about his adoptive parents' house that exploded and questioned if it was his fault to ask for his biological parents to provide him with accommodation. 

He only wish he could have a place to live, even if it was to rent a house.

Now many netizens felt sympathetic for his sufferings and death, and reflected on how to avoid such a miserable matter in the future. 

The local police in Datong, Shanxi Province said the case is under investigation.

One police officer said the boy's birth parents had been asked for a written statement. The boy's relatives said he had received antidepressants for over a year.

Source:globaltimes

Editor: Crystal H

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