The claim sounds like fiction, but it is real, and, if it proves to be true, it goes far beyond the bottom line of our sense of morals and ethics.

A mother has accused an obstetrician at the obstetrical and gynecological hospital in Fuping county of Northwest China's Shaanxi province of selling her newborn baby to infant traffickers.

She claims the couple was told that their baby had been born with a congenital disease and deformity and was persuaded to give up the child, and that the doctor sold the baby to a group of criminals engaged in the business of selling babies.