Baby-Sold Chinese Youngster Returns Home 17 Years Later Only to Commit Suicide After Being Rejected Twice by His Parents

A Chinese adolescent discovered his birth parents after making a social media appeal. He committed suicide after the reunion took a sour turn.

Liu Xuezhou, 17-year-old. Photo credit: nypost.com/Weibo

In a case that stunned the country, a Chinese adolescent who was reunited with his parents 17 years after they sold him as a newborn committed himself. Liu Xuezhou, a 17-year-old aspiring teacher, died of an overdose of antidepressants.

Liu Xuezhou's birth parents sold him at birth in 2005, but he became an orphan at the age of four when his adopted parents, two farmers from northern China’s Hebei province, perished in a home explosion.

Liu spent most of his life being transferred from relative to relative following the accident.

He lived with his adoptive mother’s parents, whom he referred to as his grandparents, and subsisted on child support and the help of his adoptive father’s relatives.