Li Longwang, 19, and his wife Li Ying, 18, from Hunan Province said they didn't want their three-year-old son and two-year-old daughter and newly born baby boy back even after police found them, according a report on Hunan's news portal Rednet.cn.
"Please don't send them back. We don't want them," the couple reportedly told police in Hunan's Jiangyong County when they were questioned in the detention centre.
The couple apparently were not worried about their detention as they smilingly asked "when can we get out?" Net addicts for long, the two met in an Internet cafe in Huizhou City in in 2007.
Li dropped out of school in Hunan and moved in with Li Ying. Soon She became pregnant and wanted an abortion, but her boyfriend's mother didn't approve.
In 2008, Li Ying gave birth to a son. But when the boy was one-month-old, the couple left them with their parents, saying that looking after the baby was interfering with their surfing routine.
The couple sneaked out to visit internet cafes some 30 km from their village five times in the first month after the baby was born. Each time, Li Longwang's mother found them and dragged them back home. Their second child was born in 2009.
This time, the couple, now unemployed and relying on handouts from their parents, sold the girl for 3,000 yuan (USD 465) to a family they met on a street.
But the money soon ran out, spent in internet cafes, restaurants and entertainment venues. To earn more, they decided to sell their elder son and raised 30,000 yuan via a middleman.
They came police attention when they sold their third baby to a child less couple for 7,000 yuan, saying they couldn't afford to raise him and wanted to find foster parents for the baby's sake.
They were detained after Li Longwang's mother told police on June 15 that her grandson was missing.
Police traced the three children in an investigation that covered Hunan and Guangdong provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Police said they were reluctant to accept them even though they were charged with child trafficking.