I couldn’t make this up. From Doctor Arrested for Selling Patients as Wives:
Chinese police arrested the director of a psychiatric hospital for drugging female patients and selling them off as wives, a police official said Tuesday.Dr Wang Chaoying, head of a mental hospital in Huazhou in southern Guangdong, had made more than 20 transactions since 1998 in which he sold patients as wives for ‘thousands of yuan,’ the government-owned Qianlong news Web site reported at www.qianlong.com.
‘He was arrested for selling women. The case is still under investigation,’ Ruan Rongzhi, a police officer in Huazhou, told Reuters by telephone when asked about the report. He declined to give details.
Qianlong said the women had been forced to take medicine before they were sold in order to keep the buyers from realizing they were mental patients.
Some of the men later demanded refunds, it said.
China has 70 million bachelors unable to find wives. Men outnumber women as a result of a one-child policy which led to many fetuses of girls, traditionally discriminated against, being aborted.