Drug-dealing moms avoid prison time

Zhi Hui, 35, has become the unlikely poster child for women dealing drugs in Nanjing after she evaded prison five times on grounds that she was a mother.

Zhi, a single mother of three, was pregnant with her first son when she was caught in 2011 for possession of 150 grams of methamphetamine and heroin.

"The police said I could post bail and stay at home. Then, after a year, I accidentally became pregnant again. I needed to make money to raise my children, so I had a third baby to stay away from jail and sustain my drug business," Zhi said in an interview with Xinhua.