India, June 25 -- A father in China who stole to fund his son's cancer treatment was still behind bars when the boy died. According to a report in South China Morning Post, Yu Haibo, 29, was in jail for stealing transformers when his son died of leukemia.

His son's ashes were scattered in a lake near the prison where Haibo was being held.

Yu Haibo grew up in China's northeastern Jilin province. Born to a farming family, he left school as a teenager and worked as a chef and welder. Before he turned 20, Haibo married his girlfriend.

When their son Jiayue was born in 2014, Haibo was earning just 2,000 yuan a month working at a car factory. His wife was a homemaker. At the age of three, Jiayue was diagnosed with leukemia - a type of cancer...