Some iPhones, iPods made with child labor.

Maybe this is why they no longer make iPod Minis? From NY Daily News:

Parts of your iPod or iPhone could have been manufactured by a child.

At least eleven 15-year-old kids were working in three factories that supply Apple, according to the Telegraph.

Apple, which has factories in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, the Czech Republic, the United States, Taiwan and Singapore, would not release information about the specific factories using child labor. It did, however, say that it no longer employs children in its factories.

“In each of the three facilities, we required a review of all employment records for the year as well as a complete analysis of the hiring process to clarify how underage people had been able to gain employment,” Apple said, in an annual report on its suppliers.

This is not the first controversy to surround Apple factories. Last week, 62 workers were poisoned by n-hexane at a factory that supplies Apple and Nokia. Last year, a worker at one of Apple's main suppliers in Taiwan committed suicide after accusations emerged that he stole the iPhone prototype.