Thursday, November 11, 2010

Baby For Sale

     On Tuesday, a Florida woman was charged with selling her baby in order to be able to buy a car.  The ordeal started when the grandmother of the child made the deal with a buyer.  The original price was going to be $75,000, but the buyers couldn't get a loan from the bank and the price for the child dropped to $30,000.   The 22 year old mother of the 8 week old boy was only going to receive $9,000 of the profit in order to buy a new vehicle and pay court costs from a prior violation.  The mother, grandmother and the grandmother's boyfriend all were arrested and charged for selling a child and the grandmother also was charged with communications fraud.  They were caught because the grandmother offered to sell the infant to a relative and the relative reported it to the authorities.  An agent then went undercover on the case and that is who they ended up selling the child to.  The child is currently in state custody.
     This is horrible that anyone could sell their child or grandchild.  I don't know how any normal person could do something like this and be OK with it.  Not to mention there are plenty of people out there that want children and can't, so if you don't want your child then you can put it up for adoption and make someone else happy with the joy of motherhood/fatherhood.  As for the money part maybe they should get a job and earn money like most of the rest of America.  I say most because we do have those that freeload off of the government.....but Hey, who am I to judge?

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