Woman Tried To Sell Her Baby For $10

[matcom]

<snip>

A Milwaukee woman was arrested early Wednesday for trying to sell her 6-day-old baby girl to a neighbor for $10, Milwaukee police said.

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The woman, 32, came to her neighbor's door twice, the second time with the infant in her arms, police spokesman Sgt. Ken Henning said.

"She asked, 'Would you buy my baby for $10?' " Henning said.

The neighbor slammed the door and called police to the woman's apartment in the 3400 block of N. 40th St., Henning said.

Officers found the suspect, the newborn and a 1-year-old daughter, living in an apartment strewn with spoiled food and no refrigerator or stove, he said.

Denise Revels Robinson, director of the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare, said Wednesday the children were being given a health screening. She said it's believed the baby was born Oct. 7. The other child was born Jan, 24, 2003, she said. There were no visible signs of abuse on the children, she said. They were placed in foster homes.

This morning, a social worker will go to Children's Court to seek a petition declaring the children in need of protection, she said.

Although information was still being compiled on the case, Revels Robinson said she understands the woman has three other children who are living outside the state with relatives.

Henning said the girls' mother was in jail.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct04/266489.asp

[soothsayer]

1. hey, this must be part of *'s economic recovery. No abortion=sell kids!

[Dogmudgeon]

2. That's not funny, that's sad.

The woman just needs to go to a faith-based community college. Right?

--bkl

[amandae]

3. No, she needs a husband

It's the "No Single Mother Left Behind Act." Bush's idea is that if women just found a husband they wouldn't be in poverty.

:eyes: At least it has nothing to do with the quality of jobs and minimum wage being too low to support anyone on.

[kitkatrose]

7. No, she just needs to go to a maternity home.

:eye: whatever that is supposed to be.

[miss_kitty]

4. In Bush's America

everyone is better off than they were 4 years ago, right?

[redqueen]

5. Fighting. evil. thoughts.

Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.
Forced sterilization is bad.


It's not working.

:nuke:

:puke:

[Zuni]

6. But didn't Bush say last night

that he was funding maternity group homes for these people?

[liontamer]

8. why is she in jail?

it seems that she was combining two commendable aims : adoption and capitalism. Isn't this the american thing to do?

[truthbetold]

9. Wow.

Inflation, huh?
I keed, I keed.
Hey if you don't laugh, you cry.