Mum tries to sell baby on EBay
Published: 26 May, 2008, 14:07
A 23-year old German mum tried to sell her “nearly new” baby on eBay. The start bid was 1 euro, reports the Die Welt daily.
“Here I offer my nearly new baby, as it has become too loud for me” was posted under the photo of the 8-month old kid.
The offer “Baby – only for self pick up” was deleted in about two and a half hours after its creation. However, it has raised a rush of indignation from eBay customers, who immediately reported it to police, so the neglectful mother has been arrested together with her husband.
The young woman insists she posted this offer just for fun, but the police of Bavaria’s Unterallgaeu province could barely find anything funny in the act.
The mum is known to be a devoted eBay-user.
The baby has been taken to a children hospital to undergo a medical examination. The officials are now to take a decision whether it could be adopted.
The police representatives are said to be very pleased with the fact that the scandalous offer has raised no single bid.
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The Mum said it was a joke..... it was funny...there where no bidders obviously, and had there been the mum wouldn't have actually sold her child....otherwise she'd have done it less conspicuously... and they're thinking of adopting the child and taking it away from its natural mother....? what kind of pathetic action is this? or am I on the wrong end of a bad joke?