In a disturbing world trend, women in Ukraine, Brazil, Russia and the United States have been imprisoned for trying to sell their own children. The cases have shocked communities and caused renewed calls of more difficult laws on child protection.
In Ukraine, a 20 -year -old woman from DNIPRO was sentenced to eight years in prison after trying to sell her two -year -old son for £ 18,000. The authorities say that money would start a business.
“According to her, she didn't want to take care of her son, so she decided to get rid of him,” said the Ukrainian police.
The images published by the officials show at the time it was arrested after receiving cash. His son was immediately taken in protective custody.
“He found a potential buyer, whom he offered to deliver to the child for a cash payment of one million Hryvnias,” said Dnipropetrovsk prosecutor's office. She declared herself innocent.
According to reports, in Brazil, a woman tried to sell her 27 -day baby to pay for rent and register in the baking lessons.
The child was rescued in Goiânia, about 560 miles from São Paulo. Police said the mother admitted to having accepted money in exchange for her newborn.
“The mother confessed, she told the whole story that they actually offered a sum of money to deliver to the baby,” said Goiás Civil Police Chief Humberto Teófilo. The baby was placed in protective attention.
Russia saw a similar case in 2019, when Rasulzhan Kyzy Barnokhon accepted £ 11,512 for her one -week girl in Moscow. It was not his first attempt to sell to a son.
“She said she met a man online and wanted to go out with him. But before that, she wanted to sell to her children that, according to her, they were an” obstacle to dating men, “said Yulia, an alternative NGO activist.
Barnokhon was pregnant with his third child at that time. He had also published his one -year daughter for online sale. “After the agreement is made, we don't know each other,” he allegedly told an undercover buyer.
In the United States, Jessica Woods, 33, was arrested in Florida after trying to sell her 18 -month -old daughter out of $ 500 out of an H&R Block office.
The witnesses said Woods first entered the business to use the bathroom and was seen hitting the child. When he was offered, he allegedly said: “You can have the B ***** D” and abandoned it.
The child was taken to the Palatka Police Department and placed in parenting care. Woods was accused of child abuse, negligence, abandonment and sale of a minor. His bonus was set at $ 255,000.
In South Africa, Kelly Smith was recently condemned by traffic and kidnapping to her six -year -old daughter, Joshlin, who disappeared in February 2024.
Joshlin has not been found. Prosecutors said Smith sold her to a bleeding, a traditional healer, due to her “clear eyes and skin.”
The neighbors accused Smith of selling the girl for around $ 1,000. A witness testified: “She [Kelly] He confessed that he had sold his son to a bleeding. “
These disturbing cases highlight a global crisis in which children are being mercantile, even for their own parents. The authorities continue to investigate, as children's defenders press for stronger preventive measures.
(Daily Mail)
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