A 30-year-old Bolivian woman was arrested for selling her new-born baby for the equivalent of $140, the police said on Thursday.
Police official Jose Borda, who heads the division of trafficking of persons in the city of Cochabamba, identified the woman as Jesusa Molle and said she acknowledged during questioning selling the baby girl.
The woman “at first pretended that the baby girl was kidnapped from the maternity ward” but later admitted having sold the new-born for 1,000 bolivianos, the equivalent of $140 dollars.
The mother, a domestic worker from an indigenous family, said she had agreed to the sale because she could not afford to care for the child after being abandoned by her husband.
Authorities also arrested the buyer, 35-year-old Evangelina Suarez, who could not have children of her own and had agreed on the deal two months earlier.
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Aussie woman kills her sister over hair tongs row
Sydney : A 22-year-old Australian woman was jailed for four years on Friday for stabbing her sister to death after an argument over a pair of hair tongs.
Kathleen Worrall knifed her 18-year-old sister Susan 50 times as Susan got out of the bath, New South Wales Supreme Court heard, accepting a manslaughter plea over a rare hormonal condition that causes “an abnormality of the mind”.
The two sister had earlier come to blows over the hair straightener, and Kathleen finally snapped when her sister changed the password on their computer.
The Australian court heard that Kathleen suffered sharp weight gain as a result of the treatment for her congenital condition, as well as high levels of testosterone.
—AFP