Pregnant women and new mums ‘using Facebook to sell babies’
Pregnant women and new mothers have allegedly been using Facebook to sell their babies illegally for up to $25,000.
Women in Brazil used pages named ‘I want to donate my baby" to connect with would-be mothers.
They risked playing into the hands of criminals by using ‘an unofficial system", waed police.
‘A mother could be negotiating with a paedophile, drug dealer or human trafficker," said Ademir de Oliveira, from the department for children and adolescents.
The Facebook pages, set up in June, have now been shut down. One page offering women the chance to give up their children was ‘liked" 150 times. Users posted messages on the public ‘wall".
‘My name is Gisele. I have a four-month-old son and I don"t have the conditions to care for him," said one. Another read: ‘White couple with a stable life. I cannot get pregnant and I want to adopt a baby." It is an offence under Brazilian law to charge money for adopting or to accept money for a child.
Police could not confirm if any of the adoptions had been completed.
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