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Florida Cops: Parents Tried to Sell Baby in Store Parking Lot for $30

Saturday , December 22, 2007





PENSACOLA, Fla. —

A couple was charged Friday with trying to sell their 2-month-old baby for $30 in a store parking lot, authorities said. Robert G. Ellingson, 23, approached two people in the PetSmart parking lot and offered them a beer. When they refused, he offered to sell his child, Escambia County Sheriff's officials said.

"At first they thought it was a joke," sheriff's spokesman Glenn Austin told the Pensacola News Journal. "But then the mother yelled to the group that they were trying to sell the baby. And one of them called us."

Ellingson and Maghen Duvala, 25, the baby's mother, were each charged with four counts of child

neglect. They were being held in Escambia County jail — he for $27,000 and she for $15,000. It was not immediately known if they had legal representation. They were expected to make a first appearance Saturday. The Department of Children & Families took custody of the baby, whose name was not released.

Authorities said the couple also tried to sell their baby in a bank parking lot a few blocks away an hour earlier. They are each charged separately for that incident by Pensacola police with one count of child neglect.

Oh My God, i think i'm spechless, words can't describe how that makes me feel.

How low, cruel can you get..........but that doesn't quite sum up how i'm feeling, i just can't believe that there are people like that out there and a lot worse.....i hate thinking about things like that happening :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I don't want to turn this into a debate or anything but, if i was in the situation, where i couldn't provide for myself or my baby, then i woud have to make the very heart breaking decision to give my baby up to a hospital, knowing that he/she would go to a loving home and would be better off. I would't resort to selling my baby to a random person on the street for a $ million, let alone $30

kinks;745223 wrote: I don't want to turn this into a debate or anything but, if i was in the situation, where i couldn't provide for myself or my baby, then i woud have to make the very heart breaking decision to give my baby up to a hospital, knowing that he/she would go to a loving home and would be better off. I would't resort to selling my baby to a random person on the street for a $ million, let alone $30


Totally agree with you Kinks

God goofed on that one, blessing those in-greats with an angel! :-5

My gyno - who later became a top specialist in infertility programs, told me once that in earlier days he'd had two streams of women in his waiting rooms. The first desperate to get a pregnancy termination, the second desperate to become pregnant. He said there was something screwy in the universe.

God-awful.

To add to the idiots that are blessed with children, I just read a heartbreaking story about a woman who sliced the throat of her 6 year old son .