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Last week a couple was arrested in California for trying to sell their 8-month-old baby girl for $25 in a Walmart parking lot.
The couple, Patrick Alan Fousek, 38, and Samantha Tomasini, 20, was jailed and charged with child endangerment as well as possession of a controlled substance and a methamphetamine pipe. While in jail, the other inmates learned what Fousek did and brutally beat him, leaving the "father" with cracked ribs and facial injuries.
I'm sure there are a lot of people who think he got what he deserved for his appalling crime, but mostly I wish he'd gotten away with it.
There's a part of me that wishes some loving couple had forked over the cash and taken that baby far away from what is clearly a very troubled life. Some miracle that would seemingly drop out of the sky for a couple who had been battling infertility; or that someone who had been unsuccessfully trying to adopt stepped out for milk and came home with a baby for which she has been desperately yearning. Someone who would take the baby away with no record of the trauma into which she was innocently born.
Because now what for that baby? Will she be sent into a system of foster care? Will they give the parents another chance to be parents after rehab or prison time? How will this awful legacy haunt and affect the baby girl for the rest of her life?
If only someone would have just taken her away from it all with loving arms ...
I know there are better, safer methods and a "system" to deal with unwanted children, but oh how I wish there didn't have to be. Adoption is a wonderful, beautiful option, but I think it's often too "big" for people in such a desperate place to consider, whereas making a few quick bucks in the parking lot of your local discount retailer seems like an easy option.
We've asked before if parents should be allowed to sell their babies. And while I understand the dangers of letting that happen with no regulation, there's a part of me that wishes any parent who even thinks of selling their baby would be allowed to do so immediately. Because in most cases, I'm sure the children would be better off.
Do you think people should be able to sell their children?
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Comments (52)
Wow! Tough call but your sure have some great points!
I do see your points but what if whoever bought the baby is worse parents then the people that sold them in the first place. I really feel bad for that baby because he didnt ask to be born and have an a$$ of parents. I really hope he gets better loving parents.
As soon as I looked at the mother I said "they are probley doing meth, look at the bumps", It would be nice if someone could of took the baby from the parents but I dont think it would of worked that easy once you took the child how would you get medical care without all of her information?? I wish she didnt have to go through the system to find a new home I wish they would just let a good family have her. I'm happy the father got his @$$ kicked, I dont like violance but he got what was coming to him and thats not all thats coming believe me. I could not even think about ever doing that to one of my kids, what is this world coming to?
that is a good point but how do you n ot know that the person buying the baby wasnt sum child molestor or worse you dont know how many sick people are out there and even though that baby will be in foster care at least they have a chance to be with a good family.
If someone had boughten the baby they could of been charged with child trafficing.I hope that baby finds a nice and loving home. SHe won't be in foster care very long because of her age
no way!!!! i do not think it should be something that anyone can do. i don't know if it is because i had a baby recently that when i hear any news about a baby being endangered makes me upset and mad at the parents.
The sad thing is now that she is in the system the state will probably give her parents will probably get chance after chance to be her parents again before she can be officially adopted by a loving family. The real law should be once you mess up like trying to sell your baby your rights should be terminated for ever.
Sickness! I would have gladly given them $$ and given that baby a loving home! Yes, it will be entered into the foster system which is just as screwed up! We've tried the avenue of adopting thru the foster system...but they make it difficult to do! I would love to find a pregnant girl who would love to give up her baby, since that is probably the only way we will get a baby! These people are SICK...and YES, they will be given chance after chance to get this poor child back....tho it could take a very long time! this baby will suffer!!! So sad! I bet if you offered them the chance to hit the pipe or get the baby, they'd choose the pipe! Grrr!
Unfortunately there is no easy answer for children born into this circumstance. The child needs a birth certificate. Growing up, the child needs to know her history. Adoption means love for the adoptive parents, but it means loss for the child, at least to some degree. Although the "system" may not be as convenient as what you suggest, it is better for the child to know that she is where she is legitimately.
Another point - if someone says they are selling their child, how do you know they haven't kidnapped someone else's child and tried to sell her for drug money? Or that the mother hasn't been coerced? The child may have loving parents. Even if the child's bio parents are scum, she might still have other loving relatives who will raise her well and minimize the disruptions in her life.
I understand what you're saying. Maybe there are loving and nurturing couples/people out there who would find their child at a 'baby flea market', but I seriously doubt it. The vetting process involved with adoption is there for a reason. These parents are horrible and should never have been allowed to have a child (another debate entirely), but what kind of person would just buy a baby for 25 bucks? Any amount a baby would be worth to its parents, could be doubled or tripled in resale value on the black market. Sex trafficking, slavery, butchering for body parts, these things are all still alive and well in the world. If parents were allowed to sell their babies in an unregulated market in the States, those babies would end up anywhere in the world, including close to home, in a much worse life than anyone could imagine. Keep the regulation - one way we know adoptive parents are deserving is that they actually go through that exhaustive process to get their baby.