Woman tries to sell grandson for $30k

[Akasa]

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/11...ml?source=mypi

[Rapscallion]

So, are you for or against?

Rapscallion

[IDrinkaRum]

In the article, it said that the mother of said child was incarcerated. Seems like to me, the "Grandmother" was tired of watching the baby, and wanted to make a quick buck.

I feel sorry for the baby.

Not sure what the mother is in jail for, but I bet when she asked her mother to watch over her grandchild, her own flesh & blood, she wasn't thinking her mother would sell her baby!

Gah .... That's just ... sick.

Daily Mail has an article about it

The baby was 8-weeks old.

[KitterCat]

Imagine what the conversation between grandma and Mom would be that after the mother got out of jail.

Mom ::“I’m out of jail. Where’s my little guy? Mommy what’s to give her little guy a big hug. ::noticing lack of child:: Hey grandma where’s the baby?

Grandma ::“Well a funny thing happened last week, but on a brighter note we haven’t had to change a dipper since and I’ve got all theses collectors plates of Elvis.”

[Eisa]

^No kidding. Poor baby. Although I suppose maybe whoever she sold him to might have taken better care of him, not like Grandma was doing a stellar job.

[Greenday]

But she needed that new Chevy Malibu. I mean, it's a Chevy Malibu, a must have when it comes to cars. (no offense meant to anyone who owns one)

Gotta pay for a new car somehow.

[Akasa]

I think if she was tired of taking care of the baby she could have tracked down the father, not tried to sell the baby. Of course the baby would have probably been in better hands had it been sold to a couple desperate for a child as opposed to a grandmother who would sell it, but the mother probably wasn't in on this plot and would have been very distraught when she found out about it.

[IDrinkaRum]

Update

Stephanie Bigbee Fleming, the mother of the 8-week-old boy, KNEW her mother was going to sell the baby and wanted in on some of the money

This ... person ... KNEW HER MOTHER WAS GOING TO SELL HER BABY. She wanted some of the money to pay for a car. A car.

WTH is wrong with people?

[Peppergirl]

Ugh. My stomach just turned.

Clearly the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[Andara Bledin]

I'd say the biological daughter that was given up for adoption 27 years ago got lucky to get out of the upbringing her younger sister got. She's the one that originally alerted police, by the way, as grandma had first offered the baby to her upon hearing she wanted one of her own.

I strongly suspect that if there are not other, closer relatives, the first daughter might end up with the child anyway.

^-.-^

[KitterCat]

Hey GreenDay. You were right! It wasn’t the Elvis plates. She really just needed a new car.