Authorities Investigate Mum About Her Twitter Post Offering To Sell Her Three-Year-Old Son

Authorities have investigated a mum who joked on Twitter about selling her three-year-old son.

Alex McDaniel, a journalist from Mississippi in the US, tweeted a funny conversation she had with her son about toilet training him.

However, things turned out differently for some after she responded to a tweet.

“3yo for sale,” she tweeted. “$12 OBO (or best offer).”

3yo for sale

$12 OBO

“” Alex McDaniel (@AlexMcDaniel) September 22, 2017

Other Twitter users took it as funny and responded hilariously to the tweet, except for one user who decided to call Child Protection Services, the Mirror reports.

After a few days, CPS showed up at her office and Ms McDaniel was told an anonymous man had reported her.

Things started getting serious when a CPS supervisor and attending police officer told Ms McDaniel her son had to be taken out of school so they could check on him, and that Ms McDaniel also had to undergo a home visit.

In a statement, Ms McDaniel said CPS told her the anonymous man cited her tweets as “undeniable proof” she was trying to sell her son.

Luckily, a lawyer helped her and her case was dismissed due to “zero evidence” she was trying to sell her toddler.

Ms McDaniel said that she understood that CPS were just doing their job.

However, Ms McDaniel said that it was just concerning that someone who follows her “parenting vignettes” would report her to CPS. Although she said she no proof that it was a “targeted attack”, she said that when “you’re a journalist, you either have enemies or you’re not doing your job”.

“It seems unimaginable that someone would despise my opinions on flags and statues so much that the only answer is to harm my family, but in some ways, it doesn’t seem that far-fetched,” Ms McDaniel writes. “When I started tweeting his obnoxious/hilarious quotes, I did it for other parents who know how hard this job is. Really hard.”

Despite what happened, Ms McDaniel said that his incident didn’t deter her from sharing funny stories about her family.

Source: Au.news.yahoo.com