Parents Put Newborn Girl For Sale on eBay

Migrant parents are now being questioned in Germany by police after they put their newborn girl up for sale on eBay.

The migrant parents of one-month-old girl named Maria are currently under the watch of social services after they put the baby girl up for sale on eBay.

The seller stated that Maria lives in the city of Duisburg in western Germany’s state of North Rhine-Westphalia. There were also photographs of dark-haired Maria wearing a variety of sleepsuits in the listing. She was listed in for auction on the site with a starting price of €5,000 ($7162) along with the caption: “Child, 40 days old named Maria”¦ for sale.”

The listing immediately went viral on social media and internet forums.

eBay then took down the listing within 30 minutes after it was handed over to police.

It has now been discovered that the baby belongs to a refugee family after the father, who only recently moved to Germany, turned himself into police, who took the smartphone he used to make the ad as part of their investigation.

The baby was taken into care while a decision is made on whether or not the man will face charges after he attempted to claim that he had not meant the ad seriously.

The chairman of the Christian-Democratic Union of the Rheinhausen district of Duisburg, Klaus Moennicks, believes that there should be consequences for the father of the child regardless of whether he was serious or not.

“If the parents believe that they cannot provide the child with proper care, we have the possibility in Germany to give the child up for adoption or to give it to a foster family,” Moennicks said, adding that “selling a baby and human trafficking are absolutely the wrong way.”

Thankfully, the youth services of the city of Duisburg said that the baby is physically well as confirmed by medical authorities.

A spokesman said: “The child is currently housed in a nursing family, where she will remain until the whole situation is clarified. It is still possible Maria could eventually return to her parents – if it can be proven the parents are not criminally liable.”

Source: Dailymail.co.uk