Mother sells her baby for $700 in Peru
March 26th, 2010 - 12:40 pm ICT by IANSLima, March 26 (IANS/EFE) A woman in Peru’s Puno region allegedly sold her four-month-old son for 2,000 soles ($700), a media report said.
The mother, 40-year-old Agripina M., confessed to the act before the Municipal Defender of Children and Adolescents in Juliaca town, while accusing two neighbours of having induced her to commit the crime and then appropriating the money she had received, RPP radio reported Thursday.
Agripina was turned over to the judiciary in Puno, a region where 80 percent of the population lives in poverty.
She, meanwhile, asked for help to recover her baby, whose whereabouts are unknown, the report said.
Reports from NGOs have said that some 1,600 children, aged seven and younger, disappear each year in Peru, and most of them are thought to have become the victims of traffickers.
–IANS/EFE
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