Tuesday 21 January 2014

Whatever is the world coming to..?

From The Mirror, February 2013: Mum, 22, arrested on child trafficking charges after 'trying to sell her kids on Facebook for $5,000'

From The Mirror, January 2014: Pregnant teenager 'sells unborn baby on Facebook for just £68'

Facebook is a social networking site! If you want to sell stuff you use eBay or Gumtree.

6 comments:

A K Haart said...

Hmm - is it anything to do with feedback?

Mark Wadsworth said...

AKH, do you mean the mothers wanted to see how many 'likes' or 'dislikes' their kids got?

Leg-iron said...

There was one woman who advertised her child for sale on Gumtree.

They arrested her too. Even though she was doing it right.

Mark Wadsworth said...

LI, well spotted.

DBC Reed said...

Murray Rothbard, idol of the libertarians, proposed that selling your children should be legalised as should letting them die of neglect.

Bayard said...

Was he being ironic, like Swift and his "Modest Proposal"?