adoption fraud investigations and child endangerment liability.
Authorities learned that the businesswoman had previously signed up in the past to adopt a child with the National Adoption Registry, but was not on a waiting list.
“The mother confessed, she told the whole story that they actually offered her a sum of money to hand over the baby,” Goiás Civil Police chief Humberto Teófilo told Brazilian news outlet G1.
“The money she was going to use to pay the rent and take a cooking course.”
The baby was turned over to child protection services and later placed under shelter care.
Florida woman tries to sell daughter to stranger
A Florida woman was arrested for trying to sell her daughter for $500 outside a local store — and then abandoning the child when confronted by an employee.
