Parents sell infant for Rs. 50,000; buy house for Rs. 18,000

1 September 2014 04:17 pm

Police today arrested the parents of a week-old infant and four others for allegedly selling the infant for Rs.50, 000 yesterday in Modera.

Police said among the arrested were a couple who bought the baby and two other women believed to be the brokers who arranged the deal.

Initial police investigations revealed that the infant’s mother and father, who already have a two year-old child, had purchased a temporally-built shanty at Lellama in Modera for Rs.18, 000 after selling their infant.

The mother had given birth to the infant on August 24 at the Ragama Teaching Hospital. The infant had been sold to the new family from Uswetikeyyawa at the hospital premises soon after she was discharged from hospital on August 29.

Police said the man who bought the infant was a butcher by profession.