Shocking footage shows the moment a mother is arrested after trying to sell her two-year-old son for £18,000 in Ukraine.
The woman, 20, from Dnipro, reportedly wanted to use the money ‘to start her own business’. The unnamed mother was detained when the buyer handed her cash, according to the country’s national police.
A video shows a police officer counting the money, and the detained mother being handcuffed.
A social worker is seen carrying the child to a waiting car to take the boy into care.
Today it was announced that the woman had been convicted of human trafficking against a minor, and imprisoned for eight years.
‘According to her, she did not want to take care of her son, so she decided to get rid of him,’ said a police statement.
The buyer was known to her, it was alleged.
‘She planned to open her own business with the money she received.
‘The crime was documented by the police departments of the migration police and the investigative department of the Main Police Department in Dnipropetrovsk region in cooperation with the criminal analysis department.’
The child was initially sent to doctors and is now in the care of social services.
‘She found a potential buyer, to whom she offered to hand over the minor for a cash payment of one million [Ukrainian] hryvnias [£18,000/$23,960],’ said the Dnipropetrovsk prosecutor’s office.
The woman had pleaded not guilty.