A 22-year-old mother has tried to sell her two kids on Facebook for $5000. Hilarious, right? That’s probably what she thought. Until she was arrested.
Misty VanHorn allegedly tried to sell her two-year-old for $1,000, and asked for $4,000 for her four-year-old to get enough cash to bail her boyfriend out of jail.
Hollywood Life reports the young mother allegedly resorted to selling her children on the social media site after door knocking for neighbourhood failed.
Perhaps the most shocking part of the story is that she found a buyer.
According to The Daily Dot Misty contacted another woman in Arkansas to negotiate the sale.
“Just come to Sallisaw, it’s only 30 minutes away and I’ll give you all of her stuff and let y’all have her forever for $1,000,” Ms VanHorn reportedly wrote to the women.
The young mother was arrested and is being held by the state of Oklahoma for $40,000. The woman who tried to buy her babies may also be charged with the trafficking of minors.
Two years ago a Victorian woman was being investigated by detectives from the Sexual Offences and Child Abuse unit after she put her kids up for sale on eBay ‘for a joke’.
Detectives decided not to press charges at the time but treated the issue very seriously.
“We need to get to the bottom of why she did this,” a spokesman from the Department of Human Services said at the time.
“Is there a mental illness, is the mother not coping or was it simply a joke?”
