South African woman ‘jailed’ for trying to sell baby
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A South African mother who tried to sell her 19-month-old baby boy on the Internet for US$340 was given a five-year suspended sentence, a justice official said yesterday.
The 20-year-old won’t spend time in jail, but will live under house arrest for three years.
The woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child, put the baby up for sale for 5,000 rand (US$340) in an advertisement on the Gumtree website last year.
Following a tip-off, the police who arrested her in an undercover operation in October.
“She was given a wholly-suspended sentence of five years,” a National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman said.
She will “undergo correctional supervision, which means basically house arrest for a period of three years.”
The mother said she had tried selling her baby after her boyfriend stopped paying childcare following paternity tests that showed he was not the child’s father.
Human trafficking carries a maximum life jail term or a fine of 100 million rand. But the court in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday handed down a lighter sentence after considering her circumstances.
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