Reply #3: It may have been a loving family. [View All]

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Although I think would it would be quite outrageous if people were selling their children right and left - so they add a porch to their house or whatever.

It probably was in the girl's interest to be raised by someone who valued her more than that. I guess that people do pay money to adopt children - but it seemed to me the idea was supposed to be that if someone received money for a baby - it was supposed to be about covering expenses - not like a baby was being "bought".


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"....He was having difficulties raising the child alone and wanted to use the money for some home remodeling," Kopp said.

Danny Vu, 37, was charged Friday with unauthorized adoption placement, a felony that carries up to six years in prison.

The daughter showed no signs of physical abuse, Kopp said. Brown County officials will probably place her in temporary foster care.

The man wanted to sell the girl "and didn't want anything to do with the baby after that," Outagamie County District Attorney Carrie Schneider said.

The man owns a nail salon in Green Bay. A salon employee told the man he knew a Grand Chute woman who was looking to adopt a baby, and the man and the Grand Chute woman were introduced, police said. A friend of the woman later called police.

Schneider said the couple wanted to contact attorneys and follow legal adoption procedures, but the man did not want to involve attorneys."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/22/daughter.forsale.ap/index.html