1 euro eBay baby goes home
The German baby taken from his parents after they put him up for sale on eBay for a euro--apparently as a joke--is back home, according to the Associated Press.
"The child has been returned to his parents," prosecutor Johannes Kreuzpointer told the AP on Thursday.
The parents had told the authorities the posting had been a joke. Prosecutors eventually agreed and dropped their investigation into child trafficking, the news service reported.
The original ad that ran May 24 stated: "Offering my nearly new baby for sale, as it has gotten too loud. It is a male baby, nearly 28 inches long and can be used either in a baby carrier or a stroller." The parents, both in their early 20s and residents of Unterallgau, were not identified. The bid price, 1 euro, is equivalent to about $1.57.
Otto Gaschler, deputy chief of youth services in Unterallgau, told the AP that the posting was "like a game for them. They never thought that this stupid joke could have such an effect."
Gaschler said he didn't know how exactly how long the infant was away from home but said it was for several days. "The parents always had contact to their son," he noted. A social worker is checking on the family, he told the AP.
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These parents should immediately sue the social services in Germany, and get a big settlement out of them. Then, maybe the German authorities will use their brains and THINK before they try to steal a baby from someone the next time.
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Secondly, if the person in question thought that this baby was actually for sale and offered money for this child, then THEY deserve to be investigated.
You are just a plain and simply total idiot who has no sense of humor, and I really hope that someone smacks you silly and implants a sense of humor into you.
The only thing that it is: a joke. The same way that black jokes are funny, the same way that jokes about '******' are funny, etc.
Secondly, he will not suffer 'some form of inferiority' unless other people than his parents try to make him feel that he is 'inferior'.
Also, the only thing this will do, is make his parents view and treat the SOCIAL SERVICES like the total idiots they are. This is the main reason why I do not trust social services EVEN THOUGH I WORKED FOR THEM FOR A SHORT TIME: because I saw WAY too many cases where they basically stole children from loving families because the families 'didn't have enough money' or something else stupid like this.