Woman tries to sell her son

[big4life]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (July 9) - A mother has been charged with trying to sell her toddler son for $500 so she could buy a stash of the addictive painkiller OxyContin.

Brianna Marie Burns, 23, could get up to five years in prison if convicted.

Burns' grandmother contacted authorities after Burns allegedly offered to sell her the 2-year-old child. An undercover officer wired the grandmother and provided her with $500 for the exchange, according to police documents.

Burns was arrested Monday after receiving the money and signing custody of the child over to her grandmother. She was being held on $102,500 bond.

Child Protective Services has placed the child with another family member.

OxyContin is a prescription painkiller often given to cancer patients. If chewed, snorted or injected, it produces a quick and potentially lethal high. The drug has been linked to more than 100 deaths.

The sale of a child was a misdemeanor in West Virginia until 1994, one year after a Charleston woman was convicted of trying to sell her 1-month-old baby to undercover officers for $1,400 so she could buy a mobile home. That led the state to change the law, making the crime a felony.

 

[HumanShell]

How offensive...please remove

 

[gotmilk]

addiction is a nasty disease..

 

[crmdogg]

painkillers are extremly addictive, watch out for them

 

[big4life]

What is even more sad is the woman who tried to sell her 1 month old baby to undercover cops for $1,400. So that she could buy a mobile home.

 

[FitFossil]

File that under the ol' saying "Being a parent makes you a better person..."

along with parents pimping their kids for drugs, letting countless kids roast to death in cars "by mistake", drowning 5 children one at a time in a bathtub "because God told me to", drowning their car plus kids, and then crying "a black man carjacked and took my pwecious babies"...

Is that what people mean when they say "It's different when they're your own...."

We need a license to drive, we have to be 21 to buy liquor, yet any dumb f*ck can bring a child into the world, because "it's my right..", yet somehow it's not their right to have to provide a decent home and upbringing. That's where the "village" concept comes into play, meaning the taxpayers' wallets.