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Mother Caught Selling Baby for $1,500
Posted by Renddy Rose Rodriguez
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3/03/2009 04:30:00 AM
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter
meeyoo@koreatimes.co.kr
A 21-year-old mother was caught trying to sell her 29-day-old baby for 2 million won ($1,500) in an apparent attempt to overcome financial difficulties, police said Monday. According to the Daejeon Dunsan Police Station, the mother, identified only as Goh, handed over her one-month-old baby boy to a woman named Park, 21, in exchange for the cash in a Cheonan Station, South Chungcheong Province, waiting room on Feb. 8, 2009.
``Goh lives in a welfare facility in Seoul after running away from her home and gave birth to the baby last month without the father. The unmarried mother wrote on the Internet that she would sell her baby because she couldn't afford to raise him,'' police said. Park, said to be mentally disabled, did not actually pay for the baby. She stayed in a ``gosiwon,'' a cheap single-room accommodation, for a night with the child, but her mother reported the incident to police after discovering what had occurred.
``Park seems to have taken the baby out of curiosity,'' a police official said. ``The baby was safely handed over to a social welfare organization.''
Questions for Discussions
What can you say about this recent incident in your country?
What is your opinion on selling babies to overcome financial difficulties?
Do you think a mentally disabled person is fit to raise a child?
Do you know the percentage of women having babies out of wedlock?
What it the effect or impact of women having babies without being married or no other half to raised the child? Is Korean culture open to this kind of happenings?
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Staff Reporter
meeyoo@koreatimes.co.kr
A 21-year-old mother was caught trying to sell her 29-day-old baby for 2 million won ($1,500) in an apparent attempt to overcome financial difficulties, police said Monday. According to the Daejeon Dunsan Police Station, the mother, identified only as Goh, handed over her one-month-old baby boy to a woman named Park, 21, in exchange for the cash in a Cheonan Station, South Chungcheong Province, waiting room on Feb. 8, 2009.``Goh lives in a welfare facility in Seoul after running away from her home and gave birth to the baby last month without the father. The unmarried mother wrote on the Internet that she would sell her baby because she couldn't afford to raise him,'' police said. Park, said to be mentally disabled, did not actually pay for the baby. She stayed in a ``gosiwon,'' a cheap single-room accommodation, for a night with the child, but her mother reported the incident to police after discovering what had occurred.
``Park seems to have taken the baby out of curiosity,'' a police official said. ``The baby was safely handed over to a social welfare organization.''
Questions for Discussions
What can you say about this recent incident in your country?
What is your opinion on selling babies to overcome financial difficulties?
Do you think a mentally disabled person is fit to raise a child?
Do you know the percentage of women having babies out of wedlock?
What it the effect or impact of women having babies without being married or no other half to raised the child? Is Korean culture open to this kind of happenings?
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