“My Babies Are For Sale”

Are you shocked?  Well, so was I when I read of a young woman who tried to sell her children on Facebook.  I wondered what could possess a woman to put her children up for sale?  If you think you’re shocked at the fact that this pitiful excuse of a mother was willing to sell her kids..wait until you find out the reason.

Meet Misty Van Horn.

Misty is a 22 year old woman who was desperate to get her boyfriend out of jail.  She went door to door asking for people to give money so she could bond him out.  Unsuccessful, she thought of a sure way to raise the money…she would sell her kids.  She contacted a woman on Facebook and offered to sell 1 child for $1000 each or you could buy both kids for $4000 (yeah, do the math..that was Misty’s idea of a discount!)  This was the value she put on her children and the price she was willing to accept to get her sleazeball boyfriend out of jail.

As shocked as I was, I dug a little deeper and found that Misty is only one of a number of other mothers who have put their babies up for sale.

Rose Faucett and Phillip Hester, an Indiana couple,  had a beautiful baby daughter.  They were arrested when it was reported that they had signed a contract to sell their daughter to a convicted child molester and his sister, a convicted child abuser.  The price? $300.00.

Anna Riggs, 26, of Indiana, and her husband, Brandon Riggs, considered their 4-month-old daughter a little more valuable; they sold their child for $13,000, a used car and oh yeah, a stockpile of drugs.  What a deal!  Did I mention that they sold their baby to a couple of drug dealers?

Two Walmart shoppers in Salinas, CA., called police, after Patrick Fousek, 38, offered to sell them his 6-month-old daughter for $25. The women told police that they thought Fousek was joking, but when he insisted, they became alarmed. Fousek and the child’s mother, 20-year-old Samantha Tomasini were arrested and Fousek was sent to jail. He was severely beaten by inmates who had heard of what he had allegedly done. I guess some criminals frown on selling your child.

Luckily, all of these so-called parents were discovered and arrested and the children were placed in protective care.

I couldn’t find out if these parents had been sentenced or if they had, what the sentence was.  I can only hope that they serve prison time for the crimes they committed and if the mothers have children in the future..child services keeps an eye out for those kids.

I do know that Misty has pleaded not guilty.  So, she gets her day in court, where she can tell the judge why her boyfriend was more important than her two kids.  Wish I could be there!

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