Couple Tries to Sell Baby at Wal-mart for $25.00
Published by Jo Oliver on June 25, 2010 in USA & Canada-
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I know that Wal-Mart is willing to sell just about anything, but I think even they would draw the line at selling a baby for $25.00.
I have had a lot of arguments lately about the legalization of drugs. I wrote an article here, which seemed to stir a lot of debate by viewers. The common argument seems to be that marijuana is a human right, it doesn’t hurt anyone aside the user, legalizing it would take the taboo factor away and thus decrease usage, and/or it could provide needed revenue to states. My main problem is that marijuana is not the only drug of choice, and once you legalize one drug as a human right, how do you draw the line? I mean, is crack, meth, coke, etc.. a human right? To me, this would be like saying a wine cooler is legal, but vodka isn’t. It either all has to be legal, or none.
This news story coming out of Salinas California is prime example of why legalizing drugs would not stop the atrocities that go along with it.
Patrick Fousek, age 38, and Samantha Tomasini, age 20, were arrested early Wednesday morning for trying to sell their 6-month-old baby outside of Wal-Mart. They approached two women and asked if they would like to buy their baby for a bargain price of $25.00. At first, the women thought that the couple was kidding. However, Patrick became quite persistent, and it quickly became apparent that the baby being for sell was not a joke.
Thank God these women called the police with all the information they needed to track the couple back to their home. I hate to even imagine what might have become of this child if this couple would have approached someone with sinister thoughts about children.
Officers arrived at the home to find Patrick and Samantha apparently “high” on methamphetamine and the house in complete disarray. Samantha admitted to Child Protective Services that she had breastfed the infant while under the influence of narcotics.
Police charged them both with child endangerment and being under the influence of narcotics. Patrick was also charged with probation violation.
Legalizing narcotics would not decrease incidences like this, it would just give legal outlets to ignore the victims of drug abuse.
This is so bad! Thanks for sharing!
The world has gone crazy!!.. Interesting share..
So bad…how could parents do this to their child.
I hope they lock these two up and throw away the key!
When I use to be a waitress in Vancouver a woman tried selling her baby in the restaurant where I worked.. this would have been 18 years ago.
When you must have a drug, all methods would seem fair to the user. I must commend the alert ladies who reported it.
This is a horrifying story- but moral outrage aside, keeping drugs *illegal* doesn’t stop people from doing such things either. It does however, discourage people with drug problems from coming forward.
Recently, a man was arrested for forcing his child to drink alcohol. He was drunk. Lots of people abuse their spouses and children while drunk– unfortunately, many people can say “my father was a good man, unless he was drinking.”
Yet alcohol is legal. The things a person may do while under its influence are not. The reason for this? Not every person who is intoxicated is going to try to sell their baby.
Drugs are a scourge on society whether legal or not. Even legalized over the counter and prescription drugs come with pages full of warnings about negative side effects.
We legalize alcohol and tobacco and don’t seem to have a problem stopping there. We legalize sexual activity and 18 and don’t have a problem stopping there. This argument about this unstoppable drugs legalization once marijuana is legalized is specious. It’s not much different than legalize same sex marriage and we’ll be legalizing bestiality next. Assume in the case though that amphetamines were legalized. These people would have a legal means to purchase it and therefore less need to access it illegally. There is no getting around terrible parents or terrible people and the poor choices that they make, horrible things are going to happen, drug legalization or not. Finally, there are different categories of drugs, marijuana has already been proven to be less harmful than others so there is a scientific basis for treating it differently.
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Thank you,
Jo
They are surely not clever enough by selling the baby just ousite a Supermarket. I guess they intended to attract attentions so they can go to prison……
I agree that this is a heartbreaking story, and is a prime example of how drug abuse ruins so many lives.
That said, I just want to point out a misconception.
“My main problem is that marijuana is not the only drug of choice, and once you legalize one drug as a human right, how do you draw the line? I mean, is crack, meth, coke, etc.. a human right? To me, this would be like saying a wine cooler is legal, but vodka isn’t. It either all has to be legal, or none.”
Wine coolers, vodka, beer and any other alcoholic drink are comprised of the same intoxicant, ethyl alcohol. Illicit drugs, however, all operate by different chemical mechanisms and can affect a vast array of brain function and give different sensations to the user. For example, the state of euphoria (or “High”) procured from smoking THC (marijuana) is totally different from the high achieved by injecting an opiate like heroin, which is completely dissimilar to the hallucinations from LSD or psychotropic mushrooms. These drugs have distinguishable rates/qualities of dependency and much different withdrawal symptoms, also being individually associated with varied levels of crime and recreation.
I can honestly say it would be sensible to legalize marijuana, but to keep cocaine, opiates, hallucinogens, and other homemade drugs as a criminal offense. I’ve spoken my peace.
Oh my, that’s outrageous.
OMG! What kind of sick ass weirdos would sell their own child at a Wal Mart?! I hope they burn in hell!
Only at Walmart. lol
Blogged Jo
http://www.friendsrevolution.com/2010/06/babies-for-sale-at-walmart-for-2500.html
Unthinkable!
I think something should be done to deal with this issue. liked it.
Selling a baby at Walmart – absurd yet wrong! You can’t just auction some young’un for adoption!
how can people be so cruel? have our human hearts turned into stone?
Two horror stories here, parents trying to sell their baby p[lus your awareness that someone has stolen your article.
Thanks for both, we need to be aware of things happening here in our world.
I hope they found a good foster home for that baby, or another relative for them.
I say legalize everything and bring back natural selection or “survival of the fittest”.
So disgusting. I cannot believe that woman would endanger her infant and put “tainted” milk into that baby’s mouth. What is this world coming to when people just populate and don’t event think about the consequences their behaviors will have on a child who didn’t ask to be brought into this world.
Crazy. Where do you get story ideas like this? Clearly you have lots of views! I’m jealous
You will never find a pot head trying to sell their baby.
That is a pretty crazy story! The title caught my attention straight away too. Very nicely written.
I happen to agree with your stance on marijuana, though for a different reason than you have listed. Many people will argue that Marijuana is a harmless drug, and is a plant, and therefore must be healthier for you. These people believe that it is better for you than a cigarette, when in reality, smoking marijuana is much worse than smoking a cigarette, and what’s more is that a cigarette is tobacco; tobacco is also a plant grown in abundance as well. Now the people that smoke pot will argue that alcohol is a dangerous substance and it is legal, and they would be right. They question why alcohol stays legal, while marijuana is illegal. The answer to that is simple: THC stays in the body for a much longer period of time, and the user will have it in their system for weeks. Alcohol levels go down in the body as the liver processes it, and cuts it out completely.
Another thing many will argue for legalization is that they believe it is less addictive. I find this part of the argument quite hilarious. I’ve seen many people that start smoking it, saying its not addictive, and less than a month later, they are a daily user. Smoking marijuana daily doesn’t make you an addict does it? I’ve seen people not get their daily (or miss out a single time during the day) and go ballistic. My mom, dad, and both my sisters were all addicted at one time, 2 of them recovered fully(oldest sister and dad), one wasn’t so lucky(mom), and the other is struggling to break the addiction as we speak(other sister whom is also older). I will grant them that smoking cigarettes, or seeing an alcoholic miss out on the same fix will cause rage as well, but it still stands that marijuana, although used for medical purposes, should never be legalized, because in reality, the drug is much worse than alcohol or cigarettes. Who cares if it is better for you than cocaine or acid? It is still a poison to the body. Everything is nowadays. The only real good thing about weed being legalized is that pot heads would no longer have anything to complain about. Anyway, I’ve said a lot for a comment. Nice article mate
who buys a baby for twenty five bucks? i won’t even sell my puppy for twenty five bucks. =_=
the baby being for sell was not a joke.
You messed up the grammar. It should say for sale.
Nice article!
I have to agree with you that they crossed the line when they attempted to sell the child. But I have to disagree with you on your comments about Marijuana. I noticed that you said that they were arrested for being on Methamphetamine, not Marijuana, there is a difference.
Not to many people that smoke pot will attempt to sell their kids at Wal-mart. Maybe we can iron some of this stuff out if we have term limits on how long Senators can stay in office. They are voting on things that are effecting our everyday life http://newsflavor.com/opinions/stimulus-suggestions-political-views/
This woman should be placed in a mental institution if you ask me, but I don’t think that Marijuana is what cause her to attempt to sell her kid.
LOL! How cruel!
I didn’t see anything about the baby for sale at Walmart.
An interesting article, thank you. It has giving me lots to think about. Hettie
Some people are crazy and desperate animals. They’re going to do disgusting things like this whether high or sobre. Its unfair to generalise all people who smoke weed as people willing to sell babies outside wal-mart.
And whether legal or not, people will still buy it and use it. Wouldnt it make sense to legalise it so the government could control distribution and such?
This is insane. Selling a baby for $25.00? I don’t think illegal drugs should be legalized at all whatsoever. Next thing you know cocaine, heroine and the rest will too. There are some people with cancer that would benefit from marijuana, but as far as that is concerned I don’t know because I am not a medical expert. Maybe regulating marijuana for only those people who suffer from a terminal illness would be okay.
Some great points made. I don’t think everyone will ever totally agree on the subject of legalised or unlegalised drugs. I know here in the UK they are trying to get cannabis in inhalers legalised on the national health service for certain people suffering with chronic illness.
It is a good thing “Fat Bastard” wasn’t in the area, he would have taken up that deal as soon as he would have seen it.
They must have been really high and really desperate to think someone wouldn’t call the cops if they tried to sell their baby -maybe they actually wanted to give the baby a better home cos they knew they weren’t doing a good job -interesting that they approached 2 women and not an old pervert type
I only hope that the child will find a decent family to stay with, and never know what his parents have wanted to do with him. However I find it difficult to wish for him a good life when he is now under a system that has rarely brought a successful outcome. The parents were intoxicated and drug addicts, so how come they were not discovered earlier? This is obviously a problem. To think of the child’s faith if his parents were not EXIDENTLY caught in the act, is just horrific. God help him.
One can only hope that this child was removed from the home and placed in a loving home. Stumbled.
Great information to be aware of. One more thing is the story real or fake because you never know for sure sometimes all kinds of stories are made up for view and comments. Finally please if for some reason you take offense to the previous statement it is nothing personal just curiousity.
Eclectic,
No problem at all. There is a lot of fake stories on the net. For your future reference, I never write such. All of my articles are fact, reality, etc.. based. Also, my opinion pieces will always preface with “in my opinion.” Here is a news link from the HP – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/24/couple-tries-to-sell-baby_n_624990.html The story was also on FOX, MSNBC, etc..
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This article attempts to prove that drug legalization is a bad idea on the grounds that drug addiction is, of course, a bad thing. This is a nonsequitur, being based on the assumption, probably inaccurate, that drug legalization will worsen the problems for victims of drug addiction, and produce more victims. The reality is that if these drugs were legalized, their price would likely plummet and as a consequence those who are addicted will have less need to sell their babies to afford the habit. This will not solve all our problems, and there will still be crime, not to mention unfathomable suffering for a significant part of our population affected by drug addiction. However, if these drugs were prescribed as part of a drug maintenance program, something which can only happen with legalization, the damage to society would be minimized, and addicts would be put into direct contact with a medical profession ready to address their problems rather than putting them in prison, thereby causing more suffering and further entrenching their addiction.