Mother offers to sell child on Facebook after doctors refuse to abort baby
- 15 May 2023
Gulf Today Report
The Egyptian authorities have taken the wife and husband into custody after they were trying to sell their daughter on Facebook.
The mother confessed to the details of what prompted her to take the step.
The incident has shocked the Egyptian community.
She said before the court, that she and her husband agreed to offer the infant, who did not complete the two days, for sale for 150,000 Egyptian pounds, due to their financial conditions, as she works in cleaning houses and does not have a fixed income.
The woman said, "They refused to abort me."
She also explained that she has 3 children, and gets about 800 Egyptian pounds a month from her work, but it is an unstable income.
She confirmed that she suffers from a difficult financial condition, explaining that her husband's income does not exceed 2,500 Egyptian pounds.
She pointed out that she did not obtain any education during her life, noting that her eldest daughter is 20 years old, and she has a 17-year-old son, while the youngest is 11 years old, explaining that they all don’t get education.
As for the infant, she indicated that she did not intend to have children again, explaining that she had tried to have an abortion, but the doctors refused.
She announced that she would raise her with the rest of her siblings.
She also stressed that she rejected the idea of selling, but her husband assured her that the family would not be able to bear the burden of expenses, and that the little girl would be in a better condition.
It is noteworthy that investigations into the case of selling a child on Facebook, which bore No. 12061 of 2023, are still ongoing.
It turned out that a person and his wife were trying to sell their newborn daughter, who was only two days old, on a page of the social networking site on Facebook, for 150,000 Egyptian pounds, in an incident that sparked widespread anger.
The investigation authorities summoned the accused mother, while the Cairo Criminal Court decided to postpone the trial of the father and mother, on charges of human trafficking, to the May 20 session.