2JUNKIE MUM SELLS BABY TO NEWS OF THE WORLD"

[JanH]

Headline says it all really. Story .

Quote from stepfather - "She's at that age where in a couple of weeks she'll forget everything when she's with new people. It's when they're four or five they start remembering.

"She's got clothes, a pair of shoes and a potty," he added, as if throwing in a few extras on a car deal.

its the drugs talking is it not? thats a problem that government has to deal with at its level. that nneds more education support and treatment facilities at our level. the likley hood is that they will not get very long inside if anything for this. they may end up with more fines - helping not at all. and she can always have more children to live in the horrible unloving envirnment such as this child did.

Bless her

The part about doggo being her only friend

For F**ks sake.

Unreal, I'm lost for words.

I can't quite believe that I'm going to be the most sympathetic person on Mumsnet, but doesn't that woman need help? Of course I feel desperatley sorry for the baby, and think the "stepfather" is a piece of shit, but what kind of childhood had the mother had to end up with a baby at 15, a drug habit at 18 and no family support? Whilst the child needs to be removed, I hope the mother gets some sort of help as well as punishment, otherwise she may just end of having and selling another baby in few years time.

hear, hear, Prufrock.

It is a horrible story, but there is obviously something very wrong with this woman. She obviously cared to some degree because the child was clothed and fed. I wonder how many embellishments the NOW have made?

I read this yesterday at my parents. It's awful I suspect the baby may have been dressed and cleaned to ensure a "good sale" So so sad. Let's hope the girl is soon being looked after and cared for by people who will love her.

it is a sad and horrible story but of course the NOTW is partly responsible as they set out to entrap the parents in order to get the story they wanted.Not sure who is worse really - the pathetic junkie parents or the calculating hacks who create this stuff.Let's not pretend the NOTW is an organisation dedicated to helping neglected children - it is a vile lying rag which has exploited both those parents and their child.GRRRR!

I am sorry Prufrock, but I just cannot bring myself to feel any sympathy for the mother or father whatsoever.

I don't know what their lives or upbringings may have been, and I don't know how far the NOTW embellished and manipulated....... YOU DO NOT SELL A BABY like a piece of meat. Full Stop. No punishment is good enough for people who can treat an innocent baby like that, and there are no excuses at all.

Best outcome really, imagine if such people had kept her ffs
And fwiw ( criticising) the NOTW (whom I personally detest)make it seem that to get a decent story they have manipulated a situation, which should have been referred to the proper authorities rather than emblazoned over a tatty red topped tab rag like that to sell copy
Is this how we value innocent children?
The parents can rot in hell, but hopefully this story will force them to seek help and recovery, for when that darling child is growing up, what are her questions going to be and who, who is going to tell her the truth about it.
Sickening abuse of so called journalism, but also a telling tale of modern life in some areas.

I too can feel no sympathy, I was abandoned at 4 with my 2 sisters, and have led the most awful life, and even though it's a struggle raising 3 kids i just couldn't do it. Not even for drugs. And believe me that is a road I ex[erienced briefly and never will again. Why should I give my children the same emotional problems that I have because of my past. No we are the generation who are supposed to break the circle. Not hand over a baby from our body for cash for drugs. It's disgusting

BUt if that little girl grew up in 13 years time to have a baby of her own, and if in another 3 years she was a drug addict, bring manipulated by a drug addict boyfriend to whom her child was an inconvienience, would you all still be as judgemental?

I'm not for one second condoning what this woman has done, but I think there has to have been some serious problems in her own life to turn her into such a callous person. I mean, if she was your daughter, and this baby as your grandaughter, would you ever lose contact to the degree that your grandchild was able to be sold?

I totally admire anyone who is able to "break the cycle" of horrific family circumstances, but to do that, most people need a hell of a lot of help and support.

Doesn't look like that was forthcoming here. Of course that young woman needs help. She's eighteen. Six months ago, she would have been covered by the Children's Act herself.

I hope they all get the help they need.

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I read the same story in the Guardian, which was pretty similar without the emotional language IYKWIM, interestingly.

I think you're right, Prufrock.