Woman steals baby for sale
A Polish woman who was about to buy a Romanian teenager’s six-month-old daughter snatched the infant from its mother and disappeared, police said yesterday. The 16-year-old Romanian mother, who is a Gypsy, told police that she arrived in Greece at the beginning of December in order to sell her child for -14,000. Half of the money would have gone to her cousin, a Romanian national, who set up the baby’s sale, police said. The teenager went to Omonia in central Athens on Tuesday to meet with a Polish woman who had agreed to buy the infant. Later, as the two were shopping at a nearby supermarket for food, the Polish woman snatched the infant and ran away. The mother told police that she decided to report the incident as an abduction because she had not told the child’s father that she traveled to Greece to sell their baby. The teenager had told the baby’s father that she was in Greece to beg for money, something she claims she has done repeatedly in the past.
