Call for harsh sentence for mum selling baby on Gumtree
KwaZulu-Natal-based children's rights group Operation Bobbi Bear hopes the courts hand down a harsh sentence to a 20-year-old woman convicted of selling her 19-month-old son for R5 000 on the Internet last year.
Zama Madlala will hear her fate in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court today.
She posted an ad on Gumtree where she pretended to be selling a baby car seat, when in fact she'd been trying to sell her son.
Operation Bobbi Bear's Erika Olivier says mothers should utilise children's homes:
"This type of thing cannot be tolerated in our community. It cannot be tolerated that you can sell your children when there are means, there are places if you are battling and cannot take care of the child to rather pass the child on," she said.
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