Rebecca Taylor allegedly commented on the young boy’s blonde hair and blue eyes and asked his mother “how much she could purchase him for”, according to an affidavit obtained by NBC News.
She allegedly told the mother who was waiting with her baby and infant son that she liked the boy’s “blonde hair and blue eyes” and inquired how much she could buy him
When you get to the checkout in a supermarket, there are often little stalls by the tills where you can buy all sorts of things like chewing gum or individual chocolate bars.
What isn’t available to buy at the checkout, or indeed anywhere else in a supermarket, is somebody else’s child, because buying human beings is illegal.
However, that’s exactly what a woman in Texas allegedly attempted to do when she got to a Walmart checkout and decided she’d like to take someone else’s child with her.
Local news outlet KSAT reports that 49-year-old Rebecca Taylor allegedly approached the woman as she queued for the checkout and started making comments about one of the children she had in her trolley.
She then allegedly asked whether she could buy him off the woman for a price of $250,000, an offer which was immediately rebuffed for the obvious reason that mothers don’t tend to sell their kids, and especially not while they’re in the queue for the checkout.
An undeterred Taylor then doubled her offer to $500,000, somewhat failing to grasp that when a stranger comes up to you in a supermarket and asks to buy your child off you, the sticking point is not the price.
Harris County Sheriff’s Office said that Taylor then threatened to take the child anyway, but his mother managed to get out of the Walmart safely before alerting the authorities, who arrived and arrested Taylor.
The 49-year-old was charged with the sale or purchase of a child, which in Texas is a third-degree felony. She was released from jail pending trial after posting a bail of $50,000.
If convicted, WFTV reports that Taylor faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Source: unilad.co
