A Houston woman has been charged with trying to sell her newborn son.
The woman held a kind of auction to find the buyer who would offer the best price.
She asked her relative to help find adoptive parents, FOX 26 Houston reports.
A relative published a post on social media, where she wrote that the expectant mother was looking for people willing to take the child immediately after birth.
Later, a relative learned that the young mother planned to get money for selling the baby.
In this way, she wanted to solve her housing issues and deal with her debts.
There was a woman in the hospital who was going to adopt a child. But the American woman decided to continue the search, hoping to sell the child for a high price.
The announcement of the baby attracted the attention of the police. After the birth, the woman was arrested.
Now the 21-year-old American woman faces a prison sentence for trying to sell her newborn baby.
