A Chilean teen has been arrested following the sale of her baby through social networking site Facebook.
Eighteen-year-old Veronica Carrera Chaparro discovered she was pregnant in February of last year. According to various reports, she told her 17-year-old boyfriend two months later and asked him to keep the pregnancy a secret .
Police chief Miguel Ampuero sad the teen’s boyfriend told her mother Angela, 42, and sister Daniela, 24, who gave her three options;”Sell it, abort it or give it up for adoption”.
The unborn child was advertised on Facebook and a deal was agreed with a family from Santiago, who paid Veronica 60,000 Chilean pesos, just under €82, when the child was born in November.
Chaparro, her mother and sister were arrested and charged following the sale, and all three appeared before a court in Santiago on Sunday. The judge presiding over the case, Ernesto Silva, said the matter was “very serious”, but added that it could prove to be a complex case, as under under Chilean law, it is “not a crime to offer over the delivery of a newborn over the internet, even though financial compensation is offered.”
