A young mother tried to sell her four-month-old boy on the internet for £150,000, it emerged last night.
The 20-year-old advertised the ‘beautiful’ baby for sale on the Gumtree classifieds website on Boxing Day.
Police and social services were alerted after scores of people saw the ad and dialled 999.
Officers traced the woman and took the child and his two-year-old brother into care.
Last night the single mother, who suffers from post-natal depression, said the advert was just a ‘silly joke’ that backfired.
She claimed she had been dared to post it, but had no intention of going through with the sale and has been left devastated that her two sons have been taken away.
The full-time mother from Bradford said: ‘I had been joking with my ex about selling sperm and eggs and he sort of dared me to put up a baby for sale – but I didn’t mean our children.
‘I put on Gumtree that I was selling a baby for £150,000. I just plucked that number out of thin air and I claimed I was acting as an agent for a friend.
‘It was very stupid and I shouldn’t have done it, but I didn’t think it would be taken seriously.
‘I love my boys and they make me so happy and I want them to be happy. It was just a silly, silly joke.
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