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I just simply don't understand.. They trade them like they're nothing...
hvc801
Member Posts: 987
I was just reading this short article on CNN.com, you can find it here.
(CNN) -- Trading two children for a bird landed three people in jail in Louisiana, authorities say.
The biological mother, who was not involved in the alleged trade, is to be interviewed by authorities Friday. Investigators seek further details about a case that they say unfolded this way:
Paul and Brandy Romero advertised that they were selling their pet cockatoo for $1,500.
A woman named Donna Greenwell responded and said she wanted to buy the bird. Greenwell then told the Romeros that she was taking care of three children whose biological parents were going through a separation.
Greenwell proposed selling two of the couple's children to the Romeros for $2,000, saying that her job as a truck driver made it hard to take care of the children, said Capt. Keith Dupre of the Evangeline Parrish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana.
The parties allegedly negotiated a trade involving the two kids, the bird and $175.
An anonymous tipster contacted authorities after the children began living with the Romeros.
As a result, Greenwell and the Romeros were arrested February 21 and charged with aggravated kidnapping, Dupre said.
The children were well taken care of when they were with the Romeros, who badly wanted children, according to Dupre.
Greenwell said she needed the cash for a lawyer to handle adoption paperwork, authorities said.
She had placed the third child with another Louisiana couple, Dupre said, but he didn't know whether bartering was involved.
The two children were ages 4 and 5, according to CNN affiliate WGNO.
Police did not identify the biological parents, and no other information was available. The children have been placed in foster care.
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What if Paul Revere was like the boy who cried wolf....?
Originally posted by Hazmal
What does he say when people ask what he did? "My mommy was irking me yo - I wanted to keep pwning nubs on my xbox, so I roughed her up with a hardshell. That is just how I roll."
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You're title is misleading.
Paul and Brandy Romero bought 2 children for 2000 dollars.
Donna Greenwell sold them for 2000 dollars.
Everybody wins as far as I can see unless Paul and Brandy were bad parents and that will be hard to prove if their original parents thought the children would be better off living with a woman that would sell them for cash.
So Paul and Brandy go to jail and the kids go into yet another home, which may not be better than the home of Paul and Brandy, which was better than the home of Donna Greenwell, which in turn was better than the home of the kids original parents.
Is the home of Paul and Brandy > the foster home?
"The liberties and resulting economic prosperity that YOU take for granted were granted by those "dead guys"
Considering that children in foster homes are likely to end up as pesticide test subjects for a chemical company, they're probably better off being sold to a Saudi price to be used sex slaves.
This is very common in other parts of the world. In China theres a whole industry around selling children which can't be taken care of.
"If you can't out wit them, report them till they're banned!"- PopinJ'
Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins.
Thank you Draenor. ... You cant put a price tag on your kids... In this situation they werent even her own kids lmao.
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What if Paul Revere was like the boy who cried wolf....?
Originally posted by Hazmal
What does he say when people ask what he did? "My mommy was irking me yo - I wanted to keep pwning nubs on my xbox, so I roughed her up with a hardshell. That is just how I roll."
As opposed to their previous value of less than zero? Are you aware some higher offer? Life is cheap. Harsh but true.
"If you can't out wit them, report them till they're banned!"- PopinJ'
As opposed to their previous value of less than zero? Are you aware some higher offer? Life is cheap. Harsh but true.
Show me where I said that their previous situation was a good one...It was stated that this is a win-win situation, and I believe that to truly believe that requires a degree of callousness that I hope I never experience.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins.
I guess you're assuming that Paul and Brandy were willing to resell those children for $2000?
Ever stop to think that perhaps the resale value of those children was pricele$$?
If you bought a (insert priceless item here) in a flea market for 1 dollar do you think you would still value that (insert priceless item here) at 1 dollar and treat it like it had a value of 1 dollar?
"The liberties and resulting economic prosperity that YOU take for granted were granted by those "dead guys"
I agree with the Verry cute Icon.
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude; greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins.
I guess you're assuming that Paul and Brandy were willing to resell those children for $2000?
Ever stop to think that perhaps the resale value of those children was pricele$$?
If you bought a (insert priceless item here) in a flea market for 1 dollar do you think you would still value that (insert priceless item here) at 1 dollar and treat it like it had a value of 1 dollar?
umm...what?
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins.
I guess you're assuming that Paul and Brandy were willing to resell those children for $2000?
Ever stop to think that perhaps the resale value of those children was pricele$$?
If you bought a (insert priceless item here) in a flea market for 1 dollar do you think you would still value that (insert priceless item here) at 1 dollar and treat it like it had a value of 1 dollar?
umm...what?
Donna Greenwell placed the value of those children at 2000 dollars. The buyers purchased the children at 2000 dollars but it's unclear what value they placed on the children after the sale was made. I'm willing to wager the buyers increased the value of those children to priceless.
Just because the children were bought for 2000 dollars it doesn't mean that their current value is still 2000 dollars.
So when you made this comment "Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins."
I had to point out that we don't know what value the buyers placed them at after the sale.
"The liberties and resulting economic prosperity that YOU take for granted were granted by those "dead guys"
Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins.
I guess you're assuming that Paul and Brandy were willing to resell those children for $2000?
Ever stop to think that perhaps the resale value of those children was pricele$$?
If you bought a (insert priceless item here) in a flea market for 1 dollar do you think you would still value that (insert priceless item here) at 1 dollar and treat it like it had a value of 1 dollar?
umm...what?
Donna Greenwell placed the value of those children at 2000 dollars. The buyers purchased the children at 2000 dollars but it's unclear what value they placed on the children after the sale was made. I'm willing to wager the buyers increased the value of those children to priceless.
Just because the children were bought for 2000 dollars it doesn't mean that their current value is still 2000 dollars.
So when you made this comment "Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins."
I had to point out that we don't know what value the buyers placed them at after the sale.
Right... because you cant put a price tag on a childs life........ Why would you even think about purchaseing children!? if anything, call up child services and make something up, and then adopt them... You dont need to buy them. Besides.. this was a trade agreement for a fucking bird..... A FUCKING BIRD.
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What if Paul Revere was like the boy who cried wolf....?
Originally posted by Hazmal
What does he say when people ask what he did? "My mommy was irking me yo - I wanted to keep pwning nubs on my xbox, so I roughed her up with a hardshell. That is just how I roll."
Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins.
I guess you're assuming that Paul and Brandy were willing to resell those children for $2000?
Ever stop to think that perhaps the resale value of those children was pricele$$?
If you bought a (insert priceless item here) in a flea market for 1 dollar do you think you would still value that (insert priceless item here) at 1 dollar and treat it like it had a value of 1 dollar?
umm...what?
Donna Greenwell placed the value of those children at 2000 dollars. The buyers purchased the children at 2000 dollars but it's unclear what value they placed on the children after the sale was made. I'm willing to wager the buyers increased the value of those children to priceless.
Just because the children were bought for 2000 dollars it doesn't mean that their current value is still 2000 dollars.
So when you made this comment "Yeah, two kids being told that the value of their collective lives is equal to two thousand dollars...everyone wins."
I had to point out that we don't know what value the buyers placed them at after the sale.
Right... because you cant put a price tag on a childs life........ Why would you even think about purchaseing children!? if anything, call up child services and make something up, and then adopt them... You dont need to buy them. Besides.. this was a trade agreement for a fucking bird..... A FUCKING BIRD.
Look into what it takes to adopt kids and you'll see why for 2000 dollars a couple would jump at the chance.
These people are not the souless monsters we'd like to think they are. How could anybody that wants to be a parent be a souless monster?
Western couples buy kids in foreign countries all the time - tell them that they don't love their kids as much as you love yours and see how they react.
"The liberties and resulting economic prosperity that YOU take for granted were granted by those "dead guys"
Question, isn't there a diffrence between adopting a child and fostering a child. One of the two you actually have to pay for right? Anyway concerning the topic, I don't know whats wrong with them. I don't think you can put a price on the head of a child like some kind of rare dog or something.
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