An 18-year-old girl from Chile was arrested alongside her mother and sister after selling her unborn child on Facebook for about $112, according to the New York Daily News.
Veronica Carrera Chaparro was arrested on Sunday with her mother Angela Chaparro, 42, and her sister Daniela Perez, 24, in Maipu, Chile over the attempted selling of her child to couple from a nearby city named Concepcion, according to the Daily News.
Though the three women were arrested, the selling of a child through the internet is not illegal in Chile due to loopholes in the law, the Daily News reported.
Authorities stated Chaparro found out about her pregnancy last year in February, the Daily News reported. She told her then 17-year-old boyfriend and asked him to keep it a secret.
Chaparro's boyfriend eventually told her family, the Daily News reported. This is when Chaparro says her mother Angela gave her three options: "sell it, abort it or give it up for adoption."
Maipu Police Chief Miguel Ampuero said the teen took to Facebook and advertised the child for 60,000 pesos, or $111, the Daily News reported.
According to the Chilean newspaper Cooperative, a couple from the town of Concepcion initially reached out to Carrera and arranged the deal to pay her after the child was born, the Daily News reported.
The deal never happened because the day the child was born, Nov. 4, another family from Santiago got in touch with her and offered to pay the registration fees of about 1,008,562 pesos, or $1,864, needed in order to claim the child, plus the $112 Chaparro initially asked for, according to the Daily News.
The three women are set to appear in court on Sunday, but prosecutor Ernesto Silva said though the case is "very serious" it also is not illegal because Chilean law does not make it "a crime to offer the delivery of a newborn over the Internet, even though financial compensation is offered," the Daily News reported.
The exact charges against the three were unclear, but the Chilean newspaper Cooperativa said the Santiago family who bought the child would also appear in court, the Daily News reported.
