Parents sell their Children for Rs 35,000/-
Pussellawa Police arrested four persons, including three females, over an incident where a three-day-old infant was sold for a sum of Rs 35,000.
The arrested persons include the newborn baby’s parents, the woman who purchased the infant and another woman who mediated the transaction, police said.
The mother, a resident of Labukele in Nuwara Eliya, had given birth to the baby at the Wahugapitiya Hospital in Pussellawa on March 15.
Police investigations had revealed that three days later the
infant was sold to a 53-year-old woman from Nainamaduwa, Negombo through a broker.
The arrested suspects are to be produced at the Gampola Magistrate’s Court.
