A Houston, Texas, woman faces court for allegedly trying to sell her newborn baby on Facebook, reports several American media.
During the month of September, Juniper Bryson allegedly posted a message on the Facebook group Birth Mothers Looking for Adoptive Parents (Birth mothers seeking adoptive parents), offering to give up her future baby for adoption. She even offered to travel to the family who would adopt the child.
At least seven people are said to have communicated in writing with the 21-year-old woman to discuss a possible adoption. However, Juniper Bryson allegedly demanded money from some of them.
“Just enough to move into an apartment so I can work and get my daughter back,” she reportedly wrote.
A couple had even left Louisiana to come and collect the child, but they turned back halfway when the accused allegedly asked him for $150, in addition to the amount he had already offered her for the child. help pay for food.
In response to the couple’s refusal, Bryson allegedly blocked the numbers of both potential adoptive parents, eventually unblocking them and writing to them: “If the baby isn’t worth $200 to you, fuck off.”
On September 24, another Houston resident, who wanted to adopt the child, arranged for an Uber to be sent to her when the young mother was about to give birth to take her to the hospital.
The baby was born a few hours later and doctors discovered the presence of drugs in his blood.
The woman who wanted to adopt the child, Wendy Williams, stayed with the mother during the eight hours of the birth. She even chose the baby’s name and stayed in the hospital for the next three days, believing she would eventually leave with the newborn.
She even signed documents allowing her and her partner to make decisions legally for the baby.
Then, the biological mother wrote on Facebook to announce that she had found a family for her child. That’s when many netizens accused Juniper Bryson of selling her baby, then asked Mme Williams how she “dared to buy this child.”
When the adoptive mother asked questions to Mme Bryson in relation to these messages, the latter demanded from the nurse that Wendy Williams be escorted out of the room.
Upset by the turn of events, the adoptive mother called youth protection, who then involved the police. Juniper Bryson was then arrested and handcuffed at the hospital, just days after giving birth.
The child was entrusted to a friend of the accused, but the biological mother still hopes to regain custody of her newborn.
