Sitter Gets $2,000 an Hour--by Selling the Baby
<i> Reuters</i>
HAMBURG, Germany —
A baby-sitter in Hamburg thought of a novel way of earning extra cash--she sold a child while its parents were out.
Police said she got $2,090 for the 4-month-old Albanian baby.
They said the baby was recovered unharmed Wednesday, eight hours after the 35-year-old baby-sitter reported it had been kidnaped from the hotel room where she was watching it.
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