Voice 9, Odisha Desk: In the Balasore district of Odisha,
residents said on Thursday that a couple who had been struck by great poverty
had reportedly sold their baby child to another person for Rs 10,000.
Manoj Das and Sushama Das, of Taladi the
village inside the Bhograi police boundaries in the district, have been
identified as the pair. On Monday, July 31, Sushama gave birth to a daughter at
the Jaleswarpur Community Health Center, according to reports. The infant was
allegedly then sold by the parents to a Sambalpur district resident.
Speaking to media persons, the couple said they
gifted their infant to another person as they found difficulties to bring up
the child due to their financial crisis. The baby was their second child, the
couple added. The parents said that the infant was their second kid. A
four-and-a-half-year-old child lives with the couple.
