Woman Exchanges Two Children For $175 And A Cockatoo. A Fair Trade?
Posted by: Olivia Allin
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9:00AM, Saturday October 17th 2009
Paul and Brandy Romero, a couple from Louisiana, got themselves in a bit of a pickle when they bought two children from Donna Greenwell in exchange for a cockatoo and $175. Though Donna wasn’t the children’s mother, the biological parents knew they were living with her and she claims she was just trying to find a suitable home for the unwanted kids. I guess Paul and Brandy fit the bill, since they were unable to have children but happened to be selling an exotic bird and somehow the subject of kids came up during the bird-buying transaction? Both parties were charged with two felony counts of sale of minors, which apparently only gets you a five-year prison sentence. The Romeros had their sentences suspended for testifying against Donna, who awaits her trial in November. I wish every conversation on Earth were recorded, so we could hear what really went down. Something like “Nice bird!” “Oh thanks, want some kids?” “Oh totally! That would be awesome—we’re barren.” “Super, I’ll give you two for 175 and the cockatoo.” “Word.” [AOL News]
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lostrun
wrote on October 17 2009 @ 04:44 pm: [report]
No. The woman who got the money and bird made off like a bandit.
Bratislava
wrote on October 18 2009 @ 10:16 am: [report]
$175 and a cockatoo…that’s PREPOSTEROUS! The childless couple paid too much!
CaleeKay
wrote on October 18 2009 @ 04:46 pm: [report]
Lol. kind of reminds me of my aunt and uncle. They had a Pomeranian that just got too annoying and they couldn’t take care of anymore.. and i guess they were talking to an older couple one time and all of a sudden the convo came up that the older couple were wanting a pom to keep them company cuz they were going to travel a lot.
Turns out they also had some couches they still needed to get rid of from their house, So my aunt traded the pom for a very lovely set of couches, ha.
A.J.R.
wrote on October 19 2009 @ 11:24 am: [report]
My sister offers to sell/give her kids away all the time. Her only condition is that they’re a package deal. You can’t just take the one that happens to be behaving at the moment, you have to take all three.
_jsw_
wrote on October 19 2009 @ 06:06 pm: [report]
See, the way to avoid that pesky “sale of minors” charge is to give the kids away. Had she been willing to just swap the bird for the kids, she’d have been fine. But no, she had to get greedy.
spatula
wrote on October 20 2009 @ 12:48 pm: [report]
“Paul and Brandy Romero, a couple from Louisiana, got themselves in a bit of a pickle when they bought two children from Donna Greenwell in exchange for a cockatoo and $175.” LOL
@olivia, I bet you never thought you’d be beginning an article with that (totally awesome) sentence!
ootie grl
wrote on October 21 2009 @ 02:43 pm: [report]
That lady should have tried selling the kids on ebay. lol