A woman has been arrested for attempting to sell her seven-year-old son to strangers in the hopes of receiving £4,000 in return.
The mother-of-three, 36, allegedly advertised her son as being up for sale in an attempt to pay off accumulated debts and met “buyers” at a shopping centre.
The 36-year-old, named only as Nargiza, has been detained under Russia’s child trafficking laws after volunteers from an anti-slavery charity responded to her advertisements.
Members of Alternativa posed as interested buyers and went to meet Nargiza, who claimed her seven-year-old son “didn’t mind” being transferred to another family for a sum of money, it was claimed.
