Strasbourg, France (Le Temps, Fre) – A couple, both 21 years old, have been given suspended one-year sentences for a fraud that involved trying to sell to a Belgian couple what they claimed was their unborn child – and later the woman’s eggs, when it turned out she was not pregnant.
The young couple who already had three children, were heavily in debt and the transaction was settled on for €15,000, reports Le Temps, 6,000 of which was paid. The young woman later became pregnant.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 18 February 2009 at 11:16 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 18 February 2009.
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Tags: baby, Belgian couple, France, fraud, Strasbourg
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