Mother sells baby for 40,000 FCFA

The mother of seven children with seven different fathers explains that her intention was to give out the baby to a person who would afford to cater for it and give it a better future

Eyinga Carine maintains and appears so certain that she has not done anything wrong with her newborn baby. But, that she sold the two-day-old kid is causing a huge stir than she is aware. What is even more shocking is that she sold it at only 40,000 FCFA.
She told police that her intention was to guarantee the innocent baby a better future. According to her, she only gave out the baby to someone who could better cater for it since she could not afford even the basic needs for the seven children that she now has with seven different fathers.
But the police have insisted that such an act cannot be justified easily.
Meantime, the matter has been moved from the local police station where she was arrested alongside her “customer” to the Yaounde Court of First Instance for legal proceedings.
A local newspaper, Météo Hébdo reported that the baby was discovered with one Micheline Domoué still at the Mimboman quarter after the mother's arrest. The report says the baby had cried for so long when Domoué’s neighbour named only as Olga decided to knock her door and verify what was happening to the baby, but Domoué would not open her door when she alerted other neighbours. Now faced with mounting pressure from the increasingly anxious neighbours outside her door, Domoué decided to open the door.
According to the report Domoué had insisted that the baby belonged to her until the quarter head of Mimboman called the police who interrogated her to admit that she bought the baby at 40,000 FCFA from Eyinga Carine.
As legal proceedings continued it was not yet clear why the 37-year-old-woman decided to buy a child when she already had two children of her own.