What do you think of this news story - Woman jailed for smuggling baby?

Question

Woman jailed for smuggling baby

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7404090.stm

It's ironic that she bought a baby to get a council flat, but now is living for free in jail.

Answer 1

What would she have done with the baby, if she had got all she wanted ? Sell it on to someone else. They seem to use children on any pretext, and treat them like a pieces of meat. Get her thrown out of this Country when she comes out of jail

Answer 2

Like tto, it's the child who has my sympathy.

Answer 3

Well done to the Housing Officer at the Council.

Perhaps the government should be able to deport her instead of putting her in jail here.

Answer 4

She is a woman who was desperate and did not thing out how her all of a sudden having a new child would look

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And to expect to get special accommodations because of her rouse She was in act of

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Gives call to the thought of her potential to be a good mother to a child she paid cash for

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Makes you wonder sometimes

What has our world  come to when you read stories like this  

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Answer 5

As a Council worker I wonder how many undesirables she helped sneak into the country and fake claims! I hope they investigate everything she has done in her job.

Answer 6

should be kicked out and passport stamped, undesirable.

Answer 7

Poor child.

Answer 8

In the world that this woman lives this is not an unusual occurrence,what would be interesting would be how many times this scam as been pulled without the authorities noticing.

Answer 9

She must be mad. Looking after a child is a 24 hours a day job for the next 20 years. I wouldn't do that just to get a  council flat.