A mother accused of selling her newborn son for £3,000 to pay for a nose job has been arrested by police.
The unnamed woman, from Dagestan, southern Russiaallegedly told a friend she didn’t want to keep the baby.
She then arranged for a couple to buy the child just five days after he was born on April 25, prosecutors said.
Police say the 33-year-old mother handed over her son to the couple for a deposit of just RUB 20,000 (£274).
But the baby had to be treated in hospital and medics asked the couple who bought him for his birth certificate, authorities say.
The couple then asked the woman for the document, which she gave them on May 26 in exchange for another RUB 100,000 (£1,370), police added.
Incredibly, the woman told the couple she planned to spend the money on cosmetic surgery on her nose, it is alleged.
But before the couple could hand over the rest of the total RUB-200,000 £2,730, the police arrested the group for human trafficking.
In a statement, investigators said a criminal case had been launched against a 33-year-old resident of the city of Kaspiysk.
The man and his wife are said to have been encouraged by a neighbor to take the child after learning of the mother’s situation, MailOnline reports.
“I befriended her and suggested that she give the child to a family that could no longer have children,” the neighbor told police.
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