What country did she immigrate in from?
Heartbreaking longtime criminal trend in Haiti and the Dominican Republic (now add our border crossers) is child trafficking.
From an old story in The Guardian.
On market day in Dajabón, a bustling Dominican town on the Haitian border, you can pick up many bargains if you know where to look. You can haggle the price of a live chicken down to 40 pesos (72p); wrestle 10lb of macaroni from 60 to 50 pesos; and, with some discreet inquiries, buy a Haitian child for the equivalent of £54.22.
“You just ask around town,” says Hilda Pe-a, who monitors border crossings for the Jesuit Refugee Service. “People know who the scouts are. You just tell them what kind of child you are looking for and they can bring across whatever it is that you want.”
There is a thriving trade in Haitian children in the Dominican Republic, where they are mostly used for domestic service, agricultural work or prostitution. Eight-year-old Jesus Josef was one of them. Numbed by a mixture of trauma and shyness, this small boy with huge eyes cannot recall how he left his three brothers and mother in Haiti and ended up doing domestic work for a Dominican family in Barahona, 120 miles from the capital, Santo Domingo.
Looks like she was trying to look like Anri du Toit of the.. band “Die Antwoord”.
And failed.
The real problem with this story is that the H&R Block should have called the Law for a welfare check on this woman with the baby long before they did.
The worker tested the situation. Tried to lead, got personally involved. Right or wrong. Personal attention might have caused a change.
Automatic government involvement should not always be the first call. It was a judgement, the worker made a judgment call and DIDN’T WALK AWAY AND IGNORE THE SITUATION.
Taxes will do that to you.
If it was her daughter, this woman is at the end her rope and needs to be in prison for her own good.
“Florida woman, 33, is arrested for loitering round H&R Block trying to sell her daughter to a stranger for $500”
Not a bad deal, pay $500 for the kid, but get an IMMEDIATE Child Tax Credit of $2000. On top of that, you can H&R Block help you use the deduction.
In Palatka, of all places. Not that it’s a place of high living, but hell, don’t people have standards anymore? Any standards? Must we devolve to the lowest among us? No raising of standards? Ever?
That’s one ugly ass woman...can’t imagine anyone breeding with that.
Kill her, take the baby and try to raise it right. Maybe it will become someone. Meanwhile, the POS mother is useless to anyone. A drain on society. She needs to be exterminated and buried. The faster the better.