Mom accused of trying to sell baby

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A woman tried to sell her 3-day-old baby for $500 at a Taco Bell, according to Clark County Sheriff’s deputies.

The sheriff’s office says a woman called 911 when the 36-year-old woman tried to sell the infant to her at the restaurant Thursday night.

Deputies arrested the woman at a motel later that night.

“Baby was clean, and when she put him on the bed for a nap, he was always safely far away from the edges,” said Patricia Morris, a Kays Motel’s manager. “She seemed to be taking very good care of him and then … we were surprised.”

Morris said the woman’s father booked her a room at the motel on Wednesday.

She said he told her, “This one’s been in trouble before and claimed she was ready to go the right path and make a new life and a new start and he was trying to help.”

Oliver Morris, also a motel manager, said he spoke with the woman’s father after her arrest.

“That’s what she wanted to do, sell it and leave. Go someplace else to start over. That’s what she said,” he said. “That’s what she told her father.”

The woman faces charges of trying to sell a child, a felony.

She was booked into the Clark County Jail.

The baby was taken into protective custody.