Mother makes a macabre joke: baby offered as a gift online!

Mother makes a macabre joke: baby offered as a gift online!

A frightening incident in Cuxhaven, Germany, caused a stir: a mother offered her ten-month-old baby to be given away online kosmo.at reported. She published the ad on a classifieds portal, noted the shipping costs of 6.75 euros and, when asked by the police, clarified that it was just a joke. The ad described the baby as naughty and bluntly provided the full address and family name for self-collectors. A picture of the child was also published.

The police were alerted by concerned users of the portal because they could not simply ignore this macabre joke. The youth welfare office and the police were immediately called to the family's apartment, where they found the 22-year-old mother, the 20-year-old father and the baby. The officers found that the child was doing well and the living conditions were clean, a police spokesman said. Despite the statement that there was no objective threat to the child's well-being, the youth welfare office plans to continue to monitor the family, as the joke's statement remains questionable. In the future, the ad in question will be removed from the platform in order to prevent similar incidents spiegel.de.