Woman uses baby for down payment on car

by Jonathon Morgan (Subscribe to Jonathon Morgan's posts) Feb 28th 2007 11:02AM

Categories: Newborns, Just For Moms, Babies

Here's a warning for all of us: use your baby as down payment, get arrested.

That's what happened to Nicole Uribe, a 23-year-old "mother" who traded her infant son in exchange for a Dodge Intrepid and some extra cash. The recipients of said baby, Jose-Juan Lerman and his wife Irene, have also been arrested -- all on suspicion of felony trafficking in children.

Police Sgt. Brett Wilson said she couldn't speculate on the motives for the exchange -- presumably because the car was a Dodge Intrepid, and not something a little nicer.

The baby is now in foster care (thank goodness).

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Hunyi 2-28-2007 @ 11:29PM

Perhaps the mother knows she cannot provide for this baby. Perhaps the other parents really wanted one. In this scenario, the baby is going from a place where his care may be wanting to a place where he will be wanted and hopefully cherished. Maybe, it's not a bad thing.