Mom Sells Twins For Plastic Surgery
Filed under: Weird But True
A mother in Belgium stands accused of selling her newborn twin boys to fund her liposuction surgery. The woman, Sonia Ringoir, 31, is a restaurant worker in Ghent, Belgium, and according to an interview with her current boyfriend, she did so because her estranged husband "put pressure on her to have her body rebuilt."It was that same estranged husband, Marc Poppe, who turned Ringoir in, telling undercover cops that the couple searched the Internet for ways to make money off their babies, because of course they wouldn't give them away "for nothing."
Belgium does not have a law that addresses the sale of children, and so Ringoir has been charged with "degrading treatment" of her twins. She was also charged with fraud, after a Dutch couple alleged that she falsely offered to be a surrogate mother for them. She is facing a sentence of 30 days to five years if she is convicted.
Ringoir has five other kids ranging in age from 3 to 13, from two different fathers, and has been released pending the results of a police investigation. She claims she gave the babies to a friend "for free" out of the goodness of her heart, when learning of her pal's infertility.
The kicker? Ringor didn't even have the lipo. Instead, she opted for gastric-band surgery to "reduce" her appetite.
I'm not a proponent of forced sterilization, but for goodness sake, if ever there was a candidate for that punishment, this is the woman. And Belgium? You might want to consider the fact that selling your babies should be against the law.
| The mother - she sold the babies! | |
|---|---|
| The father - clearly he pressured her to do it. | |
| Society - there's so much pressure on women to look good. | |
| The government - why isn't it illegal to SELL a baby in Belgium?!? |












ReaderComments (Page 2 of 2)
12-15-2008 @ 4:46PM
Tina said...THIS HEARTLESS WOMAN SHOULD NOT BE A MOTHER!
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12-15-2008 @ 4:50PM
Teresa said...Wow, those people are selfish.
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12-15-2008 @ 5:14PM
Annie said...as a woman could never conceive, and at 51 is both happy and sad at the fact that she never had children, I say why not??? everyfrigginthingelse is for sale.....you gotta do what you gotta do...kids are NOT the end-all be-all of life. There's too many people in this world now.......,
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12-15-2008 @ 6:16PM
Abigal said...what is this world coming to?
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12-15-2008 @ 5:31PM
Annie said...and how many of you moms out there never dreamed of what life would have been like if you never had children?????
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12-15-2008 @ 5:58PM
Shelly said...Thinking about life before children is not unrealistic. It's why parents experience empty nest syndrome when they grow up and lead their own lives (hopefully), but to go to that extreme? It doesn't even beg the question, "What if......." That's just ill conceived and little forethought to even consider defending.
12-15-2008 @ 5:41PM
Jaxnicole77 said...And what about the "estranged husband"? Although he was the one who turned her in, it clearly states that "the couple searched the internet for ways to make money off the babies". Isn't he just as guilty? Shouldn't he be charged with degrading treatment, also?
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12-15-2008 @ 5:49PM
Anne said...Wow, that sounds like something my sister would do. Her daughter needed a car to get to school on other places...but, my sister being the greedy one decided to spend $4-$5000.00 on herself (breast implants) instead of helping her own daughter. The love of money is the root of all evil. It's pretty bad when all you can think of is yourself before you do your own flesh & blood.
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12-15-2008 @ 5:55PM
Elizabeth Jetter said...Everybody is allowed to make money off babies except the mother Men can sell their sperm, adoption agencies can charge, lawyers can charge, doctors can charge, but for a woman to actually make any money from these babies, she is vilified.
I remember a case, I think it was Texas, where a young woman pushed her car, with her two little boys in it, into a river to drown them because her boyfriend did not want to marry her because she had children. She concocted a story of how her car was hijacked by some black men and that she hadn't seen them or her car or her kids since. So pressure from men is high on the list of why women do most anything. Until women can raise children,economically, without a man we will probably get more of these kinds of stories.
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12-15-2008 @ 11:00PM
Miranda said...eh....I really don't think you need a man to be a parent.....I'm a single mother of two, and have never once thought about selling or killing my children due to economical reasons......I'm going to guess you don't have any children
12-15-2008 @ 6:02PM
Dawn said...all of them should not have those children, twins and all.
The people who got the twins should of went through the system and would of probably got to keep them, and none of this would off happened.there has been a few people i have heard of adopting there children to friends and it went rather smooth. but when you insert greed, and vanity into the situation it was only going to end up bad . i hope the children end up w/ people who will take good care of them and not sell them at the drop of a hat. i have a close friend who's mom use to sell to her to guys for money at a very young age ,it scared her mentally . "you get my point" the babies are better off without there birthmother and those involved .
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12-15-2008 @ 6:47PM
jmflannery1 said...LOL HILARIOUS
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12-15-2008 @ 6:54PM
em said...i see no difference in giving them up for adoption! same thing. i also don't understand why porn is legal and prositution is not! so if u film it it's ok? so if u give ur babies up for free(adoption) it's ok??
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12-15-2008 @ 7:33PM
ejhm683248 said...I though selling your children was slavery! I understand that is still against the law!
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12-15-2008 @ 7:25PM
steponme77 said...The woman already had five children,maybe she felt like it was more like an adoption,and they may have really needed the money and she knew they were going to a good home.And the husband probably did put alot of pressure on her to loose weight.She probably started having kids at a young age,instead of getting an education and depended on the husband to take care of her because you no what being young and in love feels like.So with no education,no place to go with all those children,no money,she probably cannot get a job due to the cost of child care.She did not have many options.So she just put them in the hands of some good friends and thought, well they can pay for my lipo since I have gave them so much more.And husbands want you to do everything cook,clean,care for children,etc...and then they want you to be some sort of sex godess and a whore in the bedroom,.They expect to much of women.So I actually feel sorry for her.Poor lady.Its all the husbands fault.
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12-15-2008 @ 7:54PM
djs said...as the mother of twin boys (now grown) and the grandmother of twins(my son had twins) she has no idea of the joy they could bring.. i pray that someone got them that will love and care for them..this man and woman needs killing.....or at least be fixed so neither can never have anymore.................djs
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12-15-2008 @ 9:31PM
E.L. Kuwanoe said...Hey #44 Do you understand what you read? Just in case, let me make it clear...this was not in the US. It happened in Europe, Belgium to be exact. PLease go take a remedial reading class so you understand what you read. Thanks..
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12-15-2008 @ 10:29PM
Hero and Jimmy said...I would have sold them for a new Ipod. Why not?
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12-16-2008 @ 1:07AM
Alise said...Well to add my own opinion. Firstly, when you get married you commit and love eachother for better or for worse, and love includes you don't care what they look like. And for another reason, she's 31, go run around the neigborhood or whatever they have in belgim, it's rediculous that the first thing she and many other women is plastic surgery. Secondly, like the first reason, when you know your pregnate, you have a choice, to keep or not to keep, obviesly she choose to keep, maybe she had a thing against abortion, but she would of easily done adoption when they were born. and in conclusion to tie this all up. When you get married and commit to children there should be a lot of love in both situations, and love doesn't care how fat you are or how ugly you are. is called 'unconditional love' and to sell newborns? come on what was she thinking!?
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12-16-2008 @ 3:52AM
Hitchhiker said...But though even words like “juju-flop,” “swut,” and “turlingdrome” are now perfectly acceptable in common usage, there is one word that is still beyond the pale. The concept it embodies is so revolting that the publication or broadcast of the word is utterly forbidden in all parts of the galaxy except one - where they don’t know what it means. That word is “Belgium”
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