This is the last lesson about how to make money on the Internet, and certainly the craziest one. Lesson Number 10 : How a Belgian surrogate mother sold her baby to a Dutch couple :
Everything began in April 2004 when An Blomme, a young Flemish woman, makes a contact with Bart Philtjens and Geertrui Praet, a broody homosexual couple. She proposes to be a surrogate mother for them in exchange for €8 000. In June, after an artificial insemination of Bart's sperm, she is pregnant. Until the 7th month, everything is ok but suddenly, in December, the homosexual couple receives a letter saying that the surrogate mother has lost the child because of too much stress... Actually, An Blomme, who wanted to make more money, offered to sell her baby to the highest bidder ! It is another Dutch couple who "won", Wim and Nathalie Janssen, for €15 000.
When traffic of human bodies is allowed :
Later, the first couple learnt the lye and appealed to Justice who gave reason to... the highest bidder ! The Utrecht court thought that the little Donna (name given by the biological father and his partner...) needed her adoptive parents because she had only known them. Moreover, she was well-treated...
In France, to be a surrogate mother is forbidden by the law. In Belgium, it is allowed, but no law supervises this status. Nevertheless, this terrible story opened the debate...
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