The unnamed woman is accused of being willing to sell the child just five days after birth (Image: @ mvd_dagestan / Newsflash)
Police have arrested a mother accused of selling her newborn son for £ 3,000 to pay for a nose operation.
The unnamed woman from Dagestan in southern Russia is said to have told a friend she did not want to stay with the baby.
He then arranged for a couple to buy the child just five days after he was born on April 25, according to prosecutors.
Police say the 33-year-old mother handed over her son to the couple for a deposit of just 20,000 RUB (£ 274).
But the baby needed hospital treatment and doctors asked the couple who bought him their birth certificate, according to authorities.
The couple then asked the woman for the document, which she gave them in exchange for RUB 100,000 (£ 1,370) on May 26, police added.
Incredibly, the woman told the couple she intended to spend the money on a cosmetic nose operation, she alleges.
The woman who allegedly bought the baby (Image: @ mvd_dagestan / Newsflash)
But before the couple could hand over the rest of the total fee of RUB-200,000 £ 2,730, police arrested the group for human trafficking offenses.
In a statement, investigators said a criminal case had been opened against a 33-year-old resident of the city of Kaspiysk.
It is believed that the husband and his wife were encouraged by a neighbor to take the child after learning of the mother’s situation, MailOnline reports.
“I befriended her and suggested she give the child to a family that could no longer have children,” the neighbor told police.
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