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Texas Woman Offers Walmart Shopper $500K To Buy Her Toddler
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By Megan VerHelst,Patch Staff
CROCKETT, TX — A Texas woman was arrested recently after police said she approached another woman in a Walmart store and offered her hundreds of thou- sands of dollars to buy her 1-year- old child, accord- ing to reports.
Rebecca L. Taylor, 49, was arrested last week and charged with sale or purchase of a child, a third- degree felony, according to a report by NBC News. The charge was filed after Taylor approached a mother and her two young chil- dren in the store's self-checkout
lanes and offered the other woman money to "pur- chase" her 1- year-old, authori- ties said.
Taylor noted the child's blond hair
and blue eyes, and asked "how much she could purchase him for," according to an affidavit obtained by NBC News. Taylor then told the mother she
had $250,000 in her car and that "he was the per- fect fit and she had been wanting to buy a baby for a long time now," the affidavit said.
Taylor reportedly was with a sec- ond woman, according to NBC affiliate KETK. The mother wait- ed for the two women to leave Walmart before
heading to her car. Taylor found her in the parking lot, however, according to KETK, and began screaming at the mother, "saying if she wouldn't take $250,000 for him, then she would give her $500,000 because she wanted him and she was going to take him."
Police told NBC News that surveil- lance footage from the store matched the mother's story. Taylor was arrest- ed and taken to Houston County Jail.
If convicted, Taylor could face a minimum of two years in jail and a maximum of 10 years, as well as a $10,000 penalty
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