India mother arrested for 'selling 11-year-old daughter for $12,000'
Source: BBC
A mother in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan has been arrested for allegedly selling her daughter for 650,000 rupees ($12,000; £7,611).
The mother said she sold the girl to raise money to repay a fine of 450,000 rupees ($8,383; £5,317) imposed on her by the village council, police said.
Police have arrested a man and a woman who allegedly bought the girl.
Desperation and poverty often drive people in India to sell their children and many girls are also trafficked.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-21191819
In the same nation of a gang rape and a sea of misogyny even among mothers. What kind of loving parent would sell a child? But culturally you've gotta wonder: how often do poor parents in India (fathers OR mothers) sell their SONS?
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outside of the tragedy of the situation , is the size of the fine referred to. Seems a very high figure for India given that for
2011 their average wage seems to have been $1,410 p.a 
Why must a women have to give birth to a child she does not want?
It led to the abortion issue. I told the angry Monsignor I could not understand why a woman would have to have a child she did not want only to end up either selling the child or mutilating the child to make it "a good beggar". This was c. 1970 or so.
Needless to say, the Monsignor had few words for me except babbling off a few "Shame on you!" remarks towards me which led to yet another argument w/him. It was at that point in my young life that I more or less dumped the Church and that was the reason; the mere idea that a woman does not have the right to choose to do what she wants with her body seemed unfathomable to me.
I don't want this to turn into a religious/Catholic bash thread as that is not my intent.
The reason I am posting this is because this event it happened over 40 years ago.
Same story different day and no, things haven't changed much in India or with the Church have they? 
