Roma gang who sold newborn to French couple says it was ‘gift’
A Roma gang accused of selling a newborn baby to a couple for the equivalent of £6,500 and a BMW car has told a French court the infant was a “gift”.
Ionita, a 35-year-old Romanian, Valeriu Rosu, 42, Florian Stan, 33, and Florin Coman, 25, appeared in a French court on Tuesday over accusations of human trafficking and involvement in “baby sales”.
All the accused, who deny the charges, face up to ten years in jail and fines equivalent to over £1 million.
The only defendant not present in court was Fana Moses, the mother of the baby boy named Tony.
The gang was arrested as they were about to board a flight to return to Romania.
In 2013, French police received a tip that a Romanian mother had sold her newly born child to Mike and Carmen Gorgan.
The couple also face charges over “complicity in human trafficking.”
Their lawyer, Patrick Gontart, insists that they believe they have done nothing wrong.
“The Gorgans had fallen into the trap of many European couples. These are good people who are now unhappy because their child has been placed in a home,” Gontart said.
Falsified documents, including identity cards, were procured for the child in order to make it seem that the couple were his biological parents.
The gang was also implicated in three other cases of baby sales.
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