A woman reportedly approached a mother at a Walmart and tried to buy her baby for $500,000, before being arrested.
Rebecca Lanette Taylor, 49, went up to the mother at a self-checkout counter at a store in Crockett, Texas. The mother said that Taylor accosted her, said she liked her one-year-old baby’s blond hair and blue eyes and asked for a price for him.
The mother laughed off Taylor’s question as her son sat in a shopping cart, but the woman continued to pursue the matter by saying she had $250,000 in her car. The mother told her no amount would do and told Taylor to back off from her son, but the Taylor refused to, according to an affidavit obtained by The Messenger last week.
Worried, the mother waited until Taylor and another woman she was with left the Walmart. However, outside in the parking lot, ‘Taylor 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’, the affidavit states.
The mother locked both of her children in the car as Taylor stood behind a black SUV next to their vehicle. Taylor kept offering $500,000 for the mother’s son and eventually got in the black SUV and drove away.
Then the mother reported Taylor to the police. Crockett Police Department Lieutenant Ahleea Price looked at surveillance footage from Walmart and said it appeared in line with the mother’s story, the affidavit states. The lieutenant went to Taylor’s home to question her about the incident.
‘She told me that she doesn’t like thieves, then she stated I could speak with her attorney and to get off her “precipice”. She slammed the door shut,’ Price said in the affidavit.
The mother reported Taylor to the police and she was arrested last Tuesday.
Taylor, who had wanted to buy the baby for some time, was charged with sale or purchase of a child, a third-degree felony in Texas. If convicted, she faces as many as 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
On Thursday, Taylor, of Crockett, was released from the Houston County Jail on a $50,000 bond, according to the Daily Mail.
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