{"id":565,"date":"2004-10-18T23:06:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=565"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"girl_for_sale_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/18\/girl_for_sale_c\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl for sale, cheap."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sick, sick, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htnext.com\/news\/7242_1059150,00180008.htm\">sickening<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Driven by acute poverty, a mother in Orissa sold her 20-day-old daughter to a neighbour for Rs 600 (about $13), media reports in Bhubaneswar said on Friday.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Kusum Majhi, 27, of Palisipada village in Kalahandi district, hit by drought and famine several times over the past decade, sold her second child to Dhanu Naik, a middle-aged labourer on Thursday, the Oriya daily Samaja  reported.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>&#8230;Kusum and her mother Sebati, 60, searched for a buyer in the village over the past few days, and Dhanu Naik showed interest in buying the child for Rs 600, the newspaper said.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>&#8230;The sale of the baby was formally executed on Thursday in the presence of several other villagers, with Naik and Kusum submitting a document to the village council to avoid &#8220;future legal complications&#8221;, the report said.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>How is this POSSIBLY legal??  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sick, sick, sickening: Driven by acute poverty, a mother in Orissa sold her 20-day-old daughter to a neighbour for Rs 600 (about $13), media reports in Bhubaneswar said on Friday. Kusum Majhi, 27, of Palisipada village in Kalahandi district, hit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/18\/girl_for_sale_c\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}