The woman allegedly commented on the child's hair and eyes and asked “how much she could purchase him for,” according to the probable cause affidavit.
Rebecca Lanette Taylor, 49, was arrested Tuesday and charged with sale or purchase of a child, a third-degree felony, according to jail records.
Taylor allegedly commented on the woman’s son’s blonde hair and blue eyes and asked “how much she could purchase him for,” according to the probable cause affidavit obtained by NBC News. The mother told police that Taylor was with another woman, who asked what the child’s name was, but the mother did not disclose the name.
Once in the car, Taylor stood behind a black SUV next to the mother’s vehicle. Taylor kept saying she wanted the child and would pay $500,000 in cash for him, the affidavit said. Eventually she got into the black SUV and left.The officer who wrote the affidavit went to Taylor’s residence to question her about the incident.
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