FLORIDA COUPLE CHARGED IN SALE OF BABY TWINS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The parents of twin 4-day-old boys were charged Thursday Thursday: see week. with trying to sell the newborns for $25,000 to undercover police, authorities said. The day after the boys were born, police said, their parents put word out that they were for sale. Hillsborough Hillsborough or Hillsboro is the name of a number of cities and counties throughout the world. Some take their names directly or indirectly from Hillsborough, South Yorkshire, in England (see below), and others from Hillsborough, County Down in Northern Ireland. sheriff's deputies, acting on a tip, arranged for the couple to take a $2,000 deposit for the twins outside a grocery store, authorities said. ``We were fearful the twins could be sold before we could buy them,'' said sheriff's spokesman Jack Espinosa. ``As soon as they took that money, we arrested them.'' Jeffrey Eugene Eugene, city (1990 pop. 112,669), seat of Lane co., W Oregon, on the Willamette River; inc. 1862. A processing and shipping center in a farming area, the "Emerald City" has lumbering, food-processing, and microchip and other electronics industries. May, 30, and Christine Marie Love, 24, were charged with two counts of sale of a minor child, a felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. carrying a maximum prison term of five years on conviction. Bond was set at $50,000 each. The twins, born four weeks premature at 4 pounds, 2 ounces and 4 pounds, 14 ounces, remained hospitalized in good condition. The state gave legal custody of the boys to Love's mother, Lynda Dinsmore. |
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