| I still think that people may be villifying this guy more than he deserves.
Think about this scenario. For whatever reason, the guy wants to get rid of his kid (can't hack it, mother left and he's not equipped do to it alone, whatever). He asks around about how to find someone to take his daughter.
Someone mentions that he can get a few thounsand dollars for her on the black market. So now he has a choice of giving his daughter away or getting a few thousand dollars to give her to someone else. If the outcome is the same but one way you get more money for it, can you really blame him for wanting to sell it? Yes, it is illegal, but everyone does things that are against the law to one degree or another. How many of you drive over the speed limit, or drank alcohol while under-age, or have done drugs? Read the most evil thing you've done thread for more examples. Just because these are "less" illegal doesn't absolve you from guilt for doing something illegal. It just goes to show that just because selling your child is illegal doesn't automatically make it a bad thing.
So maybe the first thought was that the guy wanted to get rid of his daughter and selling her was just one of the way to do it. Nothing I've read makes me believe that his primary goal was the $7,000.
I know that this is an overly optimistic view of what might have happened but I think this is just as likely as the overly pessimistic thought that his daughter was just a commodity to him. I have a feeling if we had more information we would find that it is somewhere in the middle.  |