{"id":8925,"date":"2009-07-23T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-23T23:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T21:57:00","slug":"don-t-buy-your-babies-over-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/8925-don-t-buy-your-babies-over-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t buy your babies over the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I can confirm that they will be prosecuted,&#8221; a prosecution spokeswoman told AFP. &#8220;The exact charges are not yet known. The charge sheet is not yet finalised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The child, dubbed Baby Jayden in the media, was taken from the Dutch couple and handed over to Belgian authorities last December. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Dutch couple, who are reportedly unable to have children of their own, made contact with the boy&#8217;s biological mother after seeing a web advertisement, and took him a few hours after he was born in a hospital in Ghent, in the Dutch-speaking Flanders region of Belgium, in July 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch media have claimed that the couple paid the child&#8217;s biological parents between &euro;5 000 and &euro;10 000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=183713\"><strong>Buying babies online<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch couple is to be prosecuted in the Netherlands over allegations that they bought a Belgian baby on the Internet, authorities said Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}