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- Mother: Sonia Ringoir, age 31
- Allegation: She sold her twins for £9,000 ($13,500)
- Motive: The money was for liposuction
- Ringoir was charged with "degrading treatment" and fraud
- She could face one month and five years in jail
- She spent five days in jail, the was released pending the results of police inquiries.
- Ringoir denies the allegations and says she gave the babies away for free
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31-year-old Sonia Ringoir, from Belgium has been accused by her estranged husband Marc Poppe, of selling her twin boys for more than $13,000 to pay for cosmetic surgery. Poppe told an undercover Dutch reporter that Ringoir had sold the babies to a friend to fund the fat removal procedure known as liposuction.Liposuction: Liposuction He said that the couple had come up with the idea after they had searched the internet for ways to make money. Ringoir has 5 other children aged between 3 and 13 by two different fathers.
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Charges
Because Belgium has no law against selling children, Ringoir has been charged with "degrading treatment" of the children. Times Online: Mother Sold Twins to Pay for Liposuction She was also charged with fraud after another Dutch couple said she had conned them by offering to be their surrogate mother. Ringoir has denied the allegations and says that she gave the twins away for free last March, to a friend who could not have her own babies because of a weak heart.Ringoir's new boyfriend told the press how her ex-husband has pressured her into losing weight. Eventually she had gastric band surgery to reduce her appetite, rather than lipsuction.
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