A 37-year-old Melbourne, Florida woman was charged with child-neglect after a tow truck driver informed police that she offered her child to him in exchange for gasoline money.
The tow truck driver, Roy Baijnath, refused Marcy Pappalardo’s offer to sell him her 6-year-old son, then followed her car while he called police. Another woman was in the car at the time.
Pappalardo was arrested soon after, as her son sat crying on the trunk of the car.
Baijnath shared his thoughts:
You know, I have mixed feelings. To see the kid crying like that on TV was tough. I caused that upon him and I have a kid of my own. But had it been the other way, where would the child be?
Mallory Acker, the woman in the car with Pappalardo, explained to the police that Baijnath requested sex with Pappalardo in exchange for gas money and contacted police with the “story” after she refused.
Baijnath denied Acker’s claims.
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