Well, it’s certainly an original way to land yourself in prison for three years: A 29-year-old woman from Perth pretended to have an abortion in order to bequeath her baby to her gay best friend. The biological father only suspected something was amiss when someone nonchalantly mentioned he was the “spitting image” of the child.
In order to sell their story to her ex-partner, the dreary duo went so far as to create a Facebook page for a fictitious surrogate mother named “Clare Green,” who they imagined to be a lesbian lawyer. They also signed a birth certificate, claiming they were the biological parents of the child –– a claim subsequently disproven by a DNA test.
The shady 35-year old gay fellow (who bought the baby for £300) also got himself three years in the clink. Handing down the sentences at Perth Sheriff Court, Sheriff William Wood called their plot “an elaborate and cynical scheme… You have little insight into your actions and the consequences of others. The maintenance of your innocence does neither of you any credit.”
“What they did was pure evil,” the biological father said. “They must have known the effect this would have on my daughter and me, and they still went through with it.”
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For that, the partners in crime can expect lots of lonely jail time, intermittently interrupted by visits from their old friend “Clare Green,” who perhaps should’ve represented them in court.
h/t: Pink News
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notevenwrong
I can’t put my finger on what is was they did wrong. This comes down to an extra-judicial adoption. Was it creating a false identity? Does that really deserve prison time?
Tobi
@notevenwrong: I guess, in effect, they “stole” the biological father’s child.
badtungsten
Had the gay guy been the actual father of the child, then there would be no crime involved. But since he was not, they effectively forged a birth certificate and the gay guy kidnapped an infant from his true biological father.
svustabler
@notevenwrong: Hmm, I see forging governmental records which is usually treated as a misdemeanor, but I think a clever prosecuting attorney may also charge him as a principal with custodial interference which can be a felony and then charge her also as under accomplice liability.
Cam
So the father wanted the mother to have an abortion, but now is mad because she didn’t? Or did I get it wrong?
jwtraveler
@Cam: Nowhere in the story does it say that the father wanted her to have an abortion or even that he knew she was pregnant, but the ruse suggests that he knew she was. Remember, in most countries a woman does not need permission from the man who impregnated her to get an abortion, but you do need permission to give the father’s child up for adoption.
notevenwrong
I can totally understand wanting to keep your child away from an ex. Many, many mothers don’t ever inform the man who impregnated them. I guess her mistake was informing him in the first place.
Dionte
She have aborted it and had another, wouldn’t be in jail.