Texas- A mother has been sentenced to prison after admitting to selling her son and planning to sell her other two children.
Authorities arrested Garza after they carried out a drug search warrant at her home back in July. It was then that agents found her 7-year-old son, along with her two daughters, ages 2 and 3, who were also about to be sold.
Garza sold her son for $2,500.
In an affidavit, Garza admitted that her boyfriend, along with herself owed a drug debt and she sold her son to a woman for $500 in addition to having the debt cleared. She was also going to receive another payment of $700 after the “custody paperwork” was done.
According to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Esmeralda Garza, 29, was convicted of three counts of selling or purchasing a child. She was sentenced to six years in prison for selling her children, two years for conspiracy to sell or purchase a child and for money laundering.
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