Woman in Texas Arrested and Charged After Trying to Buy Child for $500,000 in Walmart

A woman in Texas has been arrested after she allegedly tried to buy a woman’s child at Walmart for $500,000.

Lord have mercy; if America could get any weirder. On Tuesday, police in Crockett, Texas, arrested and charged 49-year-old Rebecca Lanette Taylor for allegedly trying to buy a child from a Walmart shopper for $500,000. Taylor allegedly approached the mother at the self-checkout section of Walmart, NBC News reports. The mother had her baby in a car seat and a one-year-old son in a shopping cart.

The woman then allegedly commented on the woman’s son’s blonde hair and blue eyes and asked “how much she could purchase him for,” according to the affidavit. Thinking it was a joke, the mother laughed it off. But Taylor then told the mother that she had $250,000 and offered to pay the mother that amount for the mother’s son. The mother then told the woman to stay away from her son.

Continuing, “Taylor said that he was the perfect fit and she had been wanting to buy a baby for a long time now.” Taylor also asked the mother the name of her son, to which the mother declined to answer. Taylor was reportedly with another woman, and at one point, they both found out the child’s name and began to call him by his name. Before heading to her car, the mother waited for two women to leave the store.

When the mother got to the parking lot, Taylor began yelling at the woman, saying, “if she wouldn’t take $250,000 for him, then she would give $500,000 because she wanted him and she was going to take him,” the affidavit states. When the mother got in her car, Taylor kept telling her she wanted her son while standing behind a car that was parked next to the mother’s car.

Taylor was booked and eventually released on a $500,000 bond. She was charged with a sale or purchase of a child. She now faces a minimum of two years in jail and a maximum sentence of 10 years, and she may face a fine of up to $10,000.