Poverty forces tribal to sell baby
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19/06/2003
Unable to feed themselves or their children, a poverty-stricken tribal couple sold their two-month-old daughter for Rs 2,000. Gugloth Nanu, a mother of five daughters, sold her fifth child to a Registered Medical Practitioner to meet the medical expenses of her fourth child, but he disappeared with the child after paying only Rs 700. The incident took place in Gattikallu village in the Nalgonda district of Telangana region (Andhra Pradesh).