Instead of selling off some non-essential items like a TV or maybe a set of golf clubs when his financial situation became dire, a Saudi business man chose to sell his son. For $20 million.

Saud bin Nasser Al Shahry ran a debt-collecting firm until it was ruled illegal by local courts, and he was forced to close it down. Sensing his impending financial demise, he approached the Labour Office for assistance, but was refused as the ministry does not provide aid to individuals over 35. At this point Al Shahry dreamed up a masterful plan: to sell his own son.

Al Shahry placed an ad on Facebook advertising his son for the hefty price-tag of $20 million. According to him the sale would provide “a decent life to his mother and sister rather than living in poverty.” If that isn’t blatant favouritism I don’t know what is.

Apparently Al Shahry is ready to make the deal official by taking the sale procedures to court, his only stipulation is to know in which city the purchaser resides. So technically he’d be more than happy to sell his son to a known deviant, as long as he knew in which city his son would be subjected to kiddy fiddling.

Some sources are alleging that the sale is stunt and a plea for help, hoping to garner the attention of a wealthy Sheik will provide aid based on sympathy. Not very likely.

Child trafficking is illegal in Saudi Arabia and the country has been “repeatedly blacklisted by the United States as a prodigious human trafficker.”

[Source: RT]