Man tried to sell baby for home improvements, police say

[BertRoot]

<b style="font-size: 14px;">APPLETON, Wisconsin (AP) -- A man raising his 18-month-old daughter alone tried to sell the little girl for $7,000 so he could make improvements to his house, police said Friday.</b></p><p>The man from Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, tried to sell his daughter to a Grand Chute couple, who helped authorities in the investigation, Grand Chute police Chief Ed Kopp said.</p><p>"He was having difficulties raising the child alone and wanted to use the money for some home remodeling," Kopp said.</p><p>Danny Vu, 37, was charged Friday with unauthorized adoption placement, a felony that carries up to six years in prison.</p><p>The daughter showed no signs of physical abuse, Kopp said. Brown County officials will probably place her in temporary foster care.</p><p>The man wanted to sell the girl "and didn't want anything to do with the baby after that," Outagamie County District Attorney Carrie Schneider said.</p><p>The man owns a nail salon in Green Bay. A salon employee told the man he knew a Grand Chute woman who was looking to adopt a baby, and the man and the Grand Chute woman were introduced, police said. A friend of the woman later called police.</p><p>Schneider said the couple wanted to contact attorneys and follow legal adoption procedures, but the man did not want to involve attorneys.</p><p>Police arrested the man after the Grand Chute woman called police to say he was on his way to their home with the girl Wednesday night, Kopp said.</p><p>"We obviously had some concern about the child and what condition she was in, so we made the decision to intercept him," he said.</p><p>The girl's mother left the area several months ago and is not in the country, Schneider said.</p><p>Vu was jailed in lieu of a $10,000 cash bond.</p><p>Defense attorney Eugene Bartman said Vu, who was born in Vietnam but is a U.S. citizen, has never been in trouble with police or in jail before.</p><p>Vu "understands what's going on and thinks it's very unfair," Bartman said.</p>

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[Nikki]

he deserves shooting