Craigslist Babies For Sale: Joshua Stagnitto Craigs List Ad

by NowPublic Staff | April 26, 2010 at 12:35 pm

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Joshua Stagnitto, Father Arrested For Trying To Sell Children On Craig's List - Police Not Amused.

Josuah Stagnitto, likely did not appreciate the furor he would cause by posting an ad on the classified site Craig's List, offering his two children for sale.

The 24 year old father of two from Rochester New York is under arrest and faces up to a year in prison for the Craig's List ad offering to sell his two baby boys. aged 1 and 2.

In the ad, Stagnitto wrote that his children could be used as slaves or foot stools, but insists that he was joking. ”I thought it would be it would be funny if I put my kids on there because how more ridiculous can you possibly get,” he told CNN.

Police trooper from Monroe County Child Protective Services arrested Stagnitto after receiving a top to their child abuse hotline.

"Troopers think the time and effort it took to investigate the matter was serious business. Stagnitto was charged with falsely reporting an incident, which is a misdemeanor.

Of course, placing false and illegal advertisements on Craig's List has a long and dubious history.

A Hartford, Connecticut man in dispute with a neighbor apparently placed a fraudulent ad on Craig's List that invite men over for an orgy and group sex.

Philip James Conran, 42, of West Hartford, Conn., was arrested in early April for allegedly creating a fraudulent Craigslist ad from a soccer mom "looking for fantasy to be filled."

The fake Soccer Mom Lusting for group sex Craig's List ad attracted a lot of attention police say

West Hartford Police Chief James Strillacci said even veteran officers were surprised by the number of strangers who knocked on the woman's door, called the house or drove by.

"We were saying to ourselves, 'The economy must be worse than we think if all of these able-bodied men are able to immediately drop everything and drive over to this neighborhood'" on a Monday morning, he said

Tragically, one of the men who responded to the fake craig's list ad went to another address and sexually assaulted a woman.