Mother Sold Her Twins for Liposuction Operation

A mother accused of selling her newborn twin boys for £9,000 to pay for a liposuction operation was involved in an online rent-a-womb trade with women desperate to have children, it was claimed today.

Restaurant worker Sonia Ringoir, 31, has been accused by police at Ghent, Belgium with treating her twins in a 'degrading' way and with fraud after a Dutch couple alleged that she had conned them.

Tamara Stegeman said that Ringoir had run sperm 'parties' at her large family home in Lovendegem, a village near Ghent, where she charged £300 a time to be impregnated with her husband's sperm.

Belgium has no law against selling children, Ringoir has been charged with "degrading treatment" of the children.)

31-year-old Sonia Ringoir, from Belgium has been accused by her estranged husband Marc Poppe, of selling her twin boys for more than $13,000 to pay for cosmetic surgery. Poppe told undercover Dutch reported that Ringoir had sold the babies to a friend to fund the fat removal procedure known as liposuction.1 He said that the couple had come up with the idea after they had searched the internet for ways to make money.