Hellmuth Kolb, 85, allegedly tried to buy the young child on August 16 in the Port Orange Winn Dixie grocery store in Florida, according to the Port Orange Police Department.
According to the Port Orange Police Department, Hellmuth Kolb, 85, reportedly attempted to purchase the young child on August 16 at the Port Orange Winn Dixie supermarket in Florida.
After the incident was reported to the police by the parents, they opened an investigation.
Kolb was then apprehended on August 25 and taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail, according to the police.
Klob is a known sex offender who is currently on probation for “similar issues” and is not allowed to engage in any way with children under the age of 18, according to the police.
“Mr. Kolb should have simply stuck to just grocery shopping. Thanks to our SIU, Mr. Kolb did receive a complimentary ride in one of our air-conditioned Police cars, and a free stay at Hotel 92 [Volusia County Branch Jail],” police said in the Facebook post.
This was not Kolb’s first try at something similar; in 2018, he approached a woman at a Walmart store and made her an offer of $200,000 to buy her eight-year-old daughter, according to FOX 35.
This horrifying incident followed a comparable event in Russia where a mother allegedly sold her seven-year-old kid for $8,224 after advertising the boy on a website for organ transplants.
Sources claim that the mother, Nargiza Aitmatova, sent her small boy to his “aunt” to pay off debts she had accumulated and to please her new husband, who didn’t like her son.
Aitmatova, according to a source, turned up all of the child’s official paperwork, including his “medical card, insurance policy, birth certificate, and migration card.”
