Delaware Mother Pleads Guilty to Trying to Sell Her Child
- Posted on June 7, 2012 at 11:57pm by
Mytheos Holt
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It’s difficult to tell whether this story is an argument for or against the adoption process.
Last October, 34-year-old Bridget Wismer of Delaware was arrested at her home for trying to perpetrate a disturbing and decidedly non-maternal transaction. Specifically, Wismer was trying to sell her two-month-old baby to a complete stranger for $15,000. And yes, that’s all. $15,000 is apparently the going rate for children in Delaware.
Wismer had been caught on surveillance camera arranging the final steps of the transaction with John Gavaghan of Philadelphia, who was also arrested at the time.
Bridget Wismer and John Gavaghan
Now, these two parentally impaired individuals have pled guilty to what they had previously only been accused of. NBC10 Philadelphia reports:
The baby boy was born on Aug. 31 and according to court papers, Wismer didn’t want the child.
In early September, detectives were tipped off by Wismer’s grandmother, according to police. They investigated, but couldn’t substantiate the baby-selling accusation. In late September, police got another tip that led them to the place where Wismer and Gavaghan met to finalize the deal.On Sept. 30, two days after Gavaghan had allegedly taken the 1-month-old boy home, police arrested Gavaghan at his Philadelphia apartment and placed the baby in foster care. Wismer was arrested that same day at her home. The two were indicted by a Superior Court Grand Jury on October 24 to dealing in children, falsifying a birth certificate and conspiracy.
During a court appearance today, Wismer pleaded guilty but also mentally ill to one count of falsifying a birth certificate, which is a felony. Prosecutors agreed that Wismer’s guilty but mentally ill plea was appropriate in light of a psychological diagnosis provided by Psychologist Dr. Abraham Mensch. Gavaghan also pleaded guilty to one count of falsifying a birth certificate. Both Wismer and Gavaghan face up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Their sentencing is set for August 17.
If you’re worried about the child, no worries. Delaware’s Department of Family Services is keeping him completely safe.
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blackyb
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:25pmAnother scam to leech from the public. Unknown lets the father who should be paying off the hook. These people should be jailed. Most of them know who the father is, but will not tell. Take a blood sample from the child and see if it matches up with some known criminal for I would almost guarantee that most of the fathers have a police record. Put the father to work supporting his own children by paying the court and they can collect from social services. These children are not the responsiblity of the American tax payer. These fathers could be tracked by using DNA that would nearly match up with the father and take it from there.
Report Post »txannie
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 10:23amHow in the world would you know that?
Report Post »NativeCracker
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 7:59amIf these two morons could ‘falsify a birth certificate’ seemingly overnight, what took the Obama’s so long to come up with their fake one?
Report Post »Macman1138
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 8:07amShe had a child with that creature?
Report Post »Good Lord Almighty!!!
mickie4
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 7:43amThank Heavens that the Grandma tipped off police about what was going on.
Report Post »Yes, Bigwheeler, from the picture of that guy, it scares me to think what he wanted to buy this little baby boy for. This story is a terrible shame!
EP46
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 5:01amStrange she was able to find a buyer for her child while she was mentally ill. There are many places you can take a baby if you do not want the child…..hospitals…fire departments…but she was able to find a buyer for her baby ??
Report Post »1956
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 6:05amShe’s crazy. not stupid.
Well, maybe a little stupid…
Report Post »MRMANN
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 6:15amI know mentally ill people are described sometimes as having incredible physical strength. IApprehending these ill people can necessitate the use of several authorities in order that the patient be apprehended and subdued. I wonder if this strength also implies somehow a mental dimension, brought about by singleness of purpose, or hyperfocusing as it’s also caused. I don’t know, just a possible idea. . .
Report Post »Msgt Ret
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 6:41amYes, there are places to take the child if you do not want it but they dont give you $15K to buy crack.
Report Post »Kisses6350
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 9:35amNever underestimate the shear will of a meth addict! It sickends me what this monster of man would have done to that poor baby! PWT! ***Smirks***
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 3:29amSo we are supposed to feel relieved because the child is in state care. I don’t know what is scarier these people or the state. We have had some pretty devastating things happen to children here in Washington State, we need another system for taking care of these defenseless gifts from God.
Report Post »Endstatism
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 5:53amThe wonderful child protective services where the very things they claim to be protecting children from happen such as sexual and physical abuse. In some cases children are removed from homes because of unproven allegations of abuse. Children removed from the biological families end up with what could be a lifetime of struggling with psychological damage. And it is very difficult to sue state child protective services even if they engage in gross violations of civil and constitutional rights as they have been granted special sovereign immunity by state legislatures.
Report Post »MRMANN
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 6:52amAin’t that the truth!
Report Post »txannie
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 10:27amIf the grandmother tipped the police off, why isn’t she stepping up to take the baby? Sorry…oh dummy me….probably not any better off since she is probably just like the mother…..
Report Post »Quagaar Warrior
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Report Post »She’s obviously a democrat. If she had any fuctional brain cells, (which no democrats have), she’d ask Eric Holder to defend her.
The problem is,
One; she’s white. Holder hates whites!
Two; She’d have to prove that she voted for Obama. (Card check,anyone?)
And Three; She’d have to prove through a DNA confirmation that the baby was at least 1/2 black as is our feerless leader or it’s at least 1/32 Cherokee as Lizzy Warren claims to be.
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Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 2:30amoooohhh…I got the cherokee thing! my Grandma said so!
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 2:51am@Quagaar Warrior
Whats the difference if she is a democrat or not. I think you have missed the point.
This young women rather didn’t appreciate the gift she was given, or didn’t understand the gift she was given.
Their are no real winners here. There is only hope, that this child will go to a family that will understand and appreciate the gift God has given. And it is my sincerest prayers, that who ever receives this child will hold it and love it all the days of his life. Because this little Boy has never knowen any love at all……
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:43amTell her they know where babies come from now. Making them is more fun than raising them.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:38amApparently not so for some people are getting away with falsifying birth certificates and social security numbers. Is it setting a precedent? We can always wait until the kid is old enough and run him for Prez. It’s all good. At least for now we are sure for the most part that this little guy is a natural born citizen.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:32amThis woman needed some of those Fluking- Flock-a-lot condoms. Then she may have had the baby just to sell. People seem to be so bad on drugs their minds do not work near right.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:27amGet this baby to a waiting adoptive couple today. Just so a lottery for screened couples who have been waiting more than 2 years and be done with it.
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:04amsomething funny going on folks…heads up!
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:06amDangerously high radiation levels reported in Indiana
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By Elliott Freeman
Jun 7, 2012 – 22 hours ago in Science
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Report Post »According to RadNet, the United States’ radiation monitoring network, South Bend, Indiana experienced extremely high levels of radiation last night — up to 100 times higher than safe levels.
Last night, live records for a radiation monitoring station near the border of Indiana and Michigan have shown radiation levels as high as 7,139 counts per minute (CPM). At 1:55 a.m., Eastern time, the radiation level was at 2,558 CPM. The level varied between 2,000 CPM and 7,000 CPM for several hours.
Normal radiation levels are between 5 and 60 CPM, and any readings above 100 CPM should be considered unusual and trigger an alert, according to information listed on the radiationnetwork website.
The online geiger counter monitoring network operated by Black Cat Systems also reported unusually high radiation levels in the same region.
This article will be updated as more information becomes available.
UPDATE: As of 2:45 a.m. Eastern Time, the radiation level for the station in Northern Indiana had risen to 3,989 CPM. RadNet has yet to issue a statement in response.
UPDATE: RadNet has issued the following alert:
Very high reading in South Bend, IN station this evening. Reason unknown. Station unresponsive to contact at this late hour. Since this same station has triggered the Alert system before, which Alerts may have b
Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:07amUPDATE: As of 2:45 a.m. Eastern Time, the radiation level for the station in Northern Indiana had risen to 3,989 CPM. RadNet has yet to issue a statement in response.
UPDATE: RadNet has issued the following alert:
Very high reading in South Bend, IN station this evening. Reason unknown. Station unresponsive to contact at this late hour. Since this same station has triggered the Alert system before, which Alerts may have been false, and because his current readings do not appear to be corroborated by nearby stations, we have disabled his station for the time being. Will report back when we know more.
UPDATE: RadNet issued the following statement this morning:
The alert level reading last evening appears to be a false alert from an equipment malfunction. Here is the station’s report:
“out of control readings on the GeigerGraph screen from about 11:30pm local time that occurred while sleeping. My apologies to all. I have no idea what caused this. Shut down GeigerGraph and restarted. Readings from the Geiger were in the normal range (the Geiger operates on A/C). All cable connections are tight and not loose. Am speculating between the GFI and USB Adapter and some sort of voltage spikes. The uninterruptable power supply UPS had lost power and had died – a tripped GFI. I am not going to leave the system running while not at home until I can determine and fix the problem.”
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/326186#ixzz1xAvzOnWC
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:09am7,000+ Radiation Level At 1:20 AM 6-7-2012! Why?
Thu Jun 07 2012 00:24
According to RadNet, the United States’ radiation monitoring newtork, Northern Indiana is experiencing extremely high levels of radiation — up to 100 times higher than normal.
Live records for a radiation monitoring station near the border of Indiana and Michigan have shown radiation levels as high as 7,139 counts per minute (CPM). At 1:55 a.m., Eastern time, the radiation level was at 2,558 CPM and dropping. The level has varied between 2,000 CPM and 7,000 CPM for several hours.
Normal radiation levels are between 5 and 60 CPM, and any readings above 100 CPM should be considered unusual and trigger an alert, according to information listed on the RadNet website.
RadNet has not yet issued an alert regarding this issue or stated whether the monitor may be malfunctioning.
Read more: digitaljournal.com/article/326186#ixzz1×5NsTfox
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:24amhttp://beforeitsnews.com/story/2230/817/7,000_Radiation_Level_Indiana_1:20_AM_6-7-2012_Why.html
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:30amhttp://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/uqlq9/reddit_i_think_there_is_a_giant_nuclear_coverup/
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:31amEDIT 14 pwns EDIT 7: Redditor says: Central Ohio here. I work at a large public university (not hard to guess which) next to a small research reactor that’s located near the back of campus. There’s (normally) a large fleet of hazmat response trucks and trailers parked in the nearby lot. Most of them are NIMS early response vehicles funded by Homeland Security (says so right on them). Haven’t seen them move once since I started working a few years ago. Tonight? All gone. edit: will try to get pictures tonight/tomorrow
Report Post »EDIT 7 comes first: To those who say it was still a malfunction:
You miss a VERY elementary point: one detector was privately ran in South Bend. That one “malfunctioned”. But then the data is corroborated by a federally ran detector in Ft Wayne, a good drive away. And then more data as time goes on from other detectors. Like here, where one can see the drifts over Little Rock, AR 12 hours later, which lines up with the wind maps. For those that don’t seem to know, that’s a long way away from Ft Wayne. And the “average” CPM level in Little Rock has been around 8 CPM for the past 12 months.
and to those that point to the pinhole coolant leak in Dayton:
that pinhole leak couldn’t possibly account for the levels seen here, and it was in hot standby mode (hot & pressurized, but no fission) because it was being refueled. And the workers would have triggered alarms if they were contaminated.
EDIT 11 also jumps the line: On a tip, I called the Traverse Cit
nzkiwi
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 2:55am@ Teabunny
Well spotted, but it turns out to be an equipment malfunction.
I always look forward to your stuff, but on this occassion it seems to be a false alarm.
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 8:43amhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=NC-20120607-35365-USA
updates in rsoe confirms leak.
history of problems http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/01/regulators_put_spotlight_on_da.html
http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/nucfront.html (good luck finding this one from the ohio citizens action board. cache copy!
Report Post »neiman1
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:47amWould someone parentally impaired individuals? Until then this is just abusre.
Report Post »Quagaar Warrior
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Report Post »Hey NEIMAN1,
I think it’s time for you to pass the bong along to your buddies who are waitng for it. Quit hoarding it, man!
Now that that is done, try to repeat your last comment so that those of us, (who happen to be sober), may just understand what the heII you just attempted to convey to us!!!
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marine249
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:06amwhat to he!! ???????????????
Report Post »rsanchez1
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:44amThese sickos should suffer the maximum penalty. In fact, I think 5 years and $10,000 isn’t enough for what these freaks tried to do.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 2:02amSterilization also.
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:37amSo that is all a human life is worth? Not much huh. No morals no standards. We got planned parenthood that kills them then women like this that sells them then freaks that eat them. Lord Jesus come quickly.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:50amYou read that gold leaf foil wrap thing too? I cannot allow my mind to go there. My mind will not register this. I cannot even think about that to many degrees into it. I am with you on the “Come Quickly Jesus” statement if this is anywise true, because we are seeing faces eat off and things I never thought I would hear of in my lifetime. It is like reading a horror novel only real life happenings.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:36amIt is not about Adoption; It is about implicit & explicit SLAVERY! In Islam & most of the World… Men claim to be Masters over Women… and Parents over Children!
As a Predator Species, we want Obedience from those whom we consider Inferior… but we recognize Freedom & Love… which drives us Crazy with Contradiction!
Report Post »Dismayed_Texan
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:31amI shudder to think what could have happened to that baby…thank God they rescued him. As for the “mother”… Funny how she bears a striking resemblance (could be sisters) to my nephews mom…who also doesn’t give a DAMN about her son.
Report Post »BlesstheJews
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:06amWell after all, isnt it a womens choice what she does with her kids? Aborts them, sells them…..
Report Post »CABERNETQHS
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 8:08amGreat point. Children’s lives are not valued in our society. If you shook an adult to death or near death, your punishment is significantly more severe. Life should be protected, period. I‘m sick of hearing about a woman’s choice, and I am a woman. Our priorities are screwed up and it will only get worse with these progressives i carge who don’t think a baby is a real person until a certain age.
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:04amso …wheres the Father? (if she put unknown down at birth, she could have just corrected the records, with this guy’s name…taken the money and run. dumb! …and I am glad!)
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:39amSpeaking from personall experience?
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 1:03amboth my babies are from my husband. My birth certificate has Father unknown.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:02amIf you’re worried about the child, no worries. Delaware’s Department of Family Services is keeping him completely safe.
we are from the government ……………………..trust us
Report Post »BIgWheeler
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 12:20amNormally I would agree with you, but that guy has pedophilia, child sacrifice, and murder written all over his face… And not necessarily in that order either!
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