Wednesday, March 16, 2005
By Nate Reens
The Grand Rapids Press

BALDWIN -- A Lake County couple who wanted an infant girl to call their own are again childless while the Kentucky couple accused of selling the 10-month-old to them for $5,000 could face criminal charges, police say.

Lake County Undersheriff Michael Dermyer said police in Williamsburg, Ky., contacted deputies in Baldwin Sunday and asked them to retrieve the girl after the mother's boyfriend, who is not the biological father, confessed they sold the child last week.

"Our first reaction was shock, of course," Dermyer said. "This is certainly a new one to me, but at this point we've got to wait and see what Kentucky does

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