SALINAS, Calif. — A man convicted of trying to sell his baby outside a California Walmart store is heading to prison for six years.
Patrick Fousek and Samantha Tomasini were arrested in June 2010 after witnesses told Salinas police that they were offering their 8-month-old daughter for $25.
Prosecutors said the couple were methamphetamine users and appeared high when they were arrested.
Fousek’s lawyer argued that the incident was a misunderstanding and his client was never serious about selling the baby.
The Monterey County man was convicted in October of child endangerment and possessing drug paraphernalia. A judge Wednesday gave him the maximum sentence of six years.
Tomasini previously pleaded no contest to child endangerment. She was sentenced to four years’ probation and placement in a drug treatment program.
The child has since been adopted.
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