Can you imagine if we did this over in the US? The hospitals wouldn't have room for the new babies being born.

It's not a hostage, it's collateral. That's nuts!

Lets see,
Baby taken+Money demanded=Kidnapping

Ahhh...the wonderful amorality of unregulated market forces.

He said the parents had initially agreed to the arrangement.

Like they had a choice in the matter. (Birth in a bathtub vs in a hospital....)

Mercy. That poor kid.

The hospital is Big Brother

What's the big deal anyway?
It's not strange news here in Ghana. Well until the national health insurance thing started. And even then not everyone is covered.

Nice, kidnapping. Too bad no one else sees it that way.

This is just ridiculous. I know this happened in Indonesia but it's just plain CrAzY. How can they use a baby as collateral - this is a child, a human being, not a car! I agree that this situation is a Kidnapping. I wish I had the money to send them so they could get their child back.

I agree completely -- this is a kidnapping. People are crazy, I wish everyone understood that so we could work to fix it