Arkansas Couple Sentenced After Attempting to Sell Infant Son for $1,000 and a Six-Pack of Beer, Deranged Mother Avoids Prison Time
An Arkansas couple has been sentenced for trying to sell their two-month-old baby boy to a stranger at a campground in exchange for a six-pack of beer and $1,000.
Darien Urban, 22, and Shalene Ehlers, 21, both from Rogers, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the September 2024 incident at the Beaver Lake Hide-A-Way Campground in Benton County.
According to court documents, the couple approached a man named Cody Martin at the campsite and offered to relinquish their infant to him for the payment.
The couple even drafted and signed a handwritten contract stating:
“I, Darien Urban and Shalene Ehlers, are signing our rights over to Cody Martin of our baby for $1,000 on 9/21/24,” with a disclaimer adding, “After signing this there will be no changing y’all two’s minds to never contact again.”
Luckily, a witness at the campground overheard the conversation, used the manager’s office phone to alert authorities, and provided the signed document to law enforcement, leading to the couple’s arrest by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office.
Urban and Ehlers faced initial charges of endangering the welfare of a minor and attempting to accept consideration for relinquishment of a minor.
On December 22, they entered plea deals in Benton County Circuit Court before Judge Brad Karren.
Urban pleaded guilty to one count of attempted accepting compensation for adoption and was sentenced to three years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections, with an additional three-year sentence suspended.
The endangerment charge against him was dropped.
Ehlers pleaded guilty to both counts but was sentenced to six years of state-supervised probation, with her sentences suspended.
The failed mother will not face a single day in prison.
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