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Police arrest woman they say paid $1,000 for baby

Police in Pittsburgh have arrested a woman who they say paid $1,000 for a baby that she then claimed she had given birth.

Andrea Curry-Demus told police she bought the baby from a woman named Tina. Police were called to an area hospital after a report of a woman with a baby that was not hers.

Police say they want to know who the mother is.

-- Lance Murray

Man denies buying babies in Mexico

A Texas man being held in Mexico on child trafficking charges said allegations that he bought babies from poor Mexican women and sold them to adoptive U.S. couples are false.

Amado Torres Vega, 64, of Harlingen, and his 25-year-old girlfriend, Maria Isabel Hernandez, are suspected of buying more than a dozen children ages 2 or younger, Mexican officials said.

He told The Monitor newspaper during an interview Thursday at the Reynosa, Mexico, Police Department that his efforts to help the women were legitimate.

"I wasn't making a dime off of this," he said. "These women were irresponsible. What are their options? Abortion? I did what I could to give their children a better life."

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-- Bill Miller