The Price of a Human

Many have often pondered at how much a human being was worth. In Chicopee, Massachusetts, a man seemed to have found the answer. Outside of a Pride gas station on May 17th, the man went up to a station maintenance man and offered to trade his three-month old daughter in exchange for only two 40-ounce beers.
“For two 40s, you can have her,” Brace told the employee, according to Chicopee Police Chief John Ferraro’s account.
The maintenance man then immediately called the police on 24-year-old Matthew Brace, Northampton resident. When the Chicopee police arrived on the scene, they found Brace and his daughter hiding behind a trashcan at the hotel where the man was staying, directly across the street from the gas station.
Details of the case have been released and are as follows: Representatives from the state Department of Children and Family Services took the small girl into custody and, while Brace was not arrested, he has to appear in court on the charge of reckless endangerment of a child.
The baby’s mother, also at the scene, was in the gas station convenient store when the event occurred. She was buying cigarettes and was not charged.
Is the world happy now that Matthew Brace has put a price on a person? Are we relieved that the answer has finally been found? Does anyone else think that it is ironic that the event took place at a Pride gas station? Only time will tell.