Maghen Duvala and Robert Ellingson
Here’s 25-year-old Maghen Duvala.
She looks really tired, doesn’t she?
Why do you think she’s so tired?
Could it be because she had a 2-month-old baby girl?
Infants are tiring. They keep you from doing things that you want to do. Like meth.
Here’s 23-year-old Robert Ellingson, Maghen’s boyfriend and her baby’s daddy.
Robert Ellingson had a warrant out for his arrest because of charges of driving with a suspended or revoked license, reckless driving and accidents involving death or personal injury.
He’s obviously a winner in the game of life.
Well, on the 21st of December, 2006, Robert Ellingson came up with the brilliant plan to get more meth by selling Maghen Duvala’s 2-month old baby.
Fair enough. People like babies. In today’s capitalistic marketplace, there has to be a demand for babies.
So, how much did Maghen and Robert decide to ask interested buyers of their baby? $20,000? $10,000?
Try $30.
After trying to sell the baby to passers-by in a bank parking lot (which makes perfect sense, because that’s where people keep their money) for a while and not getting any interested buyers, Maghen Duvala and Robert Ellingson moved their base of operations to a nearby PetSmart.
They also changed their sales approach, offering a free beer if you bought their baby.
Robert Ellingson’s dreams of setting up a chain of baby-selling franchises came to an abrupt halt when he approached the wrong customer – Josh Elder.
Josh Elder, who had just gotten out of a Teen Challenge counseling session, thought that Robert was joking until Maghen assured him that, yes, indeed, the baby is for sale.
Josh had recently lost a child of his own, and didn’t think it was a good idea for people to go around selling babies.
So he called the cops.
Cops came, arrested Maghen and Robert, and put them in jail, where they were charged with child neglect.
The Department of Children & Families took custody of the baby.
The DCF, at least, probably won’t sell it.
Do Maghen Duvala and Robert Ellingson deserve Hell?
- Yes - both of them (80%, 312 Votes)
- No - neither of them (17%, 65 Votes)
- Yes - but only Maghen (2%, 6 Votes)
- Yes - but only Robert (1%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 388
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they still have Teen Challenge? i used to read about that program in these books by this guy named John Benton. actually i still have several of those books. they’re hilarious! all of them are titled after a girl’s name (Debbie, Candi, etc.) and in every single one, the title girl (some prostitute or drug addict) gets into a sh**load of trouble, then meets the author himself and winds up at the Walter Hoving Home (a sort of girls’ Teen Challenge). in EVERY SINGLE BOOK!
anyway how weird to read about it here. and those two people are morons.
I have some of those books by John Benton. I know I have the Candi & Mandy ones. I have a couple of others, but I can’t remember the names of the rest of them. As soon as I saw the bit about “teen challenge” I thought of those books. The covers of those books show just how old they really are. The cars and clothing on them reminds me of how everyone used to dress when I was a little girl in the 1970′s. What’s really sad about those books is the fact that the stories in them are over 25+ years old, but those stories could be about any young person you see today. You can change the cover and you could change the character’s name, but the story itself seems to just keep repeating itself. It’s utterly heartbreaking!
Thank god this baby was taken away from these two idiots. It’s bad enough that they tried to sell her, but I can’t believe these two knuckleheads actually tried to add the incentive technique of a “free beer with the purchase of a baby.” How stupid are these people. If this female (sorry…I refuse to call her a woman or a mother because she’s not) could so easily part with her child after having her for 2 months by this time, then I wonder what kind of treatment that this baby has endured in this short time? I also wonder what kind of environment that this poor baby was forced to live in. Thank god she was taken when she was because this poor child would probably ended up neglected and abused by these two POS’s. I hope this baby if finally given the chance and things in life that she deserves.
THANK GOD, IT IS NOT UP TO YOU PEOPLE AS TO GOES TO HELL OR NOT.
That’s not what I was told. God said that if I created these polls, He would honor the results. All He asked is that we didn’t try to pull one of the GW Bush Florida tricks on Him. Now I don’t know about you, but when The Almighty tells me something, I tend to take Him at His word.
Wow. I really thought that this site couldn’t surprise me anymore…
Didn’t Charles Manson’s mom try to sell him for a pitcher of beer? Lovely. At least DCS stepped in before the child was killed or sold to the highest bidder.
Kudos to Josh.
Not only did he stop some crackhead babysellers, but he rose above the whole ‘teen challenge’ thing.
Biased, yes, I am. I had very BAC adoptive parents, and spent my time from 6-16 going to church 2-3 times per week, being forced to attend ‘youth for christ’ meetings one day a week after school, attending youth bible studies at least one evening a week, and spending a couple of weeks every summer at church camp.
Meaning, that between 6-16, I spent a lot of time avoiding being molested, from everyone from the pastor’s son, to my camp counselors. Since my a-parents never discussed molestation, I really was lucky that I somehow intrinsically knew to refuse the various offers/pressures I was presented with. Probably only because of the abuse I received from my b-mother until I was adopted.
And, only until age 17, when my a-brother assaulted me and attempted to molest me, at which point I moved out. That didn’t go over so well, since he was, and 25 years later, still is a stellar example of a BAC.
So, yes, I am surprised when anyone from a conservative or religious background does the right thing. Because it’s not usual. So bravo to Josh. I am curious about the whole ‘because he lost a child’ thing, though…..fits in with everything I saw my religious peers doing- getting knocked up and all.
As far as DCF-
No, hopefully they won’t sell the baby…
But I am not going to bet that they won’t give the baby back to the POS. I have personal experience with this, in that CDF repeatedly gave me back to my POS b-parents from birth to age 6. So, yeah, I’m a little biased, and don’t have much faith in the wisdom of returning neglected/abused children to their b-families. Mostly because it only hurts the children, and the POS don’t deserve it.
I’ll check back on this to see how soon they return the baby ‘for their best interests’.
Right.
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I know, the church guys are usually the worst ones, stay after sister, id like to talk to you and minister to you, i seem to feel you need it, then their nasty touchy feely hands will be all over you and your just trying to get the hell out of there…
Couldn’t they just have sold sex for money? I mean that’s the common thing around junkies. At least the people I got high with. that’s what they’d do. most of the time just have sex with the connect for like anywhere from a 20 sack to an 8-ball.
Well thank God they got the baby out of their hands. These meth heads seem to be lost causes, how sad they ruined their lives. maybe should be sterilized ??
yet another sad story of how drugs will take over everything else in your life
shell be sellin her next baby also…just watch…
Mandy-
Why in the world would you think there’ll be a ‘next baby’?
Oh, yeah… that’s the standard POS script, eh? Her oven is probably already ‘bunnin’, IYKWIM.
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Forget hell, just sterilize both of them.
you never know…
You’re right, you never know. Good story, yeah? I’m her mother. Ask me where she is. :)
bunnin….ha ha that always makes me laugh. you know when people say that there’s something bakin in the oven in reference to a pregnant chick. IT really cracks me up. ha ha ha ha
Actually I wish more meth heads would try to sell their babies. Handing over your kid to a completely random stranger is going to land them in better care than being raised by a bunch of junkies.
Maybe I should start a non-profit: give up your kids and get sterilized and we’ll give you $1000 to fill your body with poison and at the same time make sure your kids wind up with someone who will actually give a crap about them.
you might as well throw in the crack heads, heroine addicts and abusive alcholics.
glory, whats BAC?
Dark Marksun-
Um, yeah, but make it $1000 in DRUGS, not cash.
Wait- that’s not enough. Make it $5000 in drugs.
We don’t want to just be carrying them over til their next drug scam… give them enough to take themselves out all at once. For some reason I don’t think druggies would be very good at rationing their junk out for very long.
I think there should be a one-strike parenting rule- if you abuse, molest or abandon your child even once, your parenting ends, and both cell donors get snippy-snipped, as well as having all other children, even if not abused, taken away. Forever.
Then, disallow people to adopt any children from outside the US if there are any adoptable children available here. Save foster parenting for short-term housing while in the process of adoption, instead of long-term warehousing or major financial gain. I’m kind of sick of people who have soooooo much love for children that they want to adopt. What they mean is that they have love for only certain ages, colours and sexes of children. I laugh at people who think that adopting asian children from overseas, (when they have no clue who the bioparents were, or how mentally healthy they were) guarantees them a child free from misbehaviour. Or the people who adopt children from the orphanages in Romania, because they look so caucasian. Guess they never heard of attachment disorder?
I love my children more than anything, which is good. But I know myself well enough to know that I do not like children in general enough to be eager to adopt just any old kid. I’d adopt some of my children’s friends that I like, maybe, but that’s it. I wish adoptive people would be more honest about their preferences.
Obviously, the US needs to seriously revamp our adoption processes, fostering programs, and child protection services. They should start by not giving children back to abusive/neglectful homes. I was in 2 different foster homes, an orphanage, and had been returned to my biomother 3 times before I was finally adopted at age 6. I should have been adopted out the day I was born, which was the first time I was taken away from her.
Parents who are incapable of parenting should have no rights to their children, and should not have the luxury of creating further children. They should also stop paying for longterm foster care, and instead offer a permanent tax credit for families who adopt their fostered children. This eliminates ‘collectors’ who just want to collect a foster check, and encourages adoption by people who are employed and could care for more children if they received more tax credits.
Punish the evildoers, reward the good people. So simple.
I’d also like to suggest that people who’ve had their children removed be forced to pay child support into the system, but that’s probably more than most people’d like. Also, force inmates who have children to work in prisons, then garnish their wages for child support, too. Let them fund the children’s protection services for a change, since they’re the ones who used them.
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Oops… and Disaster, BAC stands for born-again xians.
Xians meaning- Christians.
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oh ^^k thanks for telling me ^^
so then what is a b-mother or a-mother
Eek. Sorry. I guess I shouldn’t assume that all forums use the same abreviations….
b-mother = birth mother or biological mother, father
a-parent, a-mom, a-dad = adoptive parent, mom, dad
I don’t personally have any, but I always assume when other people say ‘s-mom or s-dad’ that they mean a step-parent.
Don’t ask me what it means when people say Dh, dd, dsd…. etc. I think someone told me once that the ‘d’ stood for ‘dear’, as in ‘dear husband’, etc. That’s making things more complicated than I need.
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he is not the babies father and i know for a fact it was all a big misunderstanding. i know them both. she was under the influence which is
he is not the babies father and i know for a fact this was all a big misunderstanding. i know them both. she was under the influence which is not an excuse by any means but you have to know maghen to understand her actions. people commented on the babies looks and she said “want to buy her”…not meaning it seriously. she would of never done it. she is a great mother to her child and takes excellent care of my kids when and if i ever needed her too. she has a alcohol problem and always has. please say a prayer she gets her crap together.
man..knowing that she’s an alcoholic AND a drug user you still allowed your children to stay with her…wow.
As much as I hate to admit…..Iam with u Brittany…..when u get a little R.E.M.
U think well!
As for “her friend” ur a loser and I hope u dont have children…….U sound like a piece of work ….Blind work.. Get a “special dog” ASS-9!
U go to Hell too or learn to be more attentive!……..STUPID!!!!!!!……No name chicken.
Hey her friend…I just read ur comment again…I didnt think u could sound more like a fool….until I read ur CRAP ASS story again …..Damn u r dumb as a post!!!!
at least “her friend” know how to spell. maybe you should go back to class. ;)
At least “her friend” KNOWS how to spell.
Who needs to go back to school?
“Her friend” needs to leave the hills or the park and read a book or something….
I really hope “her friend” replies…..I wanna rip into that sorry excuse for a mother and woman.
Actually, it probably would have been better if they HAD sold their kid than to have the child live with them anymore.
I can’t believe so many people voted ‘no’ for these POS. Especially the mother.
and I love the post where ‘her friend’ says it was all just a big misunderstanding. Sure it was.
I’ve tried my share of drugs but never meth. ive been reading a lot of stories lately where people are tweeked out on this shit and abuse their kids. Sorry, but I dont think thats an excuse. i think these people were fucked up in the head BEFORE they got high, and the drugs just made it worse.
You know.. when my daughter was born, a nurse came up to me quietly and told me to take “extra care” with her, because she was a blonde haired, blue eyed one. This nurse told me that “desirable” babies like that are worth $50,000!!! I don’t think she was being discriminatory, I think she was stating a fact, and it made sense.
So these two retards couldn’t sell the baby for a hit of meth?
Seems to me that if I wanted to sell a baby, I would look in the classified ads of the local paper, for “adoption” ads. I guarantee that anyone desperate enough to advertise like that would be willing to buy the baby for a hell of a lot more than $30.
Truth be told, the baby would have stood a hell of a better chance in life if the dumb fucks had done that. No matter what, that child is probably doomed now.
Thank God the someone thought to call the police before a big, dirty child raper came along.
Poor child.
My sister in law did this so I feel like I have every right to judge this crappy mother. I would never even joke about someone buying my child. You have no idea about people these days and you could be talking to a stalker. And whoever it was that said that she was an alcoholic but she let her watch her children need her children removed as well.
You’re a princess. Seriously, apply for status.
God love you!