Parent Offers Body Parts On Craigslist To Pay Off Child's Student Loans

An anonymous parent in the Boston area recently posted an ad on Craigslist offering to sell their body parts to pay off their child's student loans.

The ad detailed a person 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 200 pounds with "organs in working order." The writer offered blood, plasma, kidneys in place of the $200,000 in education bills.

My Fox Boston reports,

"Use my body for anything legal, or medically experimental," the advert said. "Simply pay off all of my children's student loans ($200,000) and you can use me anyway you need."

The post has since been taken down, but My Fox Boston offered this photo:

Comments

[angrymanspokane]

11:07 AM on 03/03/2011

Student loans should be an investment in your financial future. Too many people fall into the debt trap of financing the type of education that cannot possibly secure an adequate-paying career.

Parents (and schools) need to teach children from an early age how to make and manage money, and not rely on the hope that "someone" will "give" them a job when they eventually graduate.

Self-reliance and self-determination have become outdated concepts.

[CptFreakout]

09:25 PM on 03/02/2011

The college scam is just as sick as wall street . But until Americans are willing to fight back against the fleecing it will only get worse .

[QolourCouture]

08:53 AM on 03/01/2011

I think too many people are lacking common sense . Private lenders are making you pay for a deferment , or they are not offering deferments at ALL.Oh, and which ever one you choose, the forbearance/deferment is only for 2 years ...I know people who graduated in 2008 and are working a part-time job , or still sitting at home praying someone will give them any type of job ..

Others went back to get a Masters , only to graduate and never leave the UNEMPLOYMENT LINE ..

[QolourCouture]

08:42 AM on 03/01/2011

I can honesty say without any doubts , that I am ready to enter the sex market myself ...This year will make 2 long years of being unemployed after getting a Degree from a top Private College ..My loans are due this month and I have no clue how I am going to make the payments .Desperate times calls for DESPERATE measures ..I disagree with selling your kids , but selling yourself may be an option for now .

[CptFreakout]

09:33 PM on 03/02/2011

I say save your dignity and fight back , the upper-class have taken from us and destroyed our lives i say it's their turn and we show them we aren't serfs but people who will fight for right and each other .

[calltoaction]

04:18 PM on 02/28/2011

is this the entrepreneurial spirit republicans keep talking about? only in for profit america.

[Nicole Dixson]

11:45 AM on 02/28/2011

This must be one of those "child centered" households I keep reading about. Wow!

[Daniel Kang]

03:11 AM on 02/28/2011

OMG.. this is really wrong way to give love.. it's better to sacrifice and work hard on teaching them how to earn money..

[angrymanspokane]

10:44 AM on 03/03/2011

Well said!

[Mandles99]

12:50 AM on 02/28/2011

Wow, desperate times indeed.

[marknez21]

10:35 PM on 02/27/2011

It is HEART BREAKING. Unfortunately, we do not support our college students, many countries HIGHER EDUCATION is free.

[michelv]

12:59 AM on 02/28/2011

You are dead wrong. It's free with a living stipend.

[QolourCouture]

08:44 AM on 03/01/2011

Thank you ....I've met at least 30 kids in College and we are all unemployed ...Oh, and we graduated in 2009..Everyday its the battle of unemployed comments on Facebook , pretty sad IMO!

[marknez21]

12:08 AM on 03/02/2011

Thank you for your comment. We have to rebuild our BROKEN system.
Move on with those 30 kids.

[cragusa]

09:10 PM on 02/27/2011

Prostitution sounds like an easier way to make money from selling your body... and you'd still have both kidneys at the end of the day!!! Unless you contract Hepatitis C.

[LiveMind]

10:20 PM on 02/27/2011

And just how long do you think it would take to save $200K via prostitution? Especially if you're old enough to have a grown child? decades, likely....

[marknez21]

10:33 PM on 02/27/2011

You are sick by your comment.

[tangelan]

07:06 PM on 02/27/2011

A $200k education is pretty high end so this kid must have gotten a medical or law degree. Surely a $200k education means that this person will get a job paying more than enough to cover their own student loans. When it gets to a point where your parents are selling body parts and fluids to pay their grown child's bills it's time to cut the apron strings.

[LiveMind]

10:22 PM on 02/27/2011

maybe not. Worst case scenario, someone went to a for-profit rip-off college and took a long time to finish-- that could mean no job prospects at all, actually.

Besides, we now have a glut of lawyers and new law grads are not getting hired. It's a problem.

[michelv]

01:05 AM on 02/28/2011

Have you checked tuition at private universities lately? With room and board, you will blow through the $200K mark with a 4-year undergrad degree.

[Sang282]

03:20 PM on 02/28/2011

Regardlessof the reason, this is why you can get on a payment plan for loans, or defer if necessary. This is ridiculous

[Debbi Mihelic]

05:32 PM on 02/27/2011

People are on there offering their body parts for much less ...

[centertex8]

05:23 PM on 02/27/2011

Why doesn't her children offer themselves up? I would
never do that...should have sent them to trade school...it
would have been cheaper than $200,000!

[LiveMind]

05:15 PM on 02/27/2011

perfectly understandable.

And time to change the system.

[marknez21]

10:39 PM on 02/27/2011

We have to CHANGE our EDUCATION SYSTEM.