Three Czechs convicted of attempted sale of child to British pair

Three Czech men were sentenced on Wednesday for attempting to sell a child to a British couple. The child involved was the nine-month-old daughter of one of the convicted. The three men were caught in a sting, when the couple they tried to sell the child to turned out to be a pair of British investigative journalists, reporting on the sales of children abroad. Petr Zemianek who organized the deal was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Dušan Čonka, whose task was to find a fake birth certificate for the child, was handed a three and a half year suspended sentence. Vladimir Ščasný, who lent Mr Čonka a birth certificate and photos of his daughter Karolína, was dealt a two year suspended sentence.