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October 7, 2011

Police say cash and drugs were traded for baby

One of four suspects arrested in child-selling case

By Mike Fletcher Tribune crime reporter

Kokomo — Sheriff deputies arrested one of four people believed to be involved in a child-selling case in which a baby was traded for $17,000 and drugs.

Deputies arrested Stephen P. Lynch Jr., 31, Thursday afternoon on a warrant charging him with a Class A felony conspiracy to deal in a narcotic and D felonies conspiracy to commit child selling and profiting from an adoption.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Howard Superior Court 1, Stephen Lynch, along with another person, gave another couple $13,000, a 1996 Lincoln Mark VIII valued at $3,531 and numerous drugs in exchange for the couple’s now 2-year-old son.

The other three people have yet to be charged in the case.

Lynch also was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia when deputies went to a residence at 4162 N. 1200 West, to serve the child-selling warrant on Lynch.

Lynch is being held in the Howard County jail on a $75,000 bail with no 10 percent permitted. If convicted of the more serious A felony drug charge, Lynch could face up to 50 years. But on the child-selling charge, he could only face up to three years in jail, according to state law.

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