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A distraught mum handed her nine-day-old daughter to a stranger she met online in exchange for £34, police say.
CCTV, released by police, shows the deeply distressing last few moments 25-year-old Inna Petrova has with her tiny child, clutching her tightly, before she hands her over.
The unemployed painter at one point can be seen turning her back on Natalia Zhdanova who has flown 1,970 miles from St Petersburg to Omsk collect the baby.
But then Inna kisses her little one for the last time and hands over the child, who is cocooned in a bright pink wrap.
Natalia then used a faked birth certificate - which listed the baby as hers - to show airport security before flying back to her home city with the child, police say.