Paris prosecutors have arrested a 27-year-old mother on charges of human trafficking who allegedly sold her daughter to a 70-year-old man for 90,000 euros while looking for a father who fled with a minor.

According to a French newspaper on Wednesday Parisianthe story was revealed on February 19, when cinema workers in the French capital saw a man caressing his breasts minor12 years old, in front of parents.

He suspiciousoriginally from Toulon (south of France), was a friend of the family and offered them about 90,000 euros in exchange for the lowest payments he made on a regular basis, according to the investigations of the brigade protection of minors (BPM) from the Paris Prosecutor’s Office published by Le Parisien.

The man confessed to kissed and caressed a minoralthough he assured that these were “tokens of affection” and that the money was sent “out of generosity.”

Both mother They, like the seventy-year-old, were arrested immediately after the arrival of the police, but the father managed to escape with the minor, and he continues to run.

The prosecutor’s office, which has already begun a judicial investigation, assures that the man was charged on February 22 with sexual abuse and human trafficking against minors and is in pre-trial detention.