AN EIGHT-year-old refugee girl was taken into care after she put herself up for SALE on a popular app.
An ad featuring a photograph of the child appeared on the online market platform Shpock for the oddly exact price of $45,448 (£37,372).
Police in the German town of Löhne believe the Lebanese girl may have posted the ad herself.
They were made aware after a concerned local man saw it and alerted authorities.
The girl's two siblings, three and twelve, were also taken by child services from their parents who deny involvement, German news site The Local reported.
Officers seized mobile phones and other electronic devices from the home before the children were allowed to return.
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A police spokesperson said they are in the process of analysing phone data to discover how the unnamed girl was able to post an ad on the app, which is available in the UK.
They are going on her testimony to officers in which she said she put herself up for sale, but police have not specified a reason.
Bernd Poggemöller, mayor of Löhne, said he was shocked to find out what had happened.
"I would have expected that there would have been controls to stop this from happening", he said.
It comes just months after another refugee man in Germany put his one-month-old baby up for sale on eBay for 5,000 euro (£4,495).
He said he did it for a joke, but a court ruled in October that he could only see his child under supervision.
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