Baby for sale in Swingsets

"IF you want this, it's $500."

Unbelievable story out of Florida -- Boca Loco.

"[I]t's helpful to know something of the case against Torocsik, a 63-year-old West Palm Beach man who was arrested in April 2007 while shopping at a Boca Raton Home Depot with his wife and then 13-month-old son.

According to his wife, Lola, she was swinging the boy in a swing set outside the store, when a man approached the set and walked around the back of it, looking at it. Lola testified she said to the man: "If you want this, it's $500."

Miscommunication is the only way to explain what followed.

To make a long story necessarily short, sheriff's deputies quickly arrived to investigate a report of a woman selling a baby.

A silent security video tape captured the confrontation.

A deputy immediately asked Torocsik to hand over the child and Torocsik refused. Within minutes, there was physical struggle between the men. Torocsik ending up being hit with a Taser gun three times, including once with the baby boy in his arms, according to two witnesses.

It took three deputies to subdue him, Torocsik all the while yelling "What have I done? What have I done wrong?" according to witnesses.

Torocsik was arrested on a felony charge of resisting arrest, later reduced to a misdemeanor. Torocsik, who owns a catering business, estimates he's since spent $60,000 on lawyers, private investigators and process servers trying to clear his name.

{County Judge Barry} Cohen noted in his comments, that there was never any suggestion that Torocsik and his wife were anything but good parents.
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Nearly three years in the court pipeline, the case has featured 24 appearances by the defendant, Peter Torocsik, through one jury trial and conviction, a reversal by a judge, and an appeal by prosecutors that resulted in a second jury trial and verdict this week, with two prosecutors assigned to the case and three days of court time.

"One of the most questionable uses of court resources," (Cohen)'s seen in his 19 years on the bench.

Hit the link for photos of the father and child.