article_snippet.sent: Illicit operation: Gertrude Pitkanen would sell newborn babies to adoptive parents for as little as $100 in Butte, Montana Montana .
article_snippet.sent: For as little as $100, Gertrude Pitkanen Gertrude Pitkanen took babies from babies mother's arms seconds after babies were born and handed babies to babies adoptive parents.
article_snippet.sent: As the infants were driven to the infants new homes, the families were sometimes forced to throw the families afterbirth out of the window because the families were removed so quickly.
article_snippet.sent: The transaction was expected to last just a few minutes, so Sue Docken adoptive's mother's husband was told to leave the car running as her adoptive's mother's husband waited outside.
highlights_snippet.sent: For around 30 years, Gertrude Pitkanen gave newborns to adoptive parents for cash .
  