How Could You? Hall of Shame-Alan Hoyt case

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From Pearland, Texas, adoptive father Ronald Hoyt, 45, “was arrested last week after a sting operation in which the man allegedly asked for a $1,000 check and the 2006 Nissan Titan in exchange for allowing another man to adopt 16-year-old Alan Hoyt. 

Hoyt adopted the teen when he was a young boy, but the relationship turned rocky and the older man would regularly lock Alan out of his house.

There were also times when the teen would go hungry.

Last year, Alan met Michael Gonzales who gave him a home and became his managing conservator.

In December, Gonzales decided he wanted to adopt Alan.

‘He didn’t have anyone who cared about him. He was a lost soul,’ Gonzales told ABC13 Eyewitness News.

It was then that Ronald Hoyt proposed the transaction in text messages.

Gonzales’ attorney, named Gonzalez, showed a message that reads: ‘Before I sign any adoption papers, I want 2 years of subsidy for Alan’.

Attorney Gonzalez says Hoyt signed the deal last week with an undercover Pearland police officer in the room.

Security cameras were rolling on Friday when he returned to the Pearland law office and was arrested.

The man, who had previously worked for a glass manufacturer, was briefly jailed before posting $25,000 bail Saturday. He is charged with felony ‘sale or purchase of a child’. “

Man accused of trying to sell his adopted son, 16, for $1,000 and a Nissan truck

[Daily Mail 1/22/16 by GIANLUCA MEZZOFIORE ]

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