Anya Soldatova was “creeped out” last Saturday when a stranger offered to buy her two-year-old daughter Eva as she was walking along the Sliema promenade and kept upping the price until he reached €30,000.

“I thought it was a bad joke and smiled at him. But he never smiled back and remained really serious and kept offering to pay more and more,” the 31-year-old Russian mother told this newspaper.

Once she got home she posted what just happened on the Facebook group, ‘Expats: Foreigners in Malta’, and people started telling her she should file a police report as this was “scary stuff”.

She yesterday informed police what happened after people urged her to report her chilling experience.

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