baby farmer

Noun

baby farmer (plural baby farmers)

1. One who keeps a baby farm or does baby farming
   • In that repressive atmosphere, the “baby farmer”—usually a woman—was prepared to help an unwed mother through her time of trial . . . but only for a price.2006, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, page 12
   • But in 1926 Mrs. Nat Bass of Brooklyn, New York, felt compelled to confess her deception to her husband, and the district attorney, when the baby farmer from whom she had purchased an infant was investigated for fatally starving and beating twenty-two children.2009, Barbara Bisantz Raymond, The Baby Thief