INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The couple accused in a scheme to buy a baby have a history of trouble, police said.

Mike and Debbie Overby, who police say made arrangements with another couple to buy their unborn baby, are both convicted felons in their 50s. Mike is a convicted child molestor. Debbie is on probation for child neglect from 2009, when she kept her 10-year-old son in a filthy home. Those convictions would prevent them from adopting through an agency.

Police said they took in Rose Faucett, who was pregnant and homeless. Police said Faucett has a history of prostitution. When she said she was giving the baby up for adoption, the Overbys told her they would give her $300 after the baby was born to go out and live on her own. In exchange, they would get to keep the baby, and Mike Overby would forge the document saying he was the father.

Police said Debbie even told Rose “she would adopt the child if she could, but couldn’t because she had a felony conviction, however she would be willing to have her sign over guardianship.”

They sealed the deal with a handwritten agreement and temporary guardianship agreement, police said. It was even notarized. Debbie’s dad, who introduced the two women disagrees with the accusations, saying, “There is no truth to this.”

Details on Mike Overby’s molestation case are unavailable. 24-Hour News 8 uncovered the case is from the 1980s and the file is closed. Mike Overby, who is now dating his sister-in-law after her husband died, told police “he did not want Rose to have the baby because he did not want the baby to be on the streets.”

When police tracked down the biological father, Phillip Hester, 58, he admitted he knew the paternity affidavit had been forged but “he did not have a problem with it because he did not want anything to do with the child.”

Probation officers were tipped off by relatives of the couple accused of trying to buy the baby, who overheard conversations between the two women during family visits.

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