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Mum left 'mortified' after accidentally listing baby son for sale instead of sofa on Facebook group

A mum has been left 'mortified' after she accidentally listed her son for sale.

People were in stitches after the mum, who meant to list her sofa for sale, accidentally put a picture of her son up instead.

Lucy Battle, from Yorkshire, said she was "mortified" after she included a picture of her baby on her selling post under the caption 'need gone today' on a local Facebook group.

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The post went viral with people saying her mistake had 'made their day'.

Lucy, 20, recently bought a new sofa and decided to give away her old one by posting it on Facebook.

But instead of listing the sofa, Lucy accidentally made a photo of her seven-month-old son Oscar the headline image - making it look like she was giving him away instead of the sofa.

She told LeedsLive : "I just somehow managed to upload the wrong photo when I was choosing them from my camera roll and unfortunately it was of Oscar!

"I realised when everyone started commenting and messaging me and then I couldn't delete it either.

"It worked out though because one of the messages was someone actually enquiring about the sofa! But most of them were people making jokes about me giving away my son.

Hundreds of people were quick to make jokes about her mistake.

Mandy Lyles wrote: "Can I swap for a teenager?"

Sarah Wilkinson commented: "How's he at washing up?"

Tom Howell joked: "What's he like with other babies?"

After realising her mistake, Lucy clarified that she meant the sofa rather than Oscar.

"Thanks all for being nice though and understanding this was a genuine mistake," she wrote.

"I don't want to give away my child."

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