A 20-year-old mother who tried to sell her baby online wants to see her son again. "I want to make things right. I miss him. I don't know if I will be allowed to see him but I want to," she said yesterday after she was sentenced to house arrest for three years and given a suspended five-year jail term.She pleaded guilty to contravening the Human Trafficking Act last year by advertising the sale of her 19-month-old son on classifieds website Gumtree in October.She was arrested when she proceeded to sell him for R5 000 in a trap set by police.The woman, who cannot be named because the child may not be identified, peeped through a head scarf she used to cover her face throughout her sentencing at the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court."I am happy because now I will be getting help," she said, referring to the sentence that includes community service and attending programmes determined by the Mental Health Society.Magistrate Rose Mogwera said yesterday that the woman's diminished culpability, extremely low intellect, remorse and socioeconomic background were among the compelling and substantial circumstances that justified a lesser sentence than the prescribed R100-million fine or life imprisonment for human trafficking.She said the woman's crime was not, strictly speaking, a case of human trafficking.In her plea explanation last year the young mother said one of her two boyfriends accepted responsibility and began paying child support until DNA tests revealed he was not the father.She claimed that he demanded a refund of the R24000 he had paid towards supporting the child. Then she put her child up for sale.Clinical psychological assessments showed the woman had a low intellectual and emotional potential and her botched crime showed her "poor ability to solve problems in her life".The child is in a place of safety...