Yeah I know you wrote this years ago...but I just got around to watching this film yesterday and that part of the movie was utterly ridiculous. For so many reasons. First, who the heck would write a receipt for a criminal endeavor?? Laughable. But beyond that, the plot device made NO sense. No one is going to pay good money to buy/adopt an older child on the black market for ADOPTION. We all know that healthy babies are in high demand and some people would pay huge amounts of money to cut the red tape and long wait involved with newborn adoptions--but once a child is past infancy/toddler age, they are past the age of being in high demand for adoption. No one would buy Bunny for adoption purposes. Now, had it been selling her into the sex trade industry, yes. That WOULD make sense and does happen even in the US, sadly. (again, though, no one would write a receipt: "$1000 received on 8/29/15 for the purchase of one healthy white female child, signed Evil Sex Trafficker.")
The other thing that made no sense to me, the child had NO negative effects from being sold by her mother? The police don't want her to see a psychiatrist or doctor or victim witness advocate before returning her home? She just trots in and hugs her daddy and goes back to her normal life, without ever looking sad or confused or anything? She never asks her dad why mom made the decision to sell her? Sure, the movie makes it clear that Bunny is a "strange" child in some ways, but that would have been true just from having Petal as her mom and a total sad sack as a dad. No need to sell her to make that point.
Maybe they returned to the subject and showed some lasting damage from being sold toward the end of the movie--I was watching it on regular TV and someone knocked on my front door toward the end of the film, and I missed a couple of scenes. If so, feel free to ignore my rant...except the part about the receipt.
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