Question

Claim: Mother Teresa sold babies.

Source: https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/scottythekid/3038635473136856990

Answer 1

This claim is false. It has been clarified by multiple sources. As per Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-trafficking-baby/mother-teresa-charity-home-sold-babies-in-india-idUSKBN1JV1HS), Mother Teresa's charity home was involved with child trafficking. AP news (https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-mother-teresa-charity-205334220046) found out that "a nun and a worker were arrested for allegedly selling a baby to an adoptive couple", but it was more than 20 years after Mother Teresa's death.

Answer 2

This is false.

This was fact-checked by the AP. They prove that the claim of Mother Teresa selling babies is being "conflated" with the case of an Indian woman named Anima Indwar, who is a member of the Missionaries of Charity: the same order Mother Teresa was part of. 

In 2018, 21 years after Mother Teresa's death, Indwar sold a baby from her order's shelter to a couple for 120,000 rupees. Three other investigations of Indwar selling other children are ongoing. Mother Teresa played no part in this.

Evidence: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-mother-teresa-charity-205334220046

Answer 3

This claim is false.

According to the Associated Press, while an eastern Indian shelter run by her charity was found guilty in 2018 for selling a baby, this activity was recorded twenty years post Mother Teresa's death, which would absolve her of involvement. The Associated Press credits a "popular Instagram post recycling old misinformation about the late Mother Teresa" as the source of the claim (https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-mother-teresa-charity-205334220046). BBC News corroborates this explanation (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44722755), isolating the incident as "A woman working at MOther Teresa's Missionaries of Chairty in...Jharkhand has been arrested for allegedly selling a 14-day-old baby", a providing the context of changing adoption policies in India.

Answer 4

This is false. USA Today also did a fact-checking article on this claim and found that the source of the news had no evidence to back it up. The claim was put under the genre of "satanism". There may be some confusion as facilities founded by the late Mother Teresa have been investigated because other nuns are accused of child trafficking.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/11/fact-check-mother-teresa-not-faucis-mother-child-trafficker/5566184001/

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629681931/late-mother-teresas-order-investigated-for-child-trafficking-in-india