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Paul Marquez, 22, is accused of trying to sell a two-month-old baby on Craigslist because her mom wouldn't spend enough time with him.

The scene outside suspect Paul Marquez's apartment at the Todt Hill Houses complex, at 275 Westwood Ave.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Castleton Corners man was so annoyed that his potential love interest's newborn daughter was taking up too much of her time that he decided to post an ad selling the baby on Craigslist, police allege.

Paul Marquez, 22, posted the ad twice on the website's "baby+kids" section, according to law enforcement sources, set the price at $100, and gave out the mother's number to a possible buyer who contacted him.

The first ad, posted on July 29, was flagged by Craigslist and taken down, but the second, posted a day later, stayed online longer, sources said.

"Heyy I have a 2 month old baby name [redacted] she loves to play nd have her little fun but there is only 1 problem, the doctor said that she has asthma nd if she turns a certain way she can stop breathing, she's really getting on my nerves nd I don't want her Please email me," Marquez wrote, according to sources.

That spurred two calls to the NYPD's 121st Precinct, and when someone notified the city's Administration for Children's Services, the NYPD's Computer Crimes Squad got involved, issuing a series of subpoenas that tracked the posting back to Marquez's apartment in the Todt Hill Houses complex, at 275 Westwood Ave., sources said.

It turned out Marquez, who works in the stock room at the Staten Island Mall's Victoria's Secret store, was chatting with the woman online, and had gone out with her a few times, sources said. He got a photo of the infant girl by exchanging a photo of his own 2-year-old daughter, whom he had fathered with another woman, sources said.

Court papers allege that he posted the ad to "get back at" the woman, identified in court papers as Katie Devalle, and gave out her phone number in the process.

The woman told a detective that she received a call based on the ad by someone offering to buy the young girl, court papers allege. Police are still investigating the identity of the caller, authorities said.

Marquez wanted to see more of the woman, but she spent most of her time working or taking care of the baby, the sources said.

"The reason why I decided to put this post (up) was because I got bored and wanted to get a little laugh and a little kick out of it," Marquez said, according to sources.

Instead, he was arrested -- Marquez was arraigned in Stapleton Criminal Court Thursday on charges of second-degree aggravated harassment, endangering the welfare of a child, and two counts of a social services law violation called "authority to place or board out children," according to information from District Attorney Daniel Donovan's office.

The charges are misdemeanors punishable by a year in jail.

Public records show Marquez remains in Rikers Island and still hasn't made the $1,000 bail set on Thursday. He's slated to return to court Tuesday.

On Monday afternoon, a police officer with the NYPD's 122nd Precinct answered the door of Marquez's apartment, where sources say he lives with his mother, and said, "They don't want any of you guys around here anymore. Thank you."

A few minutes later, two officers emerged to stand sentinel outside the city Housing Authority apartment building and prevent reporters from going inside.