Trafficked child no miracle, judge rules

[Moloch]

Child traffickers in Kenya, and not the power of prayer, were responsible for delivering a so-called "miracle baby" to an infertile couple in the UK, a high court judge ruled today.

Justice Ernest Ryder today ordered an investigation to be undertaken to find the true parents of a one-year-old child, known as C, who was taken into care in November last year after tests proved his DNA did not match either of his supposed parents. At the conclusion of the hearing to determine C's future, the judge said the woman who claimed to be C's mother "was deceived into thinking that she had given birth ... she was seriously assaulted and a live child who had been born to another family was presented to her as her child."

Mr Ryder rejected claims by Gilbert Deya, a self-styled archbishop and leader of Britain's fastest growing religious movement, that C was the product of divine intervention. Mr Deya had said C was one of many babies born through the power of prayer to infertile women in his 36,000-strong UK congregation. Mr Deya, whose ministry is based in Peckham, south London, is fighting efforts to extradite him to Kenya as part of an inquiry into an alleged international child-trafficking ring.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,1350053,00.html

[ClintonTyree]

1. So the UK has it's own....................

group of seriously insane Fundies as well. I'm glad to see that we're not the only country afflicted by these lunatics.

[Gyre]

2. Amen to that!

'I'm glad to see that we're not the only country afflicted by these lunatics.' BTW, should be infected, not afflicted.

Gyre

[VegasWolf]

3. The "God changed my DNA" argument might have worked in GA.