Kenya: "Miracle babies" DNA results to be tabled in court 3 November

Original Source: The Standard web site, Nairobi

BBC Monitoring International Reports

The long awaited "miracle babies" claimant parents' DNA results are to be tabled before the court today.

Director of Medical Services, Dr James Nyikal, said the results were ready and had been handed over to the police. "The results are ready. They are with the police who are our clients," he said. The outcome will finally tell who the real parents of the "miracle babies" are.

The Criminal Investigations Department's forensic experts collected the DNA samples from more than 15 claimant parents in August this year. They were then handed over to the Government Chemist, who carried out the matching tests.

According to the DNA results released in August, Mrs Mary Deya's DNA matched with only one child's, casting doubts on who were the parents of the other eight children found at her Mountain View estate home.

As for 11 babies who were found at Deya's follower, Michael Odera's home in Nairobi's Komarock estate, none of the DNAs matched his.

London-based Archbishop Gilbert Deya's wife was charged with stealing a baby at the notorious Pumwani Maternity Hospital, Nairobi. She was charged alongside a British national, Ms Miriam Nyeko and Ms Rose Kiserem.

They are accused of stealing an unnamed child, alias Naomi Deya, on or about February this year.

The Odera's were charged with stealing Christopher Ihugo Mbugua on January 21, 2000, with intentions of depriving him of the mother, Mrs Lucy Wamaitha Ondieki.

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