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DNA: boy belongs to captive
04/01/2008 19:42 - (SA)
Bogota - DNA analysis indicates a 3-year-old boy living in a Bogota foster home is the child of a woman held captive by leftist rebels for nearly six years, an official in Colombia's federal prosecutor's office said on Friday.
The results suggest President Alvaro Uribe was right - and that the leftist rebels misled Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the world when they promised to release the boy along with his mother Clara Rojas and another hostage from their jungle camps.
"There's a very high probability he's Emmanuel," said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and thus spoke on condition of anonymity. "The DNA of the boy is the same as his alleged grandmother."
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, promised two weeks ago to release the boy fathered by a leftist rebel, along with Rojas and former congresswoman Consuelo Gonzalez.
"But the rebels never told Chavez where to pick them up, and the release fell apart after Uribe made the surprising announcement that the boy may have been living in a foster home for more than a year.
Chief federal prosecutor Mario Iguaran was expected to confirm the findings of the DNA analysis at a Friday press conference in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta.
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