Baby 81 goes home
16/02/2005 09:42  - (SA)  

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Jenita Jeyarajah walks out from a courtroom with her son, Abilass Jeyarajah or "Baby 81". (Eranga Jayawardena, AP)

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Kalmunai - A Sri Lankan couple were handed back a baby tsunami survivor on Wednesday after a seven-week ordeal in which they passed a landmark DNA test to prove their parentage.

Junita and Murugpillai Jeyarajah walked out of the court carrying their only son Abilash, reunited seven weeks after the child was rescued from under a pile of garbage following the December 26 tsunami.

A nurse in the Kalmunai court room gave the child back to his mother in front of the judge, MP Moahaidein, who on Monday ordered the baby to be returned to the couple.

- AFP

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