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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, Colombia's top prosecutor said 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 named Emmanuel along with his mother Clara Rojas and another hostage from their jungle camps.
“The conclusion of the scientific experts is that there's a greater probability the boy belongs to the Rojas family than to any other family,” chief federal prosecutor Mario Iguaran announced, citing an “absolute” match between the mitochondria DNA of the child and that of Rojas' mother and brother.
Rebels duped Venezuela's Chavez over hostages: Tot was in foster care for years (broken link)