A newspaper said Monday that Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch man who is serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman, has impregnated a woman while imprisoned in Lima.
The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf cited Van der Sloot's lawyer Maximo Altez
as saying the pregnancy is past its third month, and Van der Sloot
himself as having confirmed the news in a telephone call on Saturday.
"A test has proved" the pregnancy, the paper quoted Van der Sloot as saying.
The
woman, identified by the paper only as "Leidi," was said to have become
pregnant during an unsupervised visit with Van der Sloot. It was not
clear whether that is allowed or possible under Peruvian prison rules.
Media in Peru last year identified a woman named Leydi Figueroa Uceda
as Van der Sloot's girlfriend, and said they had conceived a son
together, but she denied it. Altez then described the pair as "friends."
In De Telegraaf Van der Sloot
said "Leidi" uses the birth control pill but had apparently forgotten
to take it and she would not have an abortion due to her Catholic faith.
He said he didn't have DNA proof the child is his, but he believes it
to be.
Van der Sloot is a self-described liar, having repeatedly confessed to killing U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in 2005, and later retracting the confessions. He is the last person known to have seen her alive.
He could resist extradition to the United States,
where is wanted in the Holloway case, if he obtains Peruvian
nationality. That would be a possibility if he becomes the father of a
Peruvian child or if he marries a Peruvian citizen.
Van der Sloot is appealing his conviction.
Source: YahooNews
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