Kenyan Gilbert Deya denies he is involved in child trafficking
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A “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2239 baby” was the victim of child traffickers motivated by financial greed, a UK judge has ruled.
The one-year-old, known as C, was taken into care after tests revealed his DNA did not match that of his “parents”.
His alleged mother said she bore him with the aid of an evangelist who says he aids infertile couples by prayer.
At a High Court hearing in London, Mr Justice Ryder said the “birth” helped generate funds for the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4008 preacher from a “deceived congregation”.
The UK-based Kenyan evangelist Gilbert Deya is wanted in Kenya over allegations of child trafficking, which he denies.
The judge said that during the so-called birth of C his “mother”, known as Mrs E, was seriously assaulted, “and a live child who had been born to another family was presented to her as her child.”
Mr and Mrs E are members of the UK’s fastest growing religious movement, The Gilbert Deya Ministries.
Mr Deya is a self-styled archbishop who claims babies have been born to infertile mothers through the power of prayer. The church has 36,000 members in the UK, as well as branches in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Mrs E, 38, told the High Court C was the second of three miracle babies born to her after prayers in the church.
The first died soon after birth in Kenya and the third was taken by Kenyan authorities.
Mrs E said medical tests in London had not shown her to be pregnant but Gilbert Deya’s wife, Mary, had taken her to a doctor in Kenya who had confirmed that she was.
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