LONDON: An unnamed British Indian-origin couple who had allegedly dumped their twin baby girls because they wanted a male child have denied doing so, saying they were committed to bringing them up “with love”.
The National Health Service (NHS) also denied a recent report in Sun daily which said that the couple had abandoned the girls because they wanted boys.
The parents had been visiting the twins at the New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, and were attentive to their needs, it said. It was claimed in the report that the 72-year-old father wanted sons to carry on the family name. The father, whose first wife died in 1981 after bringing up the couple’s only son, said, “My second wife has no child, so we went to India.”
A spokeswoman of NHS West Midlands, the region’s strategic health authority, dismissed the reports and said, “The parents are visiting their daughters while they are being cared for in hospital.The dismissed report had said that the parents, who were born in India but were British citizens living in Birmingham, had told doctors they did not want the “wrong sex” babies immediately after the children were born.
The half-brother of the twins, speaking outside his parents house in Birmingham, said, “The story has been misunderstood because of a lack of communication. My father’s English is not good and the person receiving it at the other end must have lost something in translation.”
He added that the babies were born ‘underweight’ and had to be cared for in hospital after the birth by Caesarian section.
