Couple leave twin girls because they wanted boys · 2008-05-29 16:27
British couple who had IVF in India are believed to have dumped their twin babies in a hospital after finding out they were girls.
The mother aged 59 and the father 72, are said to have abandoned the babies after telling medics they were the “wrong sex” because they wanted boys, Daily Mail reports.
It is understood that the babies, who are now less than two weeks old, were abandoned soon after birth and have not been visited once by their parents.
The couple travelled to India for fertility treatment but returned to Britain for the birth. The twins were born by Caesarean Section at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.
Their mother – one of Britain’s oldest – reportedly discharged herself against the advice of doctors who told her she should stay in hospital for a week after her operation.
She and her husband are thought to be of Indian descent but British residents living in the West Midlands.
Aftter the birth in Wolverhampton, the children were transferred to another hospital in Birmingham.
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