Couple deny dumping twin girls

An unnamed British Indian-origin couple who had allegedly dumped their twin baby girls because they wanted a male child have denied doing so...

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.

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A follow-up report in Sun quoted the father as saying: “We’ll bring them up with love. They are my children — we love my children.” 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 said the 59-year old mother was struggling after the surgery and had been unable to be at their bedside constantly. It was claimed in the Sun report that the 72-year-old father wanted sons to carry on the family name.

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. For patient confidentiality, the identity of the family, the babies and the hospital are not being disclosed.”