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This is an archive article published on May 29, 2008

Indo-British couple dump baby girls

A British couple abandoned their twin baby girls in the UK because they wanted a male child.

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A British couple, who travelled to India for fertility treatment, abandoned their twin babies in the UK because they wanted a male child.

The mother aged 59 and father, 72, conceived in India with fertility treatment and dumped their twin babies in a British hospital after finding out they were girls.

According to the Sun daily of Britain, the couple told horrified medics they did not want the wrong sex babies immediately after the Caesarean section in Wolverhampton.

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The report said the husband also wanted to know how soon it would be before his wife was fit enough to fly out again for further IVF in the hope of getting a boy to continue the family name.

The couple are of Indian descent but British citizens living in Birmingham. According to tabloid, the twins, who are less than two weeks old, were then transferred to a central NHS hospital in Birmingham.

This is Britain in the 21st century,” a shocked NHS insider told the tabloid.

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