- Andalusia denounce the Andalusian Health Service to discover that a baby born by assisted fertilization is not the biological child of the father
Four people have been arrested in Seville for crimes of illegal trafficking or sale of child and falsification of documents after Social Affairs of the Virgen del Rocío Maternal and Child Hospital reported the entry of a parturient who had presented documentation that apparently belonged to another person. The Juvenile Prosecutor's Office has decreed that the newborn be handed over to the Junta de Andalucía.
The four detainees had planned that once this woman gave birth to the newborn, she would be given to a couple who could not have children in exchange for a high economic consideration.
What "a priori" these four people intended to do was a surrogacy treatment, where couples who cannot have children hire a woman to gestate their baby and deliver it later in exchange for financial compensation. This type of maternity in Spain is "illegal", as the Police recalls in a press release.
After various efforts, the investigators learned that the case was treated by health personnel as "poorly controlled pregnancy", since there were no follow-ups or previous tests. Likewise, in the clinical history of the parturient there were records of having requested an in vitro fertilization treatment when she could not have children, "facts that were relevant to presuppose that she was posing as another person".
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