Paraguay: Second Paternity Scandal Hits President

by Barbara McPherson | April 24, 2009 at 08:36 am

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A second young woman has come forward to claim that former Catholic bishop Lugo, now president of Paraguay, fathered her child while he was still in the church. She delivered a son in 2002. She has demanded that Lugo respond to her paternity claim.
Ministers of Women's Affairs and Childhood and Adolescence have urged to admit that he is the father of the child.

ASUNCIÓN, Apr 20 (IPS) - Analysts in Paraguay expected Monday’s media coverage to focus on an announced shakeup in the cabinet. But reports that President Fernando Lugo fathered a second child while he was still a Roman Catholic bishop hijacked the news agenda and tarnished celebrations of the first anniversary of his historic victory at the polls.

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