DNA testing confirms Haitian couple are parents of baby sent to U.S.

[JI7]

Jenny was 4 months old when the January 12 earthquake destroyed large swaths of Haiti. Her mother was knocked unconscious in the 7.0-magnitude temblor and taken to a hospital. When she awoke, she urged her husband to go home to search for their baby.

Alexis searched through the broken rubble for four days, but found nothing. The couple says that on the fifth day, January 16, witnesses saw a cleanup crew rescue Jenny from the rubble. She reportedly was found in the arms of her baby sitter, who was dead. The witnesses got word to Devilme, who was in the hospital with her own injuries.

Rescuers apparently assumed the baby was an orphan and whisked her away to a different hospital in Port-au-Prince, one run by the University of Miami and Project Medishare, where a team of pediatricians worked desperately to keep her alive.

The DNA tests have taken more than a month because of logistical difficulties getting the test to Haiti and because of a legal dispute over whether the baby should become a ward of the state of Florida or a ward of the U.S. government, says Mark Riordan, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Children and Families.



http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/17/haiti.baby.jenny/?hpt=Sbin

[pnwmom]

1. Thank goodness for DNA tests, and for the care she was able to get in Florida

that saved her life. Glad this all worked out well.

[Solly Mack]

2. k/r

[Maru Kitteh]

3. I'm so happy for the family, that their little girl will be returned to them and that

she survived, and got such great medical care.

Win/win all the way around.

[BlueIris]

4. Happy her bio parents have been found. nt