'Miracle Babies' Scandal Grabs Headlines
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Aug 31, 10:29 AM (ET)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court has charged a woman whose husband, an evangelical pastor, claims to make infertile women pregnant, with baby-snatching.

Mary Juma Deya was arrested 13 days ago, accused of stealing a baby girl from a maternity hospital in the capital Nairobi.

Her husband Gilbert Deya, a London-based preacher, says he can exorcise demons from women who are unable to conceive naturally by praying for them.

The "miracle babies" scandal grabbed headlines in Kenya after police found 11 children aged between five months and 12 years old living with 56-year-old Eddah Odera and her husband.

Television stations have repeatedly shown footage of the children and police have appealed for help in identifying them.

Odera said she conceived the children without having sexual intercourse with her husband Michael after Deya's wife prayed for her. Both Oderas were charged Monday with harboring an abducted teenage boy.



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