“She’s a miracle baby,” the
35-year-old mother said yesterday. “But still, what on Earth happened here?”
What happened is that
baby Nmachi is
a blond, blue-eyed white baby born to two black Nigerian immigrant parents at a
London hospital.
“The first thing I said was, ‘What
the flip?’ ” said the father, Ben Ihegboro. “We both just sat there after the
birth staring at her for ages — not saying anything.”
He quickly sought to dispel any
speculation.
“Of course she is mine. My wife is
true to me,” the 44-year-old customer service adviser said. “Even if she hadn’t
been, the baby still wouldn’t look like that.”
Genetics experts don’t believe in
miracles, but they didn’t have any simple answers to the mystery of baby
Nmachi. Instead, they offered three theories:
She’s the result of a gene mutation
unique to her. If that is the case, Nmachi would pass the gene to her children
— and they, too, would likely be white.
She’s the product of long-dormant
white genes, passed on to her by her parents, that might have been carried by
their predecessors for generations without surfacing until now.
While doctors have said Nmachi is
not an outright albino, or lacking in all pigment, they added that the child
may have some kind of mutated version of the genetic condition and that her
skin could darken over time.
all this one na story eee, d woman dor go play away match
ReplyDeletewow, i wouldnt having that kind of child o
ReplyDeletekilode??? for wetin??? even if that baby black e nor go resemble the papa.
ReplyDeletei would advice the maan to go for a dna test, dat baby doesnt look his
ReplyDeleteand thats how my business??? e put food for my table?
ReplyDeletena only god know wetin i go do if i be the man. i rest my case sha
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