CAIRO: Eissa Hamada Mohamed and his wife had lost all hope of finding their newborn who disappeared three years ago, that is, until they discovered through a strange twist of fate that their son was adopted by a lawyer.
Al Akhbar daily, which reported the incident, described it as one of the oddest cases of infant kidnapping.
It all started when Mohamed, a resident of Sharqiya, was injured in an accident in Cairo and couldn’t find anyone to come and clear the hospital bills other than his wife Nagah El Sayed, who was nine months pregnant at the time.
El Sayed rushed to the city to help her husband, but went into labor on the way and asked the taxi driver to take her to the nearest hospital.
At the hospital, thinking that the taxi driver was the infant’s father, the nurses in charge handed him the newborn, who took the baby boy and disappeared.
Shocked, El Sayed assumed that the driver had kidnapped the baby with the intention of selling him.
Along with her husband, she started the search for their newborn. In Cairo, they reported the incident at every police station. But after losing all hope of finding their son, they went back to their village.
Three years later they received a call from the taxi driver who told them he had been looking for El Sayed ever since. He told her that when he lost all hope of reaching, he left the child in Heliopolis, close to the Pakistani Embassy in Cairo.
Inquiring near the location of the embassy, the couple was told that a newborn which was found in the area was handed over to the orphanage. Referring to the orphanage in question, they were told that the child was adopted by a lawyer.
But the lawyer refused to hand over the child to the couple.
The case was referred to the Heliopolis prosecutor’s office that ordered a DNA test to prove the couple’s paternity.
