Seeing their baby daughter, Angela Ihegboro, the mother, asked herself, "What on earth happened here?"
The blue-eyed, white baby had just been born to two Nigerian immigrants at a London hospital, leaving both parents shocked.
On the other hand, Angela's husband, Ben Ihegboro refuses to have a DNA test, revealing that he has 'full faith' in his wife and believes she wouldn't cheat on him.
Genetics explains that this is "not just a miracle or coincidence." It also challenges the assumptions focused on 'infidelity' that would have rather been a straight-forward explanation in the past decades.
There are theories that fall into place, one of them being that the baby is a product of long-dormant white genes her parents have carried for generations without surfacing until now.
This was true in Sandra Laing's case, a South-African woman born as a black-baby, dark-skinned with afro hair into a white family. But Sandra had DNA tests performed to confirm that her parents were indeed her real parents. Despite being classified as white, she was shunned by the white-community for her skin color. Her story was an inspiration and was later turned into a film titled, 'Skin,' premiered in London in 24th July, 2009.
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Meanwhile, the baby’s father has been dispelling speculation. "Of course she’s mine," he emphasized. "My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn’t been, the baby still wouldn’t look like that."
Watch their chat with The Sun on Youtube.
This is not the only time a black father with a white-born baby have refused to get a DNA test to prove his wife's innocence to the world. In 2007, another Nigerian couple living in Middlesborough, Ethelbert and Nkemakonam Ofor had a white baby boy named Emmanuel with green eyes and fair hair, while their first two daughters are both black. The father revealed that some 'cruel' people were urging him to get a DNA test, but he refused, while letting genetics study their son, just as the other couple have chosen to do.
Neither of the two couples have white-genetics in their family.
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