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01-11-2008, 09:48 AM
(CNN) -- A woman who was held hostage for nearly six years in Colombia waited Friday for a dramatic reunion with her 3-year-old son.
Clara Rojas gave birth to a boy, fathered by one of the rebels, two years after she was taken hostage. The insurgents took the infant away from her when he was 8 months old. Three years have passed since Rojas last saw her son; he's nearly 4 and in the custody of Colombia's child-welfare agency.
When rebels freed Rojas on Thursday, she strode into a jungle clearing and climbed aboard a helicopter with a photo of her son dangling from her neck.
"The boy is named Emanuel, but he is a gift from God," she later told Caracol Radio in Colombia. "He was the smallest and sweetest thing."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/11/colombia.hostages/index.html
Clara Rojas gave birth to a boy, fathered by one of the rebels, two years after she was taken hostage. The insurgents took the infant away from her when he was 8 months old. Three years have passed since Rojas last saw her son; he's nearly 4 and in the custody of Colombia's child-welfare agency.
When rebels freed Rojas on Thursday, she strode into a jungle clearing and climbed aboard a helicopter with a photo of her son dangling from her neck.
"The boy is named Emanuel, but he is a gift from God," she later told Caracol Radio in Colombia. "He was the smallest and sweetest thing."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/11/colombia.hostages/index.html