Deliveryman says baby is not his
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Posted 12:22PM on Wednesday 2nd October 2002 ( 22 years ago )
ATLANTA - A deliveryman charged with the abandonment of a newborn baby he first said he found in a downtown Atlanta parking lot now says the baby is not his. <br>
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Sixty-year-old Eddie Stephens -- who is married -- said Tuesday he had an affair with the child's mother for six years but says he had not seen her for more than a year when she called him and asked him to take the child. He says he's ready to take a DNA test to prove the baby is not his. <br>
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Stephens was charged Monday with abandonment and making a false police report. <br>
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The baby's mother -- 34-year-old Jeanette Whorl -- also has been charged. <br>
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Stephens has worked at Franklin's Printing since 1975. He told police two weeks ago he found the baby in the company parking lot. He said he saw a pile of towels on a concrete ledge. <br>
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The baby, named Selena Rena by her caseworker, was given to a foster family last week after spending a week in the hospital for observation.
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