Paraguay’s Lugo in another baby mama drama

Earlier this month, Roman-Catholic-bishop-turned-Paraguayan-president Fernando Lugo publicly confessed that he fathered a child while he was a priest. The affair rocked the country and caused his popularity to plummet.

Surely there is no way that situation could be worse, right? Wrong; Lugo was accused once more of putting his hand in the cookie jar (so to speak):

The 27-year-old woman making the latest demand says her six-year-old is the son of Mr. Lugo.

In a press conference, the woman said her relationship with the then Bishop Lugo had begun in 2001, when she had gone to him for help with trying to contact the father of her first child.

The woman, from a very poor background, said she had wanted help with getting financial support for her child.

She said Mr. Lugo had sent her money until the boy was two years old, but the money had stopped coming.

She also said he had asked her to keep quiet about the issue during last year's election campaign, which he went on to win.

This is getting more and more unusual, no?

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Online Sources- Reuters, The Latin Americanist, BBC News,