Most Prolific Woman a Fraud, Police Say
From Times Wire Reports
A Chilean woman who once made the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most prolific mother with 58 children was a fraud, police reported.
Leontina Espinoza, who died in 1988 at 66, gave birth to only 16 of the people she claimed as her children, Chilean newspapers quoted police inspector Cristina Rojo as saying. Others were given to her by poor women or her cousins, Rojo said. “Her idea was to collect the food assistance” that the government grants to large, poor families, Rojo said.
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