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wonder what has happened to couple who freebirthed in Carribean?

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StrangerYears · 19/10/2023 03:43

Clive and Iuliia Gurzhii were all over the news for 3 days in August, after idiotically going to give birth on a beach a long way from home.
The birth was unwitnessed and very odd circumstances.
I googled them and all I could find was a gofundme (never saw that one coming!!) - it raised GBP128 out of an ambitious target of GBP15.000.

Do you think they are still out there?

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Catsmere · 19/10/2023 03:47

Good question! I'd quite forgotten about those two. That first MN thread about them was glorious.

stealtheatingtunnocks · 19/10/2023 03:48

Oh, that WAS weird. I hope the baby is ok, her parents are irresponsible

TiredCatLady · 19/10/2023 04:03

I’d love to know what’s happened to them. Probably changed their names after outing themselves as complete morons.

Ponderingwindow · 19/10/2023 04:18

I have looked for updates a few times and not seen anything. that isn’t totally surprising since the initial publicity push didn’t start filling the coffers on their gofundme.

brainexplorer · 19/10/2023 04:28

I have a horrible suspicion that they didn't birth the child at all. There's been no update I can find since they were required to submit to DNA testing. They claim the baby was born on a boat between two islands, and the hospital were adamant that she was more than 24 hours old, which is why they wouldn't register the birth. It's all very unsettling.

Shittenshite · 19/10/2023 04:33

After a quick Google search

wonder what has happened to couple who freebirthed in Carribean?
SwingTheMonkey · 19/10/2023 04:34

Not sure what was said in the original thread about these two but there’s no way this baby was theirs. They faked a pregnancy and went abroad trying to adopt a child without going through the correct route. Gave birth in the middle of the sea? Do me a favour. Someone gave birth, it just wasn’t her.

SwingTheMonkey · 19/10/2023 04:36

Shittenshite · 19/10/2023 04:33

After a quick Google search

Who are peukert and Bodhi? Not the people talked about in the op…

Shittenshite · 19/10/2023 04:40

Oops, sorry. I'm not designed for 4am starts.

AsWrittenBy · 19/10/2023 04:43

No updates since august

Zanatdy · 19/10/2023 04:49

Yes all very odd. If the child was theirs a DNA test would have meant a passport could be issued. Wonder if anyone knows them?

SkyDiv · 19/10/2023 05:02

StrangerYears · 19/10/2023 03:43

Clive and Iuliia Gurzhii were all over the news for 3 days in August, after idiotically going to give birth on a beach a long way from home.
The birth was unwitnessed and very odd circumstances.
I googled them and all I could find was a gofundme (never saw that one coming!!) - it raised GBP128 out of an ambitious target of GBP15.000.

Do you think they are still out there?

I suspect there was childbirth and it was all a scam right from start

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/10/2023 05:10

Fake pregnancy/adoption scam was my first thought too!

ImustLearn2Cook · 19/10/2023 05:11

It was all over the news in August. It’s weird that there has been no update. Even if it turned out to be a scam, you’d think that the news outlets would simply update that it turned out to be a scam.

I wonder what happened.

Mangotango39 · 19/10/2023 05:13

Yeah I'd love an update to!
It was all so strange!

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/10/2023 05:14

I suspect the fact there is no update means they got it sorted and came home, no scam or fake pregnancy... just utter muppets.

HoppingPavlova · 19/10/2023 05:42

I would think zero chance the baby was biologically theirs, and they got caught out trying to circumvent the systems and told a bulldust story.

LemonTreeSkies · 19/10/2023 05:44

“Birthing person”??

Wouldn’t that be the mother?

Zonder · 19/10/2023 06:20

It was really sad for their other child, I remember. They didn't see her for months because they apparently wanted a perfect birth. Or something.

NOTANUM · 19/10/2023 06:34

It’s annoying when stories just drop off the radar and this is one of them!

ThePoshUns · 19/10/2023 06:35

LemonTreeSkies · 19/10/2023 05:44

“Birthing person”??

Wouldn’t that be the mother?

Exactly 😡

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 19/10/2023 06:38

Zonder · 19/10/2023 06:20

It was really sad for their other child, I remember. They didn't see her for months because they apparently wanted a perfect birth. Or something.

Apparently they couldn't get her a passport either.

Shraree · 19/10/2023 06:45

This is the problem with modern journalism. Newspapers just picked up the story from a news wire, printed it and forgot about it.

SwingTheMonkey · 19/10/2023 06:47

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 19/10/2023 06:38

Apparently they couldn't get her a passport either.

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It’s so hard to be prepared with things like that when you’ve no idea how long the gestation of a human baby will be…

FrustatedAgain · 19/10/2023 06:49

I’d love to know the ending to this story too!

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