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Police Clueless on Star's Pregnancy
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian police have no idea how Mexico's fallen
queen of pop, Gloria Trevi, was able to get pregnant in jail, police officials said in a final report issued
on Monday.
Police said last month Trevi may have artificially inseminated herself in hopes that a pregnancy would
help her avoid extradition from Brazil, where she has been jailed since January 2000, back to Mexico
to face charges of sexual abuse.
In the past, Brazilian laws have allowed suspects to avoid extradition if they have a Brazilian child. But
it is by no means certain that Trevi would be allowed to stay, especially since the identity of the father is
not known.
News last month of Trevi's pregnancy confounded the police as she had been in jail, where men and
women are held separately, for more than 18 months. She is now about six months pregnant.
The police delivered their final report to Justice Minister Jose Gregori on Monday aiming to explain
how Trevi became pregnant.
But after questioning by Trevi, police said they could not be sure. She refused, as is her right, to
answer questions in full about her pregnancy, leaving the police unable to draw any sure conclusion.
``The conclusion is that it is a mystery that only she can clear up,'' Francisco Assis Guimaraes, a federal
police official of the internal affairs division, told reporters.
He said Trevi had been asked if her ``pregnancy had been consensual,'' whereupon the Mexican star
had said no. She had also said there had been irregularities in the jail where she was kept with a series
of high-profile Brazilian inmates.
But when asked if there had been any violence against her and who the father of the child was, she had
not responded.
However, questioning by police of an inmate who was imprisoned in the same jail found that he and
Trevi's manager, Sergio Andrade, who is also being held, had given Trevi sperm which she could have
used to artificially inseminate herself.
A preliminary police report had found she wanted to get pregnant and most likely inseminated herself.
Trevi, Andrade and backup singer Maria Raquenel Portillo were arrested in Rio de Janeiro in January
2000. Mexico wants the three extradited to face accusations they lured young girls with the promise of
stardom only to turn them into sex slaves for Andrade.
Trevi has applied for refugee status in Brazil to avoid being sent back to Mexico, where she says she
fears for her life.
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian police have no idea how Mexico's fallen
queen of pop, Gloria Trevi, was able to get pregnant in jail, police officials said in a final report issued
on Monday.
Police said last month Trevi may have artificially inseminated herself in hopes that a pregnancy would
help her avoid extradition from Brazil, where she has been jailed since January 2000, back to Mexico
to face charges of sexual abuse.
In the past, Brazilian laws have allowed suspects to avoid extradition if they have a Brazilian child. But
it is by no means certain that Trevi would be allowed to stay, especially since the identity of the father is
not known.
News last month of Trevi's pregnancy confounded the police as she had been in jail, where men and
women are held separately, for more than 18 months. She is now about six months pregnant.
The police delivered their final report to Justice Minister Jose Gregori on Monday aiming to explain
how Trevi became pregnant.
But after questioning by Trevi, police said they could not be sure. She refused, as is her right, to
answer questions in full about her pregnancy, leaving the police unable to draw any sure conclusion.
``The conclusion is that it is a mystery that only she can clear up,'' Francisco Assis Guimaraes, a federal
police official of the internal affairs division, told reporters.
He said Trevi had been asked if her ``pregnancy had been consensual,'' whereupon the Mexican star
had said no. She had also said there had been irregularities in the jail where she was kept with a series
of high-profile Brazilian inmates.
But when asked if there had been any violence against her and who the father of the child was, she had
not responded.
However, questioning by police of an inmate who was imprisoned in the same jail found that he and
Trevi's manager, Sergio Andrade, who is also being held, had given Trevi sperm which she could have
used to artificially inseminate herself.
A preliminary police report had found she wanted to get pregnant and most likely inseminated herself.
Trevi, Andrade and backup singer Maria Raquenel Portillo were arrested in Rio de Janeiro in January
2000. Mexico wants the three extradited to face accusations they lured young girls with the promise of
stardom only to turn them into sex slaves for Andrade.
Trevi has applied for refugee status in Brazil to avoid being sent back to Mexico, where she says she
fears for her life.
