LIMA, Peru — A newspaper reported Monday that Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch man serving a 28-year-sentence for murdering a young Peruvian woman and a leading suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, says he is going to be a father. His attorney said the inmate does have a conjugal visitor, though he could not confirm she was pregnant.
The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf said Van der Sloot, a suspect in the Natalee Holloway disappearance, himself told it in a telephone call Saturday that “a test has proved” the pregnancy. Van der Sloot’s attorney Maximo Altez, told The Associated Press that a woman named Leidy Figueroa Uceda “is registered as a conjugal visitor of Joran.”
Van der Sloot is a self-described liar, having confessed to killing Holloway and later retracting the confessions. He is the last person known to have seen her alive.
He was convicted for the 2010 robbing and killing of Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel room after meeting her in a nearby casino. He is wanted by authorities in the U.S. for allegedly extorting money from the Holloway family on the promise of revealing the location of her body.
He could resist extradition to the United States if he obtains Peruvian nationality. That would be a possibility if he becomes the father of a Peruvian child or if he marries a Peruvian citizen.
