Woman claims to be Mike Duffy’s unacknowledged daughter
Posted July 15, 2014 3:14 pm.
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A Peruvian woman is taking Mike Duffy to court, seeking to have the disgraced Conservative senator named as her father. Karen Duffy, a 32-year-old resident of Lima, claims that she is the product of a unlikely affair between her mother – a convicted drug mule who served time in Kingston, Ontario’s Prison for Women and then an Ottawa halfway house-and a man who was at the time, among the most famous journalists in Canada.
In an exclusive interview and video with Maclean’s Magazine, Karen Duffy explains that her suit in Peru’s Superior Court isn’t about money or Canadian citizenship, but simply an effort to connect with the man that she believes is her father. “I don’t know how else to get his attention,” the mother of three told the magazine. “I don’t want to become an old woman and wonder why I didn’t try. Why I didn’t fight.”
Mike Duffy calls the claims “untrue,” noting that they originated with a “convicted narcotics smuggler,” and says he intends to respond to the Peruvian proceedings in “an appropriate manner.” He declined all further comment.
Karen’s mother named Mike Duffy as the father on her March 1982 birth certificate, but no one would have looked into her assertion, Maclean’s reports. The suspended senator may face two choices under Peruvian law, either acknowledge that Karen is his child, or provide a DNA sample to disprove her claim. Any judgment by the Peruvian court will not be enforceable in Canada.
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