Wife of detained Liberian ex-President Taylor gives birth to baby girl

Ex-Liberian president Taylor’s wife has baby girl

MONROVIA, Liberia — A family spokesman says that the wife of detained former Liberian President Charles Taylor has given birth to a baby girl.

Sando Johnson says the child was born to Victoria Addison-Taylor last month in the Netherlands, but that mother and child will return to Liberia “very soon.”

Johnson told The Associated Press Friday that this is the couple’s third daughter together.

The two wed during the last days of his regime in 2003. They both lived in exile in Nigeria up to the time of Taylor’s arrest on war crime charges in 2006.

The former president is accused of 11 counts of murder, rape, sexual slavery, cruelty, forced labor and recruiting child soldiers as he supported rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone. He has denied all allegations.