January 31, 2003	Friday	Ziqa’ad 27, 1423

FORT LAUDERDALE, Jan 30: A Florida judge dismissed a petition to appoint a state guardian for allegedly cloned baby “Eve” on Wednesday after the company that says it cloned the child, stated the infant was in Israel.

Expressing skepticism that a cloned child even existed but expressing concern for its welfare if it did, Juvenile Court Judge John Frusciante said his court had no jurisdiction in the case.

Frusciante dismissed the private citizen’s petition after Clonaid President Brigitte Boisselier testified that the child and her mother were in Israel and the baby had never been anywhere in the United States.

Clonaid, a company founded by the Raelian movement that believes mankind was created by extraterrestrials, announced a month ago it had produced the first cloned human, a baby girl called “Eve” born on Dec. 26 to an American mother.—Reuters