Santo Domingo. - The deputy Julio Romero has a 22 year old son whom he has yet to recognize, although DNA test confirmed a 99.98% paternity, said the journalist Alicia Ortega in her program on Monday, when she contacted Gabriel Eduardo Castillo and his mother Luz Yanina Castle, who live in San José de Ocoa (south).

She also presented the denunciations of two women, one who lives in a South American country and another in the United States, allegedly raped in their adolescence by Romero, who represents Santo Domingo East for the opposition PRD party.

Both women made their statements under anonymity, although both vow to begin legal actions against the legislator, who reacted by denying having committed rape or some sexual act against any woman and attempted to block Ortega’s presentation with a Bailiff’s affidavit delivered the same Monday.

Ortega called the deputy’s action attempted censorship which seeks to intimidate her.

Castillo, who was pregnant by Romero when she was 17, said in different occasions she tried to approach the now lawmaker, who was then a salesman, to present him to his son, but was met with evasion and denials.

Even after the conclusive paternity test Romero has resisted recognizing Eduardo Gabriel Castillo, who has had to drive a moto-taxi to make a living, after dropping out in his third year of high school.

Sentence 166 handed down by San José de Ocoa Justice of the Peace Jose Eliseo Perez on July 10, 2002, orders Romero to provide child support for his son. He also faces paternity and child support suit filed by 18 year old Yuilmi Peguero, also allegedly made pregnant when she was a minor.