Moroccan woman in Berlusconi sex case gives birth

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Moroccan woman in Berlusconi sex case gives birth

The Associated Press Published Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:12PM EST

Karima el-Mahroug presents her ball gown prior to the Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, March 3, 2011. Karima el-Mahroug nicknamed Ruby will be special guest of Austrian businessman Richard Lugner at this year's Opera Ball. Karima el-Mahroug presents her ball gown prior to the Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, March 3, 2011. Karima el-Mahroug nicknamed Ruby will be special guest of Austrian businessman Richard Lugner at this year's Opera Ball. (AP / Kerstin Joensson)

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ROME - Italian media say the Moroccan woman who is at the centre of a sex scandal with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi has given birth to a girl at a Genoa hospital.

Luca Risso, the companion of 19-year-old Karima el-Mahroug, told Sky Italia TV News on Tuesday that mother and daughter are fine. The baby is named Sofia Aida Risso.

The mother is also known as Ruby.

Berlusconi is currently on trial in Milan on charges of having had sex with her when she was 17 and working as an underage prostitute, and then trying to use his office to cover it up.

Both he and Ruby deny they had sex.