“Forrest’s son, Leo, was born on Jan. 21 in an Armenian hospital. Doctors there broke the news to him that the baby was born with Down syndrome.

“I had a few moments of shock,” he told ABC News. But when he held his newborn for the first time, he fell in love.

“I looked at this guy and I said, he’s beautiful,” Forrest said of the meeting. “He’s perfect and I’m absolutely keeping him.”

When he went to see his wife in the hospital room, she gave him an “ultimatum.”

“She told me if I kept him, then we would get a divorce,” Forrest said.

His wife filed for divorce a week later. Forrest said he was also no longer welcome in the home that they had lived in with her family.

The baby’s mother, Ruzan Badalyan, told ABC that she had a baby with Down syndrome who was with the father, whom she had left. She did not provide additional details to the network.

In Armenia there is still little awareness about the disabled, Unicef reported. Children are sometimes institutionalized in orphanages or boarding schools at birth.”

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