Baby Switched, DNA Test Confirms
A DNA test confirmed that one of two babies who were apparently switched at a hospital three years ago was indeed sent home with the wrong parents, a lawyer said Tuesday.
The test proved that 3-year-old Rebecca Grace Chittum is the biological daughter of Paula K. Johnson, said Peter Robey, an attorney for the family that took Rebecca home. Johnson has been raising the other 3-year-old, Callie Marie Johnson, as her own.
DNA testing on Callie is under way.
The couple who raised Rebecca, Whitney Rogers and Kevin Chittum, died in a car crash July 4, the day after Johnson learned through court-ordered genetic testing that Callie was not her biological child.
Rebecca is now being raised by Whitney Rogers’ parents.
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