\u201cTheir concern is that this is someone else\u2019s child, and someone could show up at any time and claim the baby and take that baby away from them,\u201d Scarola said.<\/p>\n
The Orlando Sentinel reported the Fertility Center of Orlando had stated they were \u201cactively cooperating with an investigation to support one of our patients in determining the source of an error that resulted in the birth of a child who is not genetically related to them\u201d.<\/p>\n
The statement was deleted from their website following an emergency hearing last week.<\/p>\n
Tiffany Score and Steven Mills were shocked when their daughter was born with a “non-Caucasian” appearance. Photo \/ Mara Hatfield via Orlando Sentinel<\/p>\n
Score and Mills told People they hope the case will provide answers, with questions lingering around the status of their own biological embryos.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur joy over her birth is further complicated by the devastating reality that her genetic parents \u2013 whom we do not yet know \u2013 or possibly another family entirely, may have received the child we conceived.\u201d <\/p>\n
They believe the suit will help them to \u201cbegin living more freely and to finally celebrate the one beautiful thing that has come from all of this: our daughter. Shea is completely innocent and so undeserving of any of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Score and Mills have requested the clinic notify other patients of the error and pay for genetic testing of all babies conceived through their services in the past five years.<\/p>\n
Scarola told the Orlando Sentinel legal precedent for a case of its kind is scarce as \u201cfortunately, it is very uncommon for such a horrendous error to have occurred\u201d.<\/p>\n
An expedited agreement between the couple and the clinic is continuing to be developed, with IVF Life lawyer Francis Pierce III noting the clinic\u2019s other parents would have to consent to the genetic test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTheir concern is that this is someone else\u2019s child, and someone could show up at any time and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,9526,117724,2511,27056,12448,43714,59915,2147,42,10109,150847,16407,22055,150845,43,150846,22193,133651,165,8229,61,40,38,41,39,3608,1842,102],"class_list":["post-263693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-another","tag-astonishing","tag-child","tag-clinic","tag-couples","tag-discovering","tag-embryo","tag-florida","tag-headlines","tag-husband","tag-impregnated","tag-ivf","tag-leads","tag-mixup","tag-news","tag-nonbiological","tag-sued","tag-suing","tag-their","tag-they","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-were","tag-wife","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}