A New York woman has been left devastated after she aborted her baby following paternity results, only to be told months later they were a ‘technical error.’
The 28-year-old Yonkers woman has sued Winn Health Labs and DNA Diagnostics Center after she aborted her long-awaited pregnancy due to what was revealed to have been false paternity test results.
The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told the New York Post: ‘I just have a lot of emotions. These results were the reason why I decided to do what I did.’
She and her then-fiancé had been struggling to get pregnant for ‘several months’ before they broke up, partially due to the ‘stress and aggravation’ of trying to conceive.
Their three-week split ended with her having had sexual relations with another man before she and her fiancé got back together.
However, she claimed that during the encounter with the other man that a condom had been used, the outlet reported.
‘I was tracking my ovulation,’ she said.
Around August 11, she discovered she was pregnant but was ‘certain’ it was her fiancé’s baby.
The 28-year-old Yonkers woman has sued Winn Health Labs and DNA Diagnostics Center after she aborted her long-awaited pregnancy due to what was revealed to have been false paternity test results
Still, she decided to know for certain and sought out paternity testing with the other man without telling her fiancé so as not to alarm him.
The first two tests cost her more than $1,000, yet the results came back inconclusive, so they moved on to Ohio-based DNA Diagnostics Center online.
According to court documents, the two went to a Winn Health Labs facility in the Bronx, located at the rear of a hair salon, in October to provide samples for the testing to be completed by DNA Diagnostics.
However, she was confident that it couldn’t be anyone’s baby except her and her fiancé’s, so she threw a gender-reveal party with the father while waiting on the results to come back.
She was left in ‘utter surprise, disappointment and frustration’ five days later after receiving a call on Halloween with the results.
The results assured her with ‘99.99% certainty’ that the other man was the father of her baby,’ court records stated.
Being nearly 20 weeks pregnant at that point, her decision of what to do next needed to be made before New York’s 24-week deadline for a legal abortion.
‘You took away the family I could have had. This was the person I was marrying. This is the person I wanted to build a family with,’ she said
It forced her to tell all to her fiancé.
The news was a ‘devastating setback to her and [her fiancé’s] relationship,’ court documents stated.
‘He just cried,’ she said. ‘He asked, “Why would you go through a gender reveal?” I told him, “Because I was positive it was yours.”‘
She decided the terminate the pregnancy ‘in an attempt to salvage her relationship’ after a ‘week of anxiety, stress, arguments, confrontations and conversations.’
The termination procedure lasted two-days, during which she even changed her mind, but it was too late, and the baby couldn’t be saved.
‘I wish I could reverse this,’ she said.
It wasn’t until she received a call on Valentine’s Day from DNA Diagnostics that her world shattered.
The lab told her that the results she had been given were due to an ‘IT error,’ according to court documents.
She was devastatingly informed by the lab that there was actually no chance whatsoever of the other man being the father of her baby.
Her fling during their separation had not resulted in the pregnancy, the lab revealed.
After staying together through everything, she and her fiancé split from the final heartbreak of knowing they had lost their child.
‘The reason I took action was because I believed in these results. I thought this was something that was one hundred percent true. And it led me to the abortion,’ she said, People reported.
Her lawyer, Craig Phemister, told the Post: ‘When you know people are relying immediately on paternity tests to make life decisions, why did it take four months for them to call? It just doesn’t make sense.’
Now, she wants justice and to hold the labs accountable for traumatic decision she was forced to make.
‘How many other people did it happen to?’ she asked.
The lab, in a statement to the Post, said: ‘For 30 years, DDC has provided reliable and accurate testing to millions of customers. If any concern is raised, we take immediate action to validate the results and rapidly notify customers of any issues.
The filings allege that the defendants gave the woman ‘inaccurate DNA paternity test results, knowing she would have very little time to make a decision on whether to keep her pregnancy or not’
‘We understand and appreciate the incredible amount of trust people place in us to get this right, and we expend every effort to meet that high standard.’
The filings allege that the defendants gave the woman ‘inaccurate DNA paternity test results, knowing she would have very little time to make a decision on whether to keep her pregnancy or not.’
It furthered that they then ‘outrageously failed to inform’ her of the mistake until months later.
‘You took away the family I could have had. This was the person I was marrying. This is the person I wanted to build a family with,’ she said.
Winn Health Labs nor the DNA Diagnostics Center immediately responded to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
