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Dear Lilly -
This requires a bit of explanation, so please bear with me before I get to my question.
I am a writer in Los Angeles who's working on a detective story. My story involves a woman who arrives at a hospital with a newborn baby. She tells the hospital staff the baby is hers and that she'd like medical care for it.
HI Eric,
sorry I had a puter meltdown and could not get back to you. First of alll the testing to find out paternity/maternity would be DNA however the clinch to this would be permission from the would be mom, but does she know that the baby is not hers or did they find out it wasn't hers from the beginning, if so she would need to grant them permission. NOw if she knows willingly that she stole the baby and it is not hers there would be the dilemma. DO you understand what I am trying to say here? write me back and let me know if you need more information.
The twist (which we don't find out until later) is that the baby is actually someone else's. In fact, what I need for the hospital to realize is that the woman couldn't possibly have given birth to a baby anytime recently because she shows no signs of having done so. So the mystery is, who's the baby's real mother, and where is she?
My questions are: 1. What kinds of tests would the hospital run to determine that this woman and baby are not related? 2. What physical clues might make a doctor or nurse suspicious about the situation and run those tests? 3. And what would the hospital staff tell the police, whom I'm assuming they'd call if they feared something happened to the baby's real mother?
Thanks in advance for your time. I'm looking to make this as accurate as possible, so please feel free to provide as much detail as you like.
Regards,
Eric Haywood
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Hi Eric,
I do these consultations but not in this medium, could you please send this to lvs1@tecinfo.com. thanks
AnswerHi Again,
the actual test that would be the most accurate would be the DNA but again without consent, chances are it would be inadmissable in court. Any tip offs would be the interaction between baby and the would be mother, if the baby constantly cries or screams when she is near or holds it, is a big clue, another would be how she reacts to the baby when it cries or if not crying how she cuddles and talks and looks at the baby, her demeaner. If the nurses or doctors really see that this is possible, the doctors could contact the police to get a court order from a judge by a DA and hope it would be admissable, which eventually would lead to investigation. Let me know if this helps and send me a check if you get published!!
