Who’s Your Daddy? — DNA Tests Won’t Help!

Raymon and Richard are identical twins.  Four years ago, they each had sexual relations with the same woman on the same day within just a few hours of each other!  A child was born as result of these carnal activities. 

According to Mary Kathryn Burke, Who’s Your Daddy? Paternity Battle Between Brothers, ABC News, May 21, 2007, “a paternity test in this case could not help. The test showed that both brothers have over a 99.9 percent probability of being the daddy— and neither one wants to pay the child support. * * *  ‘With identical twins, even if you sequenced their whole genome you wouldn’t find difference…they’re clones,’ said Dr. Bob Gaensslen, a forensic scientist at Orchid Cellmark labs in Texas.”

Special thanks to Sara Hudman (May 2008 J.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University School of Law) for bringing this development to my attention.