It Just Gets Stranger

Have you ever heard a story from someone or even on the news that you thought no way; it is just too strange to be true? At times it even seems like they come in waves, one right after the other.

There was one recently that really fits the strange description involving a child custody suit. The little girl is two years old and her parents are getting divorced. Evidently they are both seeking sole custody and each is claiming the other one is not the actual parent of the child. Their stories are identical except they are both claiming it is the other parent's problem.

It seems they both say that the original birth certificate was faked or changed after they received it. The mother says the fathers name was changed to the current person but he is not the real father. The reason for doing so was the real father was not a good person and really didn't want anything to do with the baby anyway. But instead of not listing him at all on the certificate they went ahead and listed him as the father. He supposedly disappeared right after the birth and she met a new man. They felt it would be easier to just change the birth certificate themselves and show him as the original father. Now, the father claims the exact same story, but it was the mother that was bad, etc. so he kept the baby and met a new woman, etc.

The original certificate information had been destroyed in a hospital fire two days after the birth and while they got a certificate because paperwork had been sent in and the county issued the certificate but they have since lost that paperwork. Obviously it would have to be decided with DNA testing, which they did perform. Ready for the even stranger part? When the results came in it showed that they were both the biological parents of the child.

Their explanations are that both were really angry felt the other parent would not be fit to raise the child. Unfortunately, the child is now in foster care while it is decided what charges may be filed on the parents, etc. Just shows how important those documents can be and how strange people can be.