Twin girls in Passaic County
share one mother but have
different fathers, a state judge
has found in a case that defies
the laws of probability.
Ruling Monday in a dispute over
child-support payments, state
Superior Court Judge Sohail
Mohammed said DNA testing
had revealed the mother –
identified as T.M. in court papers
– gave birth to “heteropaternal
dizygotic twins” in 2013, or
non-identical twins by two
different men. As such, the one
identified father will pay support
only for his child.
The uncanny birth did not
involve any special medical
techniques — just a case of
heightened fertility and
intercourse with two men in the
same week, the judge said.
Doctors and researchers have
been aware of the phenomenon
since the 1970s. But it is so rare
that one of the leading DNA
testing experts in the country,
Karl-Hans Wurzinger of the lab-
testing giant LabCorp, told the
court he only sees six cases per
year.
In 1997, the incidence rate of
twins from different fathers was
one out of every 13,000
paternity cases, or 0.008
percent, Mohammed said. That
makes it the same odds as
sinking a hole-in-one while
golfing.
There is no database keeping
track of such births, but the
phenomenon appears to be on
the rise now with the advent of
modern reproduction
techniques, Mohammed wrote.
“Today, it is believed that the
incidence of bipaternal twins is
increasing at a higher rate
compared to 50 years ago
mainly due to assistive
reproductive technologies,
ovulation induction, promiscuity
and other factors,” Mohammed
wrote.
The case began in October,
when the Passaic County Board
of Social Services filed an
application to establish paternity
and child support for T.M.’s twin
daughters, who are now 2 years
old. At the time, the mother
named a former romantic
partner, identified only as A.S., as
the father of both girls.
A subsequent DNA test found
that he had fathered only one of
the girls.
“The mother testified that within
about a week, she had sexual
intercourse with two men – A.S.
and another man,” Mohammed
wrote, adding that the other
man had not undergone a DNA
test.
Although it is rare, some women
experience heightened periods
of fertility in which they ovulate
twice in a space of 48 to 72
hours, experts said. When that
happens, it is “entirely possible
that each of the eggs could [be]
fertilized by sperm from a
different man” during separate
acts of intercourse, according to
Wurzinger, an expert in the field
with 25 years of experience in
DNA testing.
New Jersey courts had never
seen a case like it before,
Mohammed said, and in the
United States, only two other
cases, in Colorado and New York,
have dealt with bipaternal twins.
Mohammed, appointed to the
bench by Governor Christie,
ruled that A.S. must pay $28 a
week in support for his child,
and the judge declined a request
from the Passaic County Board
of Social Services to terminate
the case, saying paternity had
not been established as to the
other child.
Because bipaternal twins are so
rare, the judge said he reviewed
the lab’s DNA testing process
exhaustively, including the
methods, conditions, technology,
training levels of employees and
other issues. Mohammed said he
was satisfied that New Jersey
had “stringent protocols” in
place for DNA tests.
“Given the rarity of this medically
acceptable phenomena coupled
with the general public's lack of
awareness, it is not
unreasonable to expect that
when one is confronted with
the DNA test results that show
each twin in a given case has a
different father, an
overwhelming majority will likely
express sheer disbelief,” he
wrote.
A.S. represented himself in the
case. The Passaic Board of Social
Services, which represented the
mother, could not be reached
for comment.
Source: www.northjersey.com/mobile/news/passaic-county-twins-have-different-fathers-judge-finds-in-paternity-case-1.1328431

Women sha

Weird


But they look identical...
Same mother from different father , twins 4 that matter,

hmmm ... End tym tinx

I stopp'd trusting women long time ago...thank God it was detected early enough. I wonder the kinda trauma they would go through if they were adults

Blizzyblinkzy:
Weird

But they look identical... Same mother from different father , twins 4 that matter,
hmmm ... End tym tinx

I knew somebody was gonna say end time tinz

ginawest:
I knew somebody was gonna say end time tinz

Hw did u knw ? Did u see it spiritually ?

ginawest:
I knew somebody was gonna say end time tinz

i like ur profile pix.'hope u in fr d miss nairaland cmpetitn!..u luk ravishing..
Bk to d topic nothin like end time things,dis shii's bin happenin frm tym immemorial bt tnks to science n tech we just getting to c d truth n knw more. . .
NB: women dont reali know want dey want dts why cant be trust'd

Good discovery, science sure is making things less complicated. But then women, haba. Na to de test babies street birth o, these guys are just blessed with ruining family joy and happiness at the peak of celebrations. Had it been a married woman here in Nigeria, the husband will innocently claim responsibility until there's a need to donate an organ or blood. That's when the movie will start.