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Suspicious curiousity test report

HELP has anyone ever had a report as described below or is there a medical professional reading this that can advise professionally on the report described.


I recently travelled to the country of my childs alleged father and we carried out a paternity test.  (after setting up three legal international tests over six years at the request and agreement of the alleged father which he failed to complete all three times)

Because of delays on behalf of the alleged father the test was not completed on my daughter until the morning we departed.  I took two swabs following all the directions in provided.  Completed the paperwork including the envelope the samples get sealed in with the date of the sample collection etc and sealed the envelope.  The alleged father suppose to have taken his samples that same day but failed to.  I had no choice but to leave the sample with a friend on the understanding and agreement that the alleged father would collect and do his sample the next day.  He failed to do so.  In fact, he failed to do so for a month.  I finally got confirmation that the samples/kit/documents had been collected and submitted.   Then the report got forwarded to me by email by alleged father.  I was named on the report as being copied but I never heard from the lab.  

To my utter surprise the report (which looks nothing like any report I can find examples of) was NEGATIVE.  However, the date for collection of my daughters sample is dated on the report as being one month after the actual collection date.  The report shows no scientific data.  It has a column of markers.  a column of allieles for my daughter and a column of allieles for the alleged father and a column in between that is titled "Consistent?" that contains ticks and crosses.  There is a statement at the bottom that says that the alleged father  is not the biological father.  

I started researching the "accreditation" of the lab the test was carried out at - It is accredited as  ISO/IEC 17025 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories.  They are not an accredited relationship testing lab as far as I can find.  ie they are not AABB accredited or similar.

To me the fact that the date of collection is incorrect on the report, no scientific PI data on report and no relationship testing accreditation throws up a number of red flags.

I contacted a top accredited testing centre in the USA and asked for their advice.  They reviewed the report and stated that though they can not comment on the result itself as they did not carry out the test (understandable) the fact that the collection date is wrong is a major fault and red flag and throws the entire test into question, for more conclusive test results mother should have been tested though it is not required, no scientific data again a red flag.  The body that accredited them is unknown to them and I am right to be concerned about the integrity of the test and report.  They commented that the report is in a format they have never seen before.  They looked up the lab and commented that the information provided/lab is unimpressive and I am right to be concerned.

So I am left with suspicions of the lab, testing procedure, human error, deliberate tampering of my daughters sample, and no trust in the alleged father.

I should add that my daughter looks like a mini version of the alleged father which is something even his family members that have met her have said.

I am now setting up a further legal test internationally with a highly accredited relationship testing facility in USA which the alleged father says he will do..................
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134578 tn?1693250592
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I am wondering, also, what country you were doing all of this in?  Do you know if they have labs there that do paternity testing certified by the family court for determining paternity legally?  You might contact the court system in the country where he lives for a list of labs they consider valid for this purpose.

As far as the past test is concerned, don't waste a lot of time worrying about whether the lab did or did not do things correctly, just assume the situation was suspect and go forward with a new test now, using authority.  

By the way, I'm assuming you know the man is the father.  If you just think he is, and there is another possible candidate, you REALLY want the testing to be reliable.   (If the latter situation, you could test with the other candidate; he might be easier to deal with than the guy who is skipping out on all the tests.)

Anyway, if this particular man who has skipped out on all the tests is a prize worth chasing, such as, there is financial support you could gain for your child, or some positive name recognition that you feel would benefit your child in the future, you should definitely be seeing a lawyer in that country.  Failing the ability to do that, go to the embassy here and talk to them about your problem and see what they recommend.  Talk to lab and the guy's family, someone else might be able to do a DNA test in his place.  If the guy has some local fame, you could even go to the press in his country.  But I wouldn't take any of those steps until you are sure he has to be the dad, by ruling out all other possibilities, and also I wouldn't make that kind of fuss if the guy is just some garden-variety irresponsible creep who does not have any money or any interest in the child either.
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134578 tn?1693250592
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It does not sound like you can trust the situation; knowing the guy had dodged tests before, I would have insisted the whole thing be done with lawyers present and you witnessing him doing the swab and your child's swab and being there when both were taken into custody at the neutral lab or put into the post, in other words, every step should be done with neutral witnesses whose job it is to be sure there is no substitution of the swabs or of the package with the swabs in it.  There are a hundred ways someone who does not want to be named a father can switch samples around.

If this guy is just some jerk, I am not sure that all your trouble to establish him as the father is worth it, since it does not sound like he is going to be an interested father even if the test comes up positive.  But if you think there is a good reason to do it (for example, if you could get child support for your child) I can see doing it.  But stop doing it in such a casual way.  Leaving swabs to be mailed off later is ridiculous, anyone's swab could have been sent in.
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I should also add that the USA lab also commented that the lab hadn't followed standard for number of markers tested
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