A couple who conceived in vitro suspected the baby of not having his genes because of the color of his skin: a DNA study revealed

The skin color of a child He made his parents believe they were actually the parents of the child. This happened in the United States, when a couple suffered a In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) with Dr. Melvin Thornton.

According to parents, the minor it is not genetically linkedWith them, they took legal action against the doctor.

The first thing they thought, after the baby born did not have the same pigmentation that the father, the genetic mother and their first child, who apparently have a much clearer complexion.

According to the Court, both parents visited Dr. Thornton at the Fertility Clinic in Trumbull City, Connecticut, in 2015, after a long struggle to conceive.

The process consisted of freezing embryos with the help of a husband's sperm and donor eggs. The woman became pregnant and she gave birth in April 2016 to her first child.

Happy with the result, the parents came back five months later hoping to give a little brother to his son, and used previously stored embryos.

However, when the woman gave birth to the second child, the newborn did not look like his big brother "at all"; For this reason, they decided to do a DNA test. In fact, parents did not have the same genetic code as the minor.

Although the couple started judicial process against the doctor in November 2018, Bridgeport, Connecticut, they admitted that their eldest son "is loved and that he is healthy in all its aspects, but that it is not his biological baby".

"The couple wonders every day who is the real father of the child, they even asked if the woman had an affair."

Apparently, the couple has continued the trial since They are concerned that the real sperm donor is aware of what happened and claims custody of the child.

The confused situation has put people involved in the harbadment and criticism of strangers. "Every day, they ask them questions about the identity of the real father," says the trial.

Among the fears of marriage, there is also the fact that the father's sperm has been misused for impregnate other women without their consent.

The lawsuit states: "They have reason to believe that they have lost genetic material (embryos) that belongs to them, without knowing whether it has been transferred to another person, destroyed or frozen under a correct name. . "