[robandjulie]

Dee - DNA can be falsified in a few ways. For one, the doctor (if s/he is in on it) could allow a decoy woman to pretend to be the mother and slip her child's DNA in as the child's DNA. Naturally it would be a match and then the catch at the 2nd DNA would be that they'd have to get that same decoy child's sample for the 2nd DNA. This requires corrupt doctors and attorneys, but sadly that's not impossible to find in any country.

The attorney/doctor could also bribe the DNA lab to just lie about the results, but I doubt that works as well. Still, it's a possibility.

The attorney could bring in a decoy mother and decoy child and the doctor didn't even know, although not sure how easy it is to get it past the MD.

This seems easier when the kids were getting 1st DNA very young (first weeks/months of life) because--let's face it--babies generally look pretty similar until about 6-8 months and so passing off a decoy baby in a photo taken at 2 months as the same baby at the embassy at 4-6 months might be pretty easy. For us, Jorge was over a year at 1st DNA and was 20 mos at the embassy so it would have been harder (though certainly not impossible for a determined sneak) to find a close enough match.

The article is sad in so many ways.