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2026-05-13 18:42 UTC

There was a woman who went to prison for this, her chimera baby's dna contradicted her story, I think to get public assistance of some kind, and the dna test convinced the state assholes she was lying and they sent her to prison, I think some researchers exonerated her eventually.

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@Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2026-05-13 21:13

Are you thinking of [Lydia Fairchild](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild)? In her case she wasn't sent to prison. However, her two children *were* taken from her and placed in foster care. Lawyers had refused to represent her at first, due to the belief that DNA evidence is too strong to fight. On the plus side, she became pregnant again. So a court officer was present during her third child's birth. Despite being at the birth and witnessing blood draws from both mother and child, the court still claimed she was being untruthful somehow. Thankfully, that birth and its evidence were peculiar enough to attract a lawyer to finally represent her. Only after that did the investigation into potential chimerism arise. More info here - https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/case-lydia-fairchild-and-her-chimerism-2002

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@minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-13 19:28

Why are they assholes? Because they didn't know about chimeras?

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