A Nakuru court on Monday, September 30, left two women fighting over the paternity of a child bewildered.
Lillian Auma and Calland Mwajuma had been embroiled in a legal tussle over a minor, with the latter leading to Auma's arrest back on August 11, 2019, claiming her baby was stolen from her crib.
However, the report presented to Principal Magistrate Bernard Mararo, shocked the courtroom as it declared that none of the women could have been the biological mother of the child in question, The Standard reported.
“Based on DNA profile generated from the listed samples, both Auma and Mwajuma are excluded as biological mothers to the infant,” read an excerpt of the findings.
A buccal swab - collection of DNA from the cells on the inside of a person's cheek, was carried on both women, on August 26, 2019. The report from the government laboratory was compiled by Pamela Okelo.
According to a report published on live science, during pregnancy, some of the fetus's cells leave the womb, travelling through the placenta and into the mother's bloodstream, where they end up in various parts of her body.
The findings thus left the biological parents of the three-month-old baby classified as unknown, with Magistrate Mararo calling on the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) to look into the matter.
He went on to announce that the case would be mentioned on October 14, 2019.
In a similar incident, DNA results laid to rest months of anguish for two mothers Dorothy Kawira and Evaline Ndinda who were at the centre of a baby-swapping saga at the Mama Lucy Hospital in July 2019, after the court ruled that there had been no swap as was proven by the results.
