"We knew this woman very well and knew without any doubt that she was the mother of these kids. Then, Lydia's lawyer, Alan Tindell, made a discovery.Īnother American woman, Karen Keegan, had a remarkably similar story. Now, Lydia risked losing her two young children as well as her newborn baby. "They took DNA from the baby and myself after birth, and it came back that there was no way possible that the baby was mine," Fairchild told ABC News.Īlthough the court officer witnessed the birth, the DNA evidence told a different story. When Lydia later gave birth to her third child, a court officer was present in the delivery room to immediately take blood samples from both Lydia and her newborn baby for DNA testing. "Every day felt like the last day that I was going to see them." "I felt like I was the only one in the whole world trying to fight for my kids, and nobody was listening to me," she told Only Human. But each time, the test claimed that Lydia was not the mother of her children. The family were DNA tested at least three more times. Listen to Mamamia's True Crime Conversations, which features interviews with experts on the world's most fascinating, terrifying and mysterious crimes. I held them in my arms, you know,'" Lydia's mother, Carol Fairchild, told ABC News. "I thought she was joking but then she started crying on the phone. She called her parents in a panic - she was in danger of losing her two children as authorities suspected that she was committing welfare fraud by acting as a surrogate mother to the children. Lydia was not only denied financial assistance for her children, but she was now the subject of a criminal investigation. They asked me, 'Are you Lydia Fairchild? Who are you really? Where did you get these kids from? Did your sister have these children and you're taking them?'"Īlthough Lydia had fallen pregnant and given birth to two babies, the test showed no match between her DNA and that of her children. I was like, 'What are you talking about?' But they were serious. but there's a problem, there's no way that you're the mother,'" she continued. "They told me, 'He's 99 per cent the father. I asked them, 'So, what'd we get?'" Lydia told Only Human. "I was sitting by the door in a chair and they just stared at me.
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