ONE Las Vegas Man’s search for the truth about his family has returned inconsistent results.
Logan Gifford, 26, believes his younger brother, 15, could be his son after claiming his mother Doreene Gifford sexually began to attack him when he was 10 years old.
Doreene Gifford, was sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison after that 8 News now Reports. She has also registered as a Sex offenderWhile she also maintains her innocence. Logan was 17 at the time.
Earlier this year, Logan Gliford filed a paternity case that asked for a judge to order an advanced DNA test to determine who the teenage father is, reports the outlets.
To sample was, however, indispensable. Logan Gliford said he and his father, Theodore, could both be a teenager’s biological father after their DNA both matched 99.9% to the sibling.
At a Thursday hearing, Family Court Judge Vincent Ochoa said the test results were surprising. “I think we should have known that it would come out that way from the beginning,” said Ochoa, pr. Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The judge recommended further tests to find out who the teenage father was. The judge also awarded Logan Gliford temporary custody of his brother. A previous temporary guardianship would have expired on Thursday, his lawyer Timothy Treffinger told review journal.
In a speech with the review-Journal, Logan Gifford said he would ask for the question, but pursue further tests to get “genetic clarity” for his brother.
“He is aware of what is going on and he understands why we are trying to get to the truth for him,” he said. “Because this wasn’t about me. This was about trying to get genetic answers to him.”
A Gofundme page created by Gifford to help him win custody and “protect” his brother, whom he currently lives with with his wife and step daughter, has raised nearly $ 2,000.
In the page description, the Gifford describes the situation as “a nightmare I never chose” and calls the idea that his brother is his son a “haunting opportunity.”
“The court process is tough, and with his cognitive struggles and our complicated family history, I need help to secure his future and give him the life he deserves,” Gifford wrote.
He added that he “also spoke for male survivors everywhere.”
“When I grew up, I was facing shame, disbelief and a system that didn’t see me – social services missed the signs and left me unprotected. For many men suffer from silence, and I am determined to change it,” he said.
Despite the previous discrepancy, experts have said that further testing is likely to answer Giffords.
Arthur Beaudet, a former president of the American Society of Human Genetics, said such circumstances would require a higher level of study.
“This is a job not for the average laboratory that performs paternity tests and disputes between individuals all the time,” he said Review-Journal. “This is a job for a top expert in this area.”