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...summer days and watch Jeff Gordon drive his race car--the three-year-old who University of Virginia Medical Center officials believe is the biological daughter of Rogers, not Johnson. Which would mean that Johnson's genetic child is the girl that Rogers and her boyfriend Kevin Chittum named Rebecca. They were raising her a couple of hours away, in Buena Vista--at least until they were killed on July 4 in the nation's worst car accident that...
...that she had no plans to try to wrest Rebecca from the grandparents who have taken care of her since the accident. "But it don't mean I don't love her," she added, saying she wants to be part of the girl's life. And the Rogers and Chittum families too seemed to think love trumps DNA. Both Linda Rogers--Whitney's mother--and the Chittum family lawyer told TIME that the girls shouldn't be switched again...
...their part, before they learned of the switch, the Rogers and Chittum families had already debated who would raise their granddaughter after the deaths of Kevin and Whitney. (They had worked out a four-month rotation for each set of grandparents.) And some family members admitted to USA Today that after they learned of the switch, they tried to avoid being discovered as the family with Johnson's biological baby because they feared they would lose the girl...
...have amicably shared care of Rebecca since the car accident. All three were close to Whitney and Kevin, who were living in Linda's home with Rebecca and her 18-month-old "sister" Lindsey while the young couple saved to build a dream house of their own. Chittum, a running back in high school, owned part of his family's construction company. Financially mature for a 25-year-old, he had already purchased eight acres of land near Natural Bridge for the home, in addition to furniture and a big-screen...
Expect the results of DNA tests to determine whether Rebecca Chittum, one of the two "switched at birth" babies, is truly the biological daughter of Paula Johnson or of Tamara Whitney Rogers, the woman who raised her and recently died in a car crash...