Word: conley
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Then, late Thursday, Melissa Conley--Carlton's sister--told TIME that Johnson was lying during the televised news conference that had gripped the country Wednesday. Through her own tears, Melissa, 41, said that she was in the delivery room and she saw an ID bracelet on Johnson's baby before she was taken from the room. Johnson has said that her baby was whisked away for tests before a bracelet was attached. If it turns out there's even the flimsiest of allegations linking Johnson to the switch--and there is no evidence of that now--the two families would...
Johnson's lawyer wouldn't speak with TIME about Conley's allegations (or anything else). But Johnson herself had previously rejected any suggestion that she was involved. Hospital officials, she says, "act like I went into Wal-Mart and switched my baby. I'm not ... a rocket scientist, but I'm not an idiot. Why would I switch my kid? It doesn't make sense." It's also worth mentioning that Melissa Conley and Johnson don't get along and that Melissa nurses a grudge toward her brother's ex. "I'm scared of this woman," Melissa told TIME...
Though they are on better terms now, Carlton Conley and Johnson have fought so much they should be in a Tammy Wynette song. She threw him out in January 1995 because, Johnson says, "he spent more time hunting and fishing than he did with his family." Johnson herself is no shrinking violet: she was convicted in 1994 of a very Southern civil infraction called "curse and abuse." She apparently had called a school official a "fat b___" and run at the woman's car. Conley and Johnson often wrangled over his $75 a week child-support payment for Callie...
...that bickering that led to the discovery of Callie's genetic identity: as is routine in child-support disputes, a local judge ordered paternity tests to determine whether Conley had in fact fathered Callie. But tests showed that neither he nor Johnson was the girl's genetic parent. It's unclear whether Conley fathered Rebecca. His sister Melissa says another man may be the father. But Conley himself now seems to want to stand by his ex-girlfriend. He sat with her nervously at the press conference and said he wants to help raise both girls. (He refused to speak...
...Melissa Conley, who drove Johnson home after the delivery, says she remembers Johnson asking the doctor discharging her what blood type Callie had. "The doctor says it was not her type, that Callie had O-negative, which is rare," Conley says. "Then Paula said, 'She must have her father's,' and got real quiet...