Word: johnson
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...Johnson returned to the hospital the same day because her baby wouldn't feed. She says hospital personnel then took the ID band off the baby. The baby was admitted for three days, during which time the other baby was still in the hospital...
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...
...says a pediatrician called her at the Wal-Mart pharmacy, where she works, to tell her he had news about Rebecca he had to relay in person. Later a doctor showed up with a syringe, asking for Rebecca's blood for a DNA test. (Hospital officials believe Rebecca is Johnson's biological daughter because of blood-type tests, which are much less certain than DNA tests.) "It's just like we were going to do this hush-hush," Linda says. "They were very unprofessional." The Rogerses refused to let them test Rebecca's blood until last week, when their lawyer...
...Johnson says that when she was discharged from the hospital, the baby she took home was weighed at 7 lbs., 12 oz. But just after birth her child had weighed 9 lbs., 6 oz. Babies often shed a few ounces in the hours after birth, but not 17% of their body weight. Hospital chief of staff Dr. Thomas Massaro admits the hospital can't explain why the large discrepancy went unnoticed. "We don't understand that," he says, though he is virtually positive there was no accidental switch in this case. "We have very good documentation that the band...