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...were signs that no matter how much the folks involved want to get along, family squabbles could shatter their best intentions. Evidence emerged last week that the home in which Johnson has been raising Callie hasn't been the most tranquil. Carlton Conley, Johnson's sometime boyfriend and possibly Rebecca's biological father, was convicted of assault and battery in April. Johnson said Conley had shoved her, rammed her car with his truck and in January threatened to shoot her. (Small wonder, then, that last year Johnson obtained a state permit to carry a concealed firearm...
...course, it's wrong to judge people in the most harrowing moments of their lives, but lawyers say these are just the sorts of factors that could come up in a custody war. As we try to see what's in Callie and Rebecca's future, it helps to look to their families' pasts...
...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 with TIME...
...their part, the Rogerses have struggled to manage tragedies that would test Job. Linda and Tommy Rogers, both 47, the bereaved parents of Whitney, are divorced but remain friends. Linda and Brenda Rogers, Tommy's current wife (who says she is in her 30s), 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...
...Rogerses still refuse to acknowledge that Rebecca isn't genetically one of theirs. Blame it on shell shock: on July 21, only 2 1/2 weeks after the accident, the hospital told them Rebecca wasn't their granddaughter. Perhaps foreshadowing a lawsuit, the Rogerses say hospital officials cruelly ignored their grief. Linda 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...