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...parent's worst nightmares had come true for her. Somehow her daughter is not her daughter, at least biologically. Somehow the girl she gave birth to on June 29, 1995, apparently was swapped with a girl born a few hours later to a 16-year-old cheerleader named Whitney Rogers. Somehow nothing makes sense anymore...
...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...
...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...
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...