Florida couple sues fertility clinic after allegedly giving birth to someone else's baby

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A Florida mates is suing a fertility session weeks aft the pistillate gave commencement to a babe that allegedly isn’t biologically their child.

Steven Mills and Tiffany Score gave commencement to a "beautiful, steadfast pistillate child" successful December, but erstwhile the couple, who are some White, realized their caller girl appeared to beryllium "racially non-Caucasian," they ordered familial investigating that proved she wasn’t theirs, according to tribunal documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

The suit claims the Fertility Center of Orlando somehow implanted the incorrect embryo successful Score’s uterus 5 years aft the mates had their embryos frozen astatine the clinic.

"Of adjacent interest to the Plaintiffs is the evident anticipation that idiosyncratic other was implanted with 1 oregon much of their embryos and is large with oregon has been large with and is presently parenting 1 oregon much of their children," the lawsuit, filed successful Orange County, Florida connected Jan. 22, added.

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Steven Mills and Tiffany Score holding the babe miss Score gave commencement to.  (MILLS SCORE FAMILY ATTORNEY MARA HATFIELD)

The suit besides claims that the mates has asked the session to nary avail to assistance reunite the girl Score gave commencement to with her biologic parents and to find retired what happened to their ain frozen embryos.

They besides privation the session to wage for the familial investigating of each kid calved whose parents had embryos implanted astatine the session successful the past 5 years aft the mates utilized their services.

"An intensely beardown affectional enslaved was created connected the portion of Tiffany and Steven with the unborn kid Tiffany carried during the 9 months of her pregnancy, and contempt the definite cognition that Shea is not their genetically matched child, the affectional enslaved grows stronger each infinitesimal of each time that Shea remains successful their care," the suit says. "They would willingly support her successful their care; however, for the involvement of some Shea and her familial parents, they admit that Shea should legally and morally beryllium agreed with her familial parents truthful agelong arsenic they are fit, capable and consenting to instrumentality her."

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Doctor removing embryo samples from cryogenic storage. (Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

At an exigency proceeding connected Wednesday, lawyers connected some sides said that session had preliminarily agreed to bash familial testing, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

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However, Francis Pierce III, a lawyer for the clinic, told the Sentinel that determination are privateness issues with genetically investigating different babies calved to patients astatine the clinic.

"Patients would person to hold to beryllium tested," helium told the newspaper. Pierce added that attorneys connected some sides are moving for a speedy settlement. 

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A Florida mates is suing a fertility session weeks aft the pistillate gave commencement to a babe that isn’t biologically their child. (ASTIER/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Dr. Milton McNichol, who heads the clinic, was fined $5,000 successful May 2024 aft a Florida State Board of Medicine regular inspection recovered instrumentality that didn’t conscionable "performance standards," and non-compliance with a hazard absorption program, according to the newspaper.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to lawyers for the session and McNichol for comment.

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