December 21, 2024
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TV show attempts to solve question of girl’s maternity

SKOWHEGAN – A woman who claims a girl she saw at a camping function is her own twin daughter stolen at birth isn’t satisfied with DNA tests conducted by a television show that indicate she’s mistaken.

Kendra Parlin of Mercer has claimed for two years that Paula Dickerson’s then 12-year-old daughter, Jaclyn Bogner, was her long-lost twin child kidnapped at birth.

Parlin claims nurses at a Waterville hospital stole her baby, forged the birth paperwork, and gave the child to Dickerson.

Parlin, Dickerson, Bogner and their friends were flown to New York City a week ago to tape the show on which the disclosure was made.

“They said I’m not the mother,” Parlin said this week after a May 26 taping of the long-running talk show. “I couldn’t believe it.”

She said the show’s producers paid for a $500 DNA swab. But she questioned whether swab tests are as accurate as blood tests.

Dickerson said she’s glad she did the show, but she doesn’t know whether Parlin really believes the outcome. Now, she said, she worries Parlin will become violent. “I know she’s angry. If she snaps, she may decide to come after me, or both of us.”

Dickerson said she was deluged with calls from television producers from many different shows, including “A Current Affair,” wanting to do a story after an article about the incident appeared in the Jan. 23 Sunday Morning (Waterville) Sentinel.


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