Jorge Barrera
speaker
197 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Jorge Barrera’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is a rare moment for Coral. Everyone here knows what she's going through, that she still doesn't know who the dad is, and that she's waiting on results from a second DNA test. But for one afternoon, they can all just relax a little, celebrate. A couple weeks later, she gets the results from the second DNA test. Over the phone, an Acumetrix rep tells her this guy, he's the father.
But this man does little more than send emojis. He leaves Kodal mostly alone to face her pregnancy.
Karel records this in her bathroom. Her eyes are red, her face drained of colour. The dad-to-be shows up for only one ultrasound when Qaral is seven months pregnant. She phones him later, after the appointment.
When baby Harlow was born on March 7th, he's not there.
When I spoke to him, he told me he'd always wanted a second test. That when he held Harlow for the first time, shortly after her birth, he said he felt sure at that moment she wasn't his daughter. For her part, Codal is exhausted. She doesn't need another fight, but they go back to Acumetrix, which offers them a postnatal paternity test.
Which is how could Al and her mother Michelle end up on the phone with Acumetrix? They don't understand what is happening. All these tests, all these conflicting results.
Cadell's mom, Michelle, shares her frustration.
Kodal's baby is now six months old, and Kodal is back where she started.
So she calls up the first guy again, the one her gut told her was the dad, asks him to do another test, but with a different company. These results say he is the dad, but he's a bit wary and doesn't totally trust these new results. He wants yet another test. So they do one more. 14 months and 5 paternity tests with 3 different companies later, they finally have an answer.
This man, the first man Kodal tested with, he's the father. And all the emotions that have swamped Kodal throughout all of this, well, they all harden into one. Anger.
Coral and her mom, Michelle, don't know it yet. But the guy they're talking to is Kyle Sui. As far as we've been able to work out, Kyle is the second in command at Acumetrix. He's the technical manager. He oversees quality control for sample collection.
After the refund, Acumetrix closes the file, moves on. But not Coudal.
So Cadell starts digging into Acumetrix and comes across reviews that weren't online when she first looked up the company two years earlier. And she finds a connection she hadn't seen before. Prenatal Paternities Inc. and Viagard Acumetrix, they're the same company. And she discovers something else. She's not alone.
Kodal helps set up a Facebook page for people burned by the laboratory's prenatal paternity tests. And it grows quickly.
Dozens join, like this woman from Guatemala.
There's a couple from Victoria who almost had an abortion after an Acumetrix test.
And there's a woman from Montreal. She finds out when her son is six years old that Accumetrix got his biological dad wrong.
And John Brennan, the man who raised a baby boy for eight months before learning the results of his tests were wrong, he finds his way to the group as well.
In January 2021, Kodal and her Facebook group reach out to me.
When I finally get the chance to drop in on one of their regular group calls, there are people on the line from at least three different U.S. states, a couple from Central America and Kodal.
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