Jorge Barrera
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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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Harvey tells her, nail clippings. In January 2014, Sarah sends in the first set of samples. Her blood, a mouth swab from John, and nail clippings from Micah, which she gathers on the sly. She's now three months pregnant and desperate to know.
And there is this one receptionist.
This goes on for six weeks, call after call, until finally, Sarah gets an answer. According to Viagra Documentrics, John is the biological dad. Micah's results?
That's what Sarah wants. A definitive yes or no. So she drops another $200 on top of the $800 she's already shelled out. This time, she swipes Micah's used razor blades for the test. Micah is still in the dark about Sarah's doubts. She's now six months pregnant and still waiting for that yes or no.
But the results from Micah's sample come back as inconclusive for a second time. So Sarah breaks the news to Micah.
Sarah packs up her stuff and leaves the spacious apartment she shares with Micah.
John dotes on Sarah and his family embraces her.
It's a first pregnancy for them both. And together, they plan a California birth.
When Sarah's contractions begin, her room at the Berkeley Birthing Center is ready. The midwives are waiting. The lights dimmed. It's going to be sublime.
John is there through the pain, the cursing. He also has a specific assignment.
And once again she's on the phone.
She keeps asking to speak with Harvey but now Harvey is never around.
So Sarah tells the receptionist, find me someone else to speak with.
He never calls back. So she does the American thing. She lawyers up. And on the day of her daughter's second birthday, Sarah files a lawsuit against Acumetrix.
It's Good Friday, 2017, when Sarah Domenico arrives at a U.S. federal court building for the Northern District of California. It's been 10 months since she filed her lawsuit against Acumetrix. 10 months of paper sparring, the usual in civil litigation. She's seeking damages for the despair, frustration, and humiliation Acumetrix inflicted by its wrong results. It's a big moment.
Sarah's doing what no other victim has done, pursuing a case against Acumetrix. For its part, Acumetrix's filings say Sarah's got no case and it should be tossed.
Accumetrix is here to settle. They've put an offer on the table. Sarah, though, she wants to go to trial. She's determined to put this company out of business. But inside the judges' chambers, she feels like she's the one on trial.
Sarah signs on the dotted line, agreeing to Acumetrix's terms, which means she can't disclose the financial details of the settlement. She didn't get the accountability she wanted, but at first Sarah feels that the settlement is kind of a win.
She marries Micah. They have two children. Life, it flows on. But seven years later, there's still regret. Regret she listened to advice that reduced her to a caricature, the loose woman. It flattened everything she had gone through, turned all her emotions from heartbreak to anger into a single feeling. Shame.
And this specific type of shame runs through the stories of almost every woman we interviewed for this podcast. And this shame kept them isolated, sapping the will to fight the company.
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