S30 E2: Who's the father? | Bad Results
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What is the story behind Coral's paternity test?
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Hi there, am I speaking to a manager or a supervisor?
Well, both prenatal and... This is cell phone video recorded by a young woman named Coral Mayer. She and her mother, Michelle Renaud, are calling a company called Viagard Acumetrics. Michelle takes the lead.
But here's the situation. So my daughter had a prenatal paternity test done, and it showed 99.99% probability that this person was the father of her unborn child. Then he recently had a DNA test done. We got the results from him yesterday showing he was not the father.
Two paternity test results from the same lab. The prenatal paternity test result says he's the baby's dad. The postnatal paternity result says he's not.
So I did a little bit of research online and both of these tests are 99.9% accurate. So it's impossible for the same person to be tested accurately and have two different results.
I would need to grab the file. Would you happen to know the case ID number?
The receptionist says something about having to go through boxes of files to find Cadell's case.
And listen, who needs to call today? You have no idea how much this affects somebody emotionally and mentally, getting a positive and negative test for the same person, because that's impossible unless the lab made a mistake. It's devastating. I'm definitely going to have the manager call you.
The manager doesn't call. But what Cadell doesn't know yet is that other people, many others, have called this company asking the same questions, looking for the same answers, for years.
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It's like, what the fuck? They, they like ruined my life.
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This all started for Coral when she was 19, living the life of a college kid studying broadcasting in North Bay, Ontario, a small city on the shores of Lake Nipissing. She had her own place, worked at a pizza joint, was into photography and filmmaking, which explains the videos you've been hearing. What's up, world? For Codal, they're a bit like diary entries. In them, she looks like a blue-eyed Maisie Williams. You know, Arya Stark from Game of Thrones? Brown hair, round face, with a delicate gold-hooped nose ring. And, how she tells it, her life back then, it was a little wild.
I at the time was pretty mentally unwell. I was very much into partying and seeing random men all of the time.
So when she started feeling a little off in July 2019 while working the night shift at the pizza joint, she had a suspicion.
I told my friend, hey, let's get a pregnancy test because I'm not feeling so well about this. So for some reason, I was too nervous to get it myself. So I asked her to get it for me. So she went to Dollarama and got me a pregnancy test. I watch it slowly move. And then I see one line and then two lines. And then I yell at my friend to come in. But I wasn't panicking. I was in shock. And she started panicking again.
Kudal is pregnant, and her gut tells her it's this one guy.
I just, like, immediately went to him to tell him, because, like, I felt that it was him.
But she can't just trust her gut. She needs to be sure.
I had to search paternity tests, but I was like, wait, I'm pregnant. So I had to do research on the difference between prenatal and a paternity test after the child is born. Then I searched prenatal paternity tests near me. And then this Viaguard Acumetrix at 1232 Kingston Road shows up. And I was like, oh, wow, this is really close.
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