NYC woman had abortion at 20 weeks after paternity test — only to find out lab was wrong

A Yonkers female made nan hellish determination to abort her babe aft getting nan results of a paternity trial — only to find retired months later nan results were wrong, she said successful a lawsuit.

Now alternatively of readying a babe ablution and getting fresh for her daughter’s impending birth, nan female is dealing pinch nan affectional wreckage of losing her kid and her semipermanent narration because of nan alleged correction by Winn Health Labs successful nan Bronx and Ohio-based DNA Diagnostics Center, according to tribunal papers.

“My girl would person been calved connected nan 17th” of April, she told The Post done tears. “I’m grieving.

“I conscionable person a batch of emotions. These results were nan logic why I decided to do what I did.”

The administrative assistant, 28, and her then-fiancé had been struggling to get pregnant erstwhile they collapsed up for 3 weeks past summertime successful portion because of nan “stress and aggravation” from their inability to conceive, she said successful a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.

During nan hiatus, she had activity pinch personification other but utilized a condom during nan encounter, claimed nan woman, who asked to stay anonymous.

She and nan fiancé sewage backmost together, and by August, she was pregnant for nan first clip — and assured her longtime emotion was nan dad.

“I was search my ovulation,” she said.

But wanting to beryllium wholly judge — and not wanting to alert her fiancé to nan activity she had pinch different man during their break — nan female sought a paternity trial pinch nan different man.

The first 2 tests costs a full of much than $1,000 and results were inconclusive.

So nan brace recovered DNA Diagnostics Center online, a institution which boasts having done much than 20 cardinal tests which tin beryllium utilized successful tribunal and touts itself arsenic “world leaders successful DNA testing.”

In October, nan 2 traveled to a Winn Health Labs installation connected Randall Avenue successful nan Bronx, which is astatine nan rear of a hairsbreadth salon, to supply samples for nan testing to beryllium done by DNA Diagnostics, according to Manhattan Federal Court papers.

So assured that nan pending trial would show nan impermanent person was not nan father, she moreover hosted a gender-reveal statement pinch her fiancé while waiting for nan results.

But a telephone from nan laboratory connected Halloween near her successful “utter surprise, disappointment and frustration,” erstwhile she was told her fling was nan babydaddy pinch “99.99% certainty,” according to tribunal papers first reported by NBC News.

By then, she was astir 20 weeks pregnant and staring down New York’s 24-week deadline for ineligible abortion. She was forced to uncover nan mother of each dramas to her fiancé.

“He conscionable cried,” she recalled. “He asked, ‘Why would you spell done a gender reveal?’ I told him, ‘Because I was affirmative it was yours.'”

During a grueling, two-day pregnancy-termination procedure, she had a alteration of heart. But it was excessively precocious and doctors could not prevention nan baby.

“I wish I could reverse this,” she said.

Reeling, nan female and her fiancé stayed together until Valentine’s Day — erstwhile DNA Diagnostics abruptly called pinch unthinkable news.

The results she’d been fixed were owed to an “IT error,” nan laboratory told nan woman, according to nan lawsuit. The man she had activity pinch only erstwhile was not nan begetter of nan kid she’d aborted.

Devastated, nan female and her fiancé ended their narration past month.

“For 30 years, DDC has provided reliable and meticulous testing to millions of customers,” nan institution said successful a statement. “If immoderate interest is raised, we return immediate action to validate nan results and quickly notify customers of immoderate issues. We understand and admit nan unthinkable magnitude of spot group spot successful america to get this right, and we expend each effort to meet that precocious standard.”

Winn Health Labs didn’t respond to a connection seeking comment.

The female still doesn’t cognize really nan correction was made, her lawyer, Craig Phemister, said.

“When you cognize group are relying instantly connected paternity tests to make life decisions, why did it return 4 months for them to call? It conscionable doesn’t make sense,” he said.

Now she’s successful therapy — and wants nan labs progressive held accountable.

“How galore different group did it hap to?” she said.