Baby Switched, DNA Test Confirms

BUENA VISTA, Va. —  A DNA test confirmed that one of two babies who were apparently switched at a hospital three years ago was indeed sent home with the wrong parents, a lawyer said Tuesday.

The test proved that 3-year-old Rebecca Grace Chittum is the biological daughter of Paula K. Johnson, said Peter Robey, an attorney for the family that took Rebecca home. Johnson has been raising the other 3-year-old, Callie Marie Johnson, as her own.

DNA testing on Callie is under way.

The couple who raised Rebecca, Whitney Rogers and Kevin Chittum, died in a car crash July 4, the day after Johnson learned through court-ordered genetic testing that Callie was not her biological child.

Rebecca is now being raised by Whitney Rogers’ parents.