Posted on 01/31/2026 12:54:48 PM PST by simpson96
A Florida couple claims a fertility clinic error led to the birth of a “non-Caucasian child” who was not biologically theirs, according to a lawsuit.
Tiffany Score and Steven Mills allege that Orlando fertility clinic IVF Life, Inc., and its head reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, implanted another patient’s embryo in Score’s uterus in April 2025, the Orlando Sentinel reported on Thursday.
In 2020, Score and Mills stored three viable embryos at the clinic — which boasts about its “advanced fertility care” and “cutting-edge technology” — for in vitro fertilization, a process that creates embryos and stores them until pregnancy.
Five years later, after an embryo was implanted, the couple gave birth to a “beautiful, healthy female child” on Dec. 11, 2025, according to the lawsuit filed Jan. 22 in Orange County Circuit Court and obtained by Law & Crime.
The new parents claim they immediately knew something was wrong after the birth since they are “Caucasian” and the baby “displayed the physical appearance of a racially non-Caucasian child,” the lawsuit said.
Later genetic testing confirmed the baby had “no genetic relationship” to either parent.
Score and Mills’ attorney, John Scarola, said he sent the clinic a letter on behalf of the couple on Jan. 5 demanding it unite the baby “with her genetic parents” and explain what happened to his clients’ embryos.
Beyond the devastating mix-up, they also fear another person may have been implanted with their embryo and could be pregnant with or raising their child.(snip)
Though they are willing to raise the child themselves, the couple feels a legal and moral obligation to unite the baby with her genetic parents and hand her over to them if they wish.
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It changed. It grew. And everybody knew.
Orlando fertility clinic IVF Life, Inc. need to pay for all the child’s need until it reaches age 21.
Examples must to be made.
Oops
Beat me to it
I’m sure it is quite the coincidence but the baby seriously resembles the head of the clinic. I’m sure it is a coincidence
Poor baby. What will become of her?
[Later genetic testing confirmed the baby had
“no genetic relationship” to either parent.]
Maybe it wasn’t an accident but an activist at the clinic?
Or the clinic is on the cutting edge of incompetence?
Exactly! The baby didn’t do anything wrong.
At least they are keeping the blameless child and will probably take very good care of it.
Lawsuit should definitely pay expenses including college if the baby is smart enough to go.
Never know DNA to ensue?.
At least they are keeping the blameless child and will probably take very good care of it.
At what point, do they sit down and explain to the child what happened? And of course with the Internet, the story is already out there for everybody to see.
Our daughter’s sister-in-law was mistakenly implanted with a Down’s syndrome embryo. She (and myself and our daughter as well) is very pro-life and refused an abortion (pro-life hero). The baby is almost a year old and a precious child being raised with love. However, the clinic needs to be sued for the trauma of expecting a healthy child and having to mourn the loss of that (potential) healthy child. The clinic was also located somewhere in Florida.
Well, I did read once that one out of every three babies born is Chinese.
They have no choice to get this mess straightened out.
Someone has their baby.
Someone has their baby.
In these days of Idiocracy, and being Florida (as well as a number of other “qualifying” states), this is a major risk one takes in relying on a doctor’s hired staff to keep proper track of stored embryos. I’m rarely impressed with what is behind the greeting desks at doctor’s offices. If they find the real parents and their own child, great for them, but if that baby is Northeast Asian, they did get kind of a bonus after all.
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