Man who says his mother raped him as a child has been declared the legal father of his 16-year-old brother
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Logan Gifford, 26, told a Nevada court that years of abuse beginning when he was 10 left him convinced his sibling could also be his son. A paternity case has now confirmed him as the boy’s legal father after the judge ruled that no other resolution was possible.
Logan first went to authorities at 16, reporting that his mother, Doreene Gifford, had sexually abused him since he was just 10. Even then, he came to believe that his younger brother is possibly his biological son.
He believed that he was conceived around the latter part of his years of abuse. A decade later, he filed a paternity case asking a judge for an advanced DNA test to determine the answer.
The results showed that Logan and his father, Theodore Gifford, shared a 99.9% match to his disabled sibling.
As per Family Court Judge Vincent Ochoa, ‘The DNA test conducted does not have a final determination as to one of the two’.
His mother, Doreene Gifford, was convicted of raping him in 2015, leading to a sentence of 8 to 20 years in prison.
Even so, the judge declared Logan as the father as Theodore refused to participate in the court case. ‘I can’t make Theodore the father if he doesn’t want to participate,’ he said.
‘I’m going to grant the default and declare Logan Gifford to be the legal father of the child. This is the only solution we have. The DNA test was conducted, and it eliminated everyone except for two individuals; only one of those individuals is willing to participate in this case.
