Help me out here on a question on DNA

Von Tonner · 05-04-08, 06:17 AM

I am referring to this bizarre case in Austria where this nut kept his daughter locked up for 24 years and fathered her kids.

When this story broke, reports at the time said DNA tests were been done to find out if the claims that he was the father of her children were true. After the tests, it was reported the claims were true.

Now here is my question. When the first baby was supposedly dropped on his front door step with a note from his missing daughter asking him and his wife to look after it why did the authorities not do a DNA test. If they had, would this test not have shown him to be the father? Rember, he played this "doorstop" trick three times. I mean, what made the authorities believe his story about "just finding these babies abandoned" on his doorstep. Surely they would have wanted to take off the table the posibility he was abducting them.

05-04-08, 06:17 AM	#1
Von Tonner Seasoned Skipper Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 711 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	Help me out here on a question on DNA I am referring to this bizarre case in Austria where this nut kept his daughter locked up for 24 years and fathered her kids. When this story broke, reports at the time said DNA tests were been done to find out if the claims that he was the father of her children were true. After the tests, it was reported the claims were true. Now here is my question. When the first baby was supposedly dropped on his front door step with a note from his missing daughter asking him and his wife to look after it why did the authorities not do a DNA test. If they had, would this test not have shown him to be the father? Rember, he played this "doorstop" trick three times. I mean, what made the authorities believe his story about "just finding these babies abandoned" on his doorstep. Surely they would have wanted to take off the table the posibility he was abducting them.