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Legal
Bieber baby claimer wants a second DNA test
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 28 November 2011
Legal reps for Mariah Yeater, the woman who claims that Justin Bieber fathered her child, have demanded the teen pop star take a second paternity test, this time with them in attendance.
As previously reported, the Biebster attended a clinic in the US the week before last to take a DNA test to prove he wasn’t the father of Yeater’s young son, who she claims was conceived during a very brief sexual liaison with the pop star backstage at LA’s Staples Center last year. But, with Bieber’s DNA sitting in a test tube, it then emerged the pop star’s lawyers were having trouble getting a DNA sample from Yeater’s child so to complete the paternity test.
Now it turns out that Yeater’s lawyers – who are seemingly different to the legal types who submitted her original and now withdrawn paternity lawsuit – are demanding Bieber take the test again, this time in their presence.
They are seemingly distrustful of any results from the previous test, because they did not see the pop star actually donate his saliva to the lab technicians, allowing, they say, for an alternative sample to be substituted.
Bieber’s lawyers would presumably counter that they used a respected clinic for the DNA testing whose reputation means their results should be trusted, though given that Yeater’s legal team are clearly going to push this one as far as it can go, you’d have thought they’d have invited one of the claimant’s lawyers along in the first place, just so there was no uncertainty.
Yeater attorney Jeffrey Leving told the Daily News late last week: “I want a new DNA test with both sides together at a lab in California as soon as possible. We need proper protocol and a chain of custody. For me to feel comfortable, I want a member of my legal team in the room when Justin Bieber’s genetic fluid is sampled. This case is unique in terms of media interest, celebrity, and the amount of potential child support at issue. There could be motives on the parts of many different people to corrupt the evidence”.
