Dad Notices Daughter’s Skin Is Much Lighter than His, Secretly Takes Her for DNA Test

A dad was jubilant when his fourth daughter was born. However, his happiness was cut short when he started noticing different physical features on his daughter that made him feel like the girl was not his. The dad delved into an investigation that completely changed and intertwined the lives of two families.

A family on the Colombian Caribbean Coast was hit by a huge revelation that necessitated big changes when a father doubted that the girl in his house, whom he called his daughter and loved, was his.

The dad, José Hernández, desperately wanted to know if the girl he had raised for four years, provided for and protected, was really his biological daughter. The father embarked on an investigation to find out the truth.

José's daughter, Salome, was born on March 21, 2016, at approximately 2:50 p.m. at ESE Hospital Niño Jesús in the city of Barranquilla. The father was not present when the girl was born as he was at work, but he received the news with great happiness.

José said that everything was okay when Salome was born as the birth was registered in his name, and everything took place as normal. However, he admitted that from the first moment he saw her, he felt inside him that something wasn't right.

Why He Had Doubts About His Daughter

The first thing José spotted that was not right with Salome was her physical appearance. He noted that her feet did not have the unique feature that his other daughters shared. José already had three girls, and the one he had doubts about was his fourth daughter.

José dismissed the first warning sign as his emotions were strong, and he continued to care for and love Salome. However, as time passed, the feeling that she wasn't his became stronger.

As Salome grew older, José noticed that her skin was whiter and the features of her face did not match those of his three other daughters. He became more concerned about her light skin, which was unlike his dark skin, which made people call him "the black one."

The girl looked less and less like him each day. She also did not look like her mother or anyone from her family. José never stopped carrying out his responsibility as Salome's father or developing a relationship with her, but the idea that she wasn't his daughter grew deeper roots inside him.

Eventually, Ana agreed that they should do a DNA test together with her girl.

In 2019, at the end of May, José decided to learn the truth about Salomé, as the idea that she wasn't his became unbearable.

The dad told Salome's mother he was taking the little girl to Barranquilla to buy her new shoes. Instead, he took her to a laboratory in the city to have a DNA test performed on them. José said he was shocked by the results:

"When I received the results that the girl was incompatible with me, at first I thought that it had been a hoax, that they were taking me for a fool."

After the DNA test confirmed his doubts, José went to confront Salomé's mother, Norelis. He demanded the truth about their daughter, thinking she had lied to him.

However, Norelis, too, was shocked by this news, and she assured José that she hadn't been with anyone else, so Salomé was his daughter. José wasn't convinced and told Norelis that if she had nothing to hide, then she should also take a DNA test.

On June 25, 2019, the results of the test came out showing that Norelis was 99 percent incompatible with her daughter, shocking the family even more.

Learning The Truth

Confused by the mind-boggling DNA test results, José asked himself, "Where is my daughter?" In order to find answers, he embarked on another investigation to find his biological daughter.

José used Salomé's identity documents to file an appeal that would force the hospital to give him records of all the natural and Cesarian births that happened between March 20 and 22, 2016. The dad wanted to find the clues that would lead him to his biological daughter.

On September 19, 2019, he received records that showed him five girls and two boys had been born on March 21, 2016.

José decided to carry out his own investigation despite Norelis' objections. requests. She didn't want to pursue the search because she had no great hope of finding her biological daughter. Moreover, she was already fond of the girl she had raised as her own for four years.

Determined to find his biological daughter, José continued with his investigation, focusing on only the girls born that day. He settled on a birth that was registered a few minutes after Salome was born. The birth mother registered was Ana Cecilia Cano, who lived in Chimichagua, a small town in Cesar.

José found her on Facebook, and in her profile picture, she appeared with a little girl. José looked at the little's girls' picture and saw her features were similar to his. He became convinced that this girl, who appeared to be the same age as his biological daughter should have been, was his daughter.

The dad started sending messages to Ana alongside photos of Salomé. It took Ana 20 days to reply as she was fearful of the man claiming to be her daughter's biological father. The two kept exchanging many messages and photos of Salomé.

Eventually, Ana agreed that they should do a DNA test together with her girl. The DNA test results revealed that the girl, whom Ana had named Saray, was the biological daughter of José and Norelis. The results also showed Ana was Salomé's biological mother.

The two families, now permanently changed, were faced with a difficult decision on how to raise their girls. The mothers refused to exchange the girls because they had learned to love the one they had been raising.

On the other hand, José admitted that he was fond of Salomé but wanted to be involved in raising his biological daughter, Saray. He added that he had already lost years with Saray and didn't want to lose more:

"From my heart, I want to have my biological girl, I can't pretend to keep the two girls because there is another family that also needs her. But I do want to have my biological daughter and also stay present in the life of the daughter I have raised up to now."

José has already had the two girls in his home in Santo Tomás. Salomé and Saray have accepted each other as sisters. José added that Saray had already gotten used to the idea that he was his birth father. He said that the two families are on very good terms.

Ana and Norelis, the mother of the two girls, had a difficult time exchanging their daughters, whom they had raised and considered their own. But as much as the mothers did not want to exchange their daughters, they were forced to do so legally.

A judge ruled that Saray had to be given to her biological mother, and Salomé returned to her biological parents. The birth record of the two girls was also corrected, and their surnames changed.

José was filled with sadness when he returned Salomé to Ana, having loved her with his whole heart. However, he was happy to take Saray home, calling her his "princess."

Saray and Salomé now live with their biological parents, approximately 8 hours apart. However, despite the judge's order, José said he wanted to continue raising Saray and Salomé as if they were sisters.

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