Florida couple reaches custody agreement with 6-month-old’s biological parents after embryo mixup at Orlando facility

A Florida couple has reached a custody agreement with the biological parents of a 6-month-old girl following an embryo mixup at a fertility clinic. According to court documents, Steven Mills and Tiffany Score will keep permanent custody of their daughter, Shea. The couple, who are white, discovered last year that they weren t genetically related to Shea after giving birth to her and seeing she is a different ethnicity from them. Tiffany underwent a C-section, and it was a very difficult birth, but ultimately it produced a beautiful little girl. A little girl who much to their surprise had a very different appearance from what they had expected. It became very apparent within a short period of time that the child that they had born was not their child, said Jack Scarola, the family s attorney. The fertilization error occurred at an Orlando clinic. Staff at the clinic implanted what they thought was one of the couple s embryos, but genetic tests confirmed that they were no