A DNA test ordered by the District and Juvenile Court in Accra to help establish the parentage of a six-month-old baby boy has thrown the issue into further controversy, following the outcome that neither the woman nor the man she accuses of neglect is biologically linked to the child. Consequently, the Sakumono District Police Command has begun fresh investigations into the case to determine where the baby came from and whether it was stolen or given out willingly and under what condition. The court, presided over by Mrs Cynthia Wiredu, had ordered the man and the woman to go for the DNA test, since the man had insisted that the woman had faked the pregnancy to blackmail him. But when specimens from the two, as well as that of the child, were taken for tests at the Fairfax Laboratory in South Africa, the results indicated that the baby was excluded as the biological son of either parent. According to the police, the story started about three years ago when Mr Ernest Opoku, 43, a Ghanaian resident in Switzerland, rented out his shop at Sakumono to the woman, Celestine 0wusu, 39, a businesswoman. Mr Opoku said later Celestine told him that she had been ejected from her rented apartment and wanted to lodge in the shop with her 20-year-old daughter, but he decided to offer her a room in his six-bedroom apartment on humanitarian grounds. The relationship later developed into a romantic one. After a while, however, the relationship turned sour and the man decided to eject the woman from his apartment but she refused to move, claiming that she was his legitimate wife and was pregnant with his baby. Mr Opoku, however, discounted the claim, since, according to him, the relationship had been broken more than two years earlier and proceeded to report the matter to the police for investigations. The magistrate then ordered for the DNA examination and specimens from the two were taken at the MEDLAB Laboratory and forwarded to South Africa. In the end, the results excluded both parents from the child. Upon receipt of the results, the magistrate issued a bench warrant for Celestine's arrest. She made her second appearance at the court on Thursday, during which the DNA result was presented to her. In the court, however, Celestine stood her ground, insisting that the baby belonged to Mr Opoku and that she had no faith in the DNA result from South Africa, based on which the magistrate ordered for a second DNA test, this time at Celestine's expense. Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana