Tests To Show If Baby Is Missing Woman's

(CBS/AP)  DNA tests to determine whether a newborn baby found on a porch is the daughter of a missing pregnant woman likely won't be done until next week, authorities said Wednesday.

"We're obviously speeding things up, but it's not something that can be rushed," said Robert Budgake, director of the Canton-Stark County Crime Lab.

Jessie Davis, 26, due to deliver a girl July 3, hasn't been heard from since a phone call with her mother on June 13. The sheriff in the neighboring county where the baby was found, Thomas Maurer, said he does not believe there is a connection between the baby and Davis.

A couple discovered the newborn, her umbilical cord tied off with a rubber band, Monday night on the porch of their rural home near Wooster, about 45 miles from Davis' home near North Canton. The baby, who was less than 24 hours old, was in a wicker basket and dressed in a sleeper.

"We're using every caution we can" to identify the baby or eliminate the possibility that she is related to Davis, Maurer said.

Davis' family says her baby is biracial, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

But the paper also says Sue Redman described the girl found on her porch as white. She and her husband believe it more likely the infant came from someone familiar with the wife's work as a school nurse and board member at a local free clinic.

They found the child when they returned from dinner Monday evening to their home south of Wooster.

"We both were in shock. It was a newborn, well, an infant, laying just as peacefully as can be in a basket," Don Redman told CBS affiliate WOIO.

The discovery of the baby may be a coincidence.

"It's very hard actually to tell if the baby is actually 24 hours or 48 hours or 72 hours, so I'm not quite sure I believe the exact number on that. If the baby is only 1 day old, I'm doubting it's hers," criminal profiler Pat Brown said on CBS News' The Early Show.

DNA was collected from the infant using a mouth swab, but Budgake declined to describe the samples from Davis that will be compared to the baby's genetic material. Results are expected Monday or Tuesday, he said.

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[goodgrief8]

mormonman1, I don't know if you are playing a sick joke for a reaction or if you actually believe this but god knows I have even a greater reason to slam the door in the faces of mormons now. sadly you people have nothing better to do than go door to door selling your bull****. obviously you are no man and certainly not a parent. aren't yo supposed to be out recruiting into your cult or something?

[goodgrief8]

enrapturelj, God didn't write the bible a bunch of men did, sorry I have been reading all the comments out of curiosity and felt that needed to be said because saying god literally wrote the bible is a tad ignorant in itself. I hope she is found safe, or at the very least her child-its a human life missing and race plays no part whatsoever. She is somebodies daughter, sister and mother.

[wiccantexan]

From another news source:

When Porter (Jessie's mom) was asked Friday by NBC's "Today" show if she considered Cutts a suspect, she replied: "Yes, he's a suspect."

"I still pray that it's not him," she added. "That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a suspect, as well."

"It's a very emotional roller coaster feeling for me because he is my grandson's father," she said. "I'm hoping and praying for the best. I just want to find my daughter."

Porter added that if someone did harm her daughter, she hopes it was a stranger.

"This is the most painful part of this whole thing for me is that I pray every day that it's not Bobby Cutts, that it's my prayer that it's not him," she told CNN. "I want it to be someone that doesn't even know us."

[wiccantexan]

Or she died giving birth. Cutts was so beside himself that all he could do is wrap Jessie up in the rug looking blanket and take her and the baby somewhere. Out of not knowing what else to do with the baby, he delivered (or had delivered) the baby to a well known nurse's doorsteps.Posted by currentnews at 03:48 PM : Jun 20, 2007

This would entail him being out of town during all this timeframe, which he hasn't been. He's been in town with police and the investigation.

[wiccantexan]

And as a Christian I do believe that she has evoked eternal damnation for her fornicating, adulterous ways. Posted by enrapturelj at 05:27 PM : Jun 20, 2007

And God so loved Blake that he let him (probably) see the whole crime, forever scarring his baby heart and taking his mother away. What was your point exactly?

[wiccantexan]

Why are they waiting on the DNA test? The clock is ticking for Jessie, if she's still alive. The baby's ID could be a valuable clue.

[annia1233]

what I can not get over is how these people that talk and make the racial disparity distinction can see any difference between a woman and a man that love eachother. If she got two children from this guy, it is because she considered him her partner. hat do you all know about their relationship and what type of father he was?
I just get frustrated when people see nothing but color. I am in a biracial relationship. the color is irrelevant, the culture is irrelevant. I understand this person so well that even if my partner was a martian, my partner would be mine. Because it is just a relation of people, no colors.

[bethoughtful]

Has anyboby put themselves in the place of this mother or father? If this was your daughter missing would you want people to set around and analyze what may or may not have happened. What you should be doing is praying to God that maybe she's alive or that maybe just maybe if she is dead that the baby is hers so that aleast this family could would have a bittersweet ending. Regardless this is a sad situation and we all should be more thougtful of the people involved.

[currentnews]

To CarlyLaine the racist.

Save your racist comments for when you go to Hell. There you can discuss your lowlife uneducated simpleminded opinions with Hitler, and Satan can supply the refreshments.

[daniel2alex]

First of all, you have a beautiful young women missing and her beautiful little boy's life shattered and all you can talk about is she shouldn't have dated a black man!!! What if it was your "white" daughter? I bet if she was missing, the fact that she had a "black" boyfriend would be the least of your conerns. Second, concerning the reports that the baby is white and not bi-racial. How many black babies have theses people seen born? I've seen many and they all "look" white for the first week to first few months until their unique skin tone is developed. People and the media are so stupid!