Overview

• Earlier this year, Logan Gifford petitioned Clark County Family Court for an order to determine whether his younger brother was conceived during his mother’s abuse.
• Gifford first disclosed in 2015 that his mother began sexually assaulting him at age 10, leading to her Alford plea on attempted sexual assault and incest charges.
• Their mother served nearly nine years of an eight-to-20-year sentence, was paroled in July 2024, briefly remanded for a violation, and now lives in Massachusetts as a registered sex offender.
• Now 26, Gifford serves as primary caregiver for his cognitively disabled brother and plans to seek permanent legal responsibility regardless of definitive paternity results.
• Specialists say standard DNA tests often struggle to distinguish parentage among close relatives, underscoring the need for cutting-edge genetic techniques in complex cases.