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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 9, 1993                   TAG: 9304090096
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SARASOTA, FLA.                                LENGTH: Short

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BABY-SWAP GIRL WANTS TO DIVORCE REAL PARENTS

A teen-ager at the center of a bitter baby-swap battle between two families wants to divorce her biological parents and end the tug of war, the man who raised her said Thursday.

"She's adamant in wanting to do this. It's her decision," said Bob Mays, who raised 14-year-old Kimberly Mays from birth.

"She says, `Hey, I have a life, too. Why is everybody going to the courtroom and making decisions about my life and nobody is asking me?"'

Kimberly wants to sue for divorce from her birth parents, Ernest and Regina Twigg, who have been fighting for visitation rights since learning in 1988 that she was their daughter.

The Twiggs had raised another girl, Arlena, but after she died of a heart defect they discovered through tissue tests that she was the biological daughter of Mays and his late wife, Barbara. The Twiggs then searched for their biological child and found Kimberly.

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