On September 16, 2019, Cohn's father, Dustin Cohn, took to Facebook to address the speculation about his daughter's age. In the since-deleted post, he claimed that she was 13 years old — not 15, as her social media profiles suggested at the time.
"I have decided to set things straight about my daughter Danielle Cohn," the post read. "For years I have done the diplomatic thing while dealing with my daughter being online in a way I didn't approve of and trying to have it handled out of social media because I figured the system would work and keep my daughter safe."
Cohn added that he'd voiced concerns about his daughter's social media exposure in the past, to no avail.
"We found Pinterest boards with her photos and I told her mom I worried about pedophiles," he wrote. "The pictures now have gotten worse and worse. I am finally saying something on social media because people need to be held accountable."
Cohn's friend, Blake Lyons, commented on the post with a photo of what appeared to be Danielle Cohn's birth certificate. The document listed her date of birth as March 7, 2006 (meaning, if the paperwork was legitimate, Cohn would have been 13 at the time).
Insider was unable to confirm whether the birth certificate in the photo was, in fact, Danielle Cohn's, as Florida birth records are confidential per Florida statutes.
The certificate, however, does appear to match what a Florida birth record would have looked like in 2006. The document includes the signature of the state registrar in 2006, C. Meade Grigg — and the lower-right-hand corner of the paper features a Florida Department of Health logo consistent with the logo used in 2006 (one that has not been in use since 2013).
In June of 2020, Cohn addressed his daughter's age again, briefly creating a YouTube channel in which he posted several videos on the subject. In one clip, he presented his daughter's birth certificate, promising viewers that he'd "show it again" to prove that she was 14 years old (and not 16, as her updated social media profiles suggest). The YouTube channel, however, is no longer available.