Man bitter after paying 15 years maintenance for child who wasn't his
Published: 2013 June 12 17:13:45 (4157 Views)
A man who has been paying child maintenance for 15 years claims he was scammed by the baby's mother.
The man (35) from Umlazi, south of Durban is heart broken and wants to warn other men who may have been taken for a ride by fraudulent women.
"I know a lot of men are raising kids that are not theirs," he said. "They must be careful and have their children tested for DNA." The father of five claimed that he had just discovered that a girl he's been supporting for 15 years is not his.
"I had a relationship with a woman before I got married and she gave birth to a baby girl. She said I was the father."
But the man said he became suspicious after the child was born because every time he held her, she cried.
"I asked elders what that meant and they said it could be that the child was not mine. I ignored that and carried on being a father because I could not bear the thought of the little princess not being mine."
As time passed, he broke up with the woman.
"Last year I got married and that angered the woman. She took me to the maintenance court for child support and my family advised me to do a paternity test," he said. "The results came back negative. My worst fears, that the child was not mine, were confirmed. All I want is for that woman to pay back all maintenance costs since the child's birth because she made me raise someone else's child."
The child's mother, a nurse at GJ Crookes Hospital in Scottsburgh, maintains that the man was her child's father.
"I want a second test done because I do not believe the first one. Something could've gone wrong," she said.
- DailySun
The man (35) from Umlazi, south of Durban is heart broken and wants to warn other men who may have been taken for a ride by fraudulent women.
"I know a lot of men are raising kids that are not theirs," he said. "They must be careful and have their children tested for DNA." The father of five claimed that he had just discovered that a girl he's been supporting for 15 years is not his.
"I had a relationship with a woman before I got married and she gave birth to a baby girl. She said I was the father."
But the man said he became suspicious after the child was born because every time he held her, she cried.
"I asked elders what that meant and they said it could be that the child was not mine. I ignored that and carried on being a father because I could not bear the thought of the little princess not being mine."
As time passed, he broke up with the woman.
"Last year I got married and that angered the woman. She took me to the maintenance court for child support and my family advised me to do a paternity test," he said. "The results came back negative. My worst fears, that the child was not mine, were confirmed. All I want is for that woman to pay back all maintenance costs since the child's birth because she made me raise someone else's child."
The child's mother, a nurse at GJ Crookes Hospital in Scottsburgh, maintains that the man was her child's father.
"I want a second test done because I do not believe the first one. Something could've gone wrong," she said.
- DailySun
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