It’s very rare for a woman to give birth to twins with different fathers - but not, as it turns out, impossible.
A man, known for legal reasons by his initials of A.S, had gone to court to contest his paternity of the twins, saying he didn’t feel he should be paying child support.
The babies’ mother, known as TM, had given birth in January 2013 and named A.S as the father when she filed for benefits.
He contested the claim, saying that their sexual relationship had not been exclusive.
And, spewing in court, TM confessed that she had slept with another man in the same week that the twins were conceived.
In a bid to bring the case to a satisfactory conclusion, Judge Sohail Mohammad ordered a DNA test - and the results were shocking.
A.S. was the father of one twin… but he definitely wasn’t the father of the other.
Judge Mohammad explained that it is possible for a woman to have two of her eggs fertilised by two different men if she had sex with both during the same menstrual cycle.
The phenomenon is known as heteropaternal superfecundation, and is very rare, affecting only one in every 13,000 paternity cases involving twins.
As a result of the findings, Judge Mohammad ruled that A.S owes $28 a week in child support, to go towards the care of his biological daughter.
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