Chad Bryan, Staff Reporter
Twenty-one year-old Dale Fosteris hoping to be selected as this month's winner of THE STAR's Paternity Puzzle in order to find out whether a two-year-old child had by his lover, 25-year-old Jane Patrick, belongs to him.
The couple, who are still in a relationship and live together, met in 2012 through a mutual friend in Spaldings, Clarendon. They began talking to each other via phone in late December. They met face to face in January 2013.
Foster: "Her friend gave me her number because I said I wanted a woman in May Pen. Me and her start talking over the phone and we met and developed a relationship from there."
Patrick: "We met through a friend. One day he text her and asked a question, but she was doing something at the time so she asked me to text him. Long after that was when he asked her to introduce us."
Soon after their meeting, they became intimate and Patrick got pregnant. Foster believes that she had already been pregnant before they lived together. However, Patrick claimed that it was loneliness that caused her to cheat on Foster.
Foster: "When I went to live with her, she was pregnant. She had me fooled for eight months; telling me that the baby is mine. When the baby was born she told me that she doesn't believe the baby is mine."
Patrick: "No. He was to come and live with me - that was before I got pregnant. It is the day after I cheated on him he came to live with me. A friend would come and help me around the place. Honestly, I think it was loneliness at the time. I got too excited and my friend was just there for me. I just got carried away."
Despite the fact that the child is registered in another man's name, both agree that the child looks like Foster. Both also added that people have said the child looks like Foster.
The man whose name the child is registered in believes that the child is his and refuses to let go, pending the results of a DNA test.
Foster: "He said even if the child is not his, he is not going to give it up. If it is my child, I want him for myself. I will work and look after my child. I work in a big company, so I will work and take care of the child. I wouldn't like to know that the child is mine and another man is out there raising my child. I do love that little boy."
Do you have any doubts that a child is yours, or have you been denied access to a child who you believe is yours? Well, here is the chance for you to find out the truth. Contact THE STAR at
932-6271/932-6249 or 932-6282 to share your story and qualify for a chance to get a free DNA test, courtesy of Caribbean Genetics.
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