Man Left Devastated After DNA Test Showed He Isn’t The Biological Father Of His SS Carrier Son, Shares His Story: ‘Honestly, This Marriage Wrecked Me’
A Nigerian man has been left devastated after a DNA test showed he isn’t the biological father of his son, who carries the sickle cell gene.
The man, Steven Opeyemi Moses, and his wife appeared on a Nigerian-based TV courtroom show last year to table the matter.
While on the show, Moses told the court that before he and his wife got married, they carried out a genotype test and the result showed he is AA while his wife is AS. He said when their son was two years old, he was diagnosed to be SS.
He said he repeated the test twice and the results came back that he is SS. Moses said that he and his wife also repeated their test results to rule out the possibility of a mistake when they had it done before marriage and the results still came back AA for him and AS for his wife.
Moses told the court that he was confused but continued living with his wife.
“I kept on living like that until sometime in March or April (last year) when I decided this is going out of hand and that I was going for a DNA test.”
The wife while speaking to the judge said all that her husband said was true. She then mentioned to the court that her husband did not express his concerns to her but went on his own to carry out the DNA test.
The judge had ordered for a DNA test to be carried out and the results which were read in the court room indicated that the probability of paternity was 0% and that the DNA analysis was negative.
When the judge asked if she knew the father of the child in question, the wife insisted that nobody touched her. The judge then ruled that another DNA test be carried out between the wife and the child.
In a series of posts shared on his handle on Monday, March 18, Moses stated that his wife has refused to turn up for the maternity test.
Taking to Twitter to shed more light on his predicament, Mr Moses wrote,
“I am still in awe 🫢 of how we got here. We got married precisely May 21, 2016. A year down the line she got pregnant and gave birth on her birthday November 8, 2018.
The first crisis the body had we spent thousands in hospital and that’s when we first discovered he was SS.
At this point I was confused. She first told me it was the enemy that was doing us through the boy. I didn’t believe and at the same time I didn’t argue with her. I started making my research if it was possible for AA + AS to produce SS.
I saw some rare occasions of extreme weather conditions but it wasn’t possible in Nigeria as a result of good weather. I spoke to few councillors and mid-wives in Ifako General Hospital and Lagos State teaching Hospital.
We kept on living 2gether & we kept praying & fasting and nothing change. The boy kept on going through crisis. At this point we were already out of cash and could not afford a DNA test because I was already uncomfortable having confirmed from many sources that it was impossible.
For me to produce SS even when I marry SS as a AA. So I started voicing my displeasure out to my friends and one of them pointed me to Justice Court that they will do the DNA test for free. So I contacted them and arranged a sample for me and the boy for Paternity test.
Paternity test results came out in December and we had a court session where it was unveiled as seen in the video. Since December she has been dulging and refusing to pick calls from Justice Court to carry out the Judge verdict to run a maternity test.
So as I write this story, Justice Court has not been able to reach her over the phone. She is not picking calls. One funny thing in all this is, in November last year. Her family got me arrested from Ajuwon Police Station because I was not dropping upkeep for the said child.
It took intervention of our family lawyer to get the case out of police station. I remember the Police were supporting her. In December, DNA results came out and it was negative. The need to clear herself arises and she went into isolation.
The above video shows the last part that says “Is the child swap in hospital?” It may be possible but the chances are slim. I was present in the labour room and there were only two woman in labour that day. It wasn’t a hospital, it was Ojodu Health Center at Gbadamosi, Ojodu.
The other woman already gave birth while she was in labour. I remember following the nurse to clean him up & collected him back. Dropped him beside her on the bed waited for her sister to come and then I left to cook something for her. Honestly, this marriage wrecked me.”
