Wife gives husband jacket - DNA bombshell shatters marriage

Jane* was left speechless when the DNA test results came back, revealing that her husband, Steve*, is not the biological father of her one-year-old daughter.

"I didn't expect this," she admitted, her voice trembling.

"I thought the baby was his because she looks like him," Jane continued. "But now I realise... the other man could be the father."

The couple's five-year marriage has been anything but smooth, marked by constant breakups, distrust, and emotional wounds. Their relationship was unstable from the very beginning. Just three months after saying "I do," they separated for the first time--but their connection kept drawing them back to each other.

In 2023, Jane became pregnant. At the time, she was certain the baby was Steve's. She had not been with anyone else since their reconciliation--or so she claimed. Eventually, she admitted that during one of their previous breakups, she had a brief encounter with another man--someone she has not spoken to in over a year.

Steve's doubts began during Jane's pregnancy, after an ultrasound suggested she had conceived before they resumed intimacy. Despite Jane's insistence that he was the father, Steve couldn't shake the uneasy feeling.

Still, he chose to believe her. In an act of commitment, he took out a $500,000 loan to renovate his home, hoping to create a comfortable life for Jane, her older daughter, and the new baby. But not long after the child was born, the relationship fell apart once again, and they separated.

Having seen an advertisement in this newspaper offering free DNA testing through a partnership with Polygenics Consulting, he decided to take the opportunity. But nothing could have prepared him for the truth.

"Suh me really a nuh the father?" Steve asked, stunned.

"Look how much money mi spend! Mi all tek out loan and fix up place just fi mek them comfortable and the baby a nuh fi mi," he said bitterly.

Now grappling with the harsh reality, Steve says he feels like just another victim of Jamaica's growing 'jacket' crisis -- a term used when men unknowingly raise children who aren't biologically theirs.

"Dem need fi mek the pickney dem get tested before dem leave di hospital cause too much man a spend money pan pickney weh anuh fi dem and dat a foolishness," he said, calling for mandatory paternity tests at birth to protect unsuspecting fathers.

His frustration runs deep, not just over the emotional betrayal, but the financial burden he's left carrying alone.

"Mi know seh mi naah get back none a mi money, and di worst part is she not even gi mi a dollar towards paying back di loan!" Steve fumed.

Jane had begged THE WEEKEND STAR not to share the truth with her husband, who is now prepared to file for a divorce.

"Unuh caah tell him seh him a di father?" she asked quietly, adding that she was uncertain about how to move forward.

But Steve has made up his mind.

"Mi a get a divorce! Mi will never deh back wid a dah woman deh and as long as mi live she will never get a dime from mi again!" he declared.

*names changed to protect identity