Crystal Harrison, Star Writer

If a gut feeling is anything to go by then 25-year-old John Canonsays that a four-year-old boy in question is probably his.

So convinced he is that he is the father of the four-year-old, Canon has expressed that, "even if he is a jacket, me would a tek dat jacket", he said.

Canon told THE STAR recently that after meeting his now ex-girlfriend, 29-year-old Julissa Grantin 2006, in Kingston, no one could have convinced him that they would now be at odds over a child.

THE STAR understands that both parties are no longer together and questions about the child's paternity have created a 'hot-mess' in their community.

Cannon feels that the child in question is probably his because of his gut feeling and his ex-girlfriend claims that she got pregnant for one of his co-workers about two or so months after they had ended their relationship.

He said: I met her in 2006 in Barbican and me see her and approach her and we like each other and it was from there we got involved. When we started having sex she told me that she was on the family planning. Our relationship was on and off because she said that me too wild and she got involved wid one of my friends who me work wid.

She said: At the time I found out that I was pregnant he wasn't even around. I came off the contraceptive pills a couple of months before I was pregnant and I wasn't seeing him at the time.

He said: She never did know dat my friend who she was seeing at the time come a work one day and said to me that she was pregnant. I told him that she wasn't pregnant but he said that she came off the contraceptive long time. I started saying to myself that if she come off the contraceptive long time, then that child could be mine.

She said: As I said, I wasn't seeing him when I started having sex with the other guy. So I don't know why he would believe that the child is his. The only thing I can say is that recently I found out that I could have been pregnant while I was on the contraceptive so that is the only way my son could be his. Him say di child look like him, walk like him, have him head, his eyes and his complexion. I don't know about that because I think my son looks like me.

He said: My co-worker who she put di child's name in said to me that di baby did born brown and it mek him a wonder if di child a fi him. so mi call her again and ask her to tell me di truth and she said that I should do the maths.

She said: I don't really have a strong feeling that he is my son's father because honestly I wasn't thinking or dealing with him at the time I started to see the other guy. What I do know is that people in his community a say di child is his.

He said: The next yute a complain say that the child is not his. He told me that he carried the child to his mother for approval and his mother said to him, 'a weh yuh a go wid dat'. Dem say di yute don't resemble him. The man don't want to own di yute and so me tell myself that if the child is mine then I will take him. Right now people a trouble me and a say why I don't take my child.

She said: I just want to get this over with because I cant bother with the gossip. Presently the child's father is not supporting the child. we are not on speaking terms. My son's father said that he is not gonna take care of nothing dat doesn't belong to him but him a say that because of his mother.

If the child is for Canon I would put the child in his name but, I am not going back in a relationship with him.

He said: I have a big brother who thinks that the child could be mine and friends believe that too. If I know today that the child is mine then fatherhood begins today. I just want to know for sure.

When asked if he would try to rekindle the flames to their relationship if the child turns out to be his, Cannon smiled and said, "I don't know, maybe. she can be a nice girl it is just dat her head chip in and chip out," he said.

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