Says he would help child after losing his daughters years ago

Diandra Grandison, Staff Reporter

Fifty-six-year-old Jonathan Brownis hoping that a DNA test can prove that 49-year-old Melissa Evans'four-year-old daughter belongs to him, after suffering the loss of his two daughters some years ago.

Brown and Evans met almost eight years ago, when they were working at the airport. Brown told THE STAR that the relationship developed after he gave Evans winning cash pot numbers.

Brown: "We met about seven to eight years ago while we were working at the airport. She was a very attractive lady, I gave her a cash pot number and she won and we began talking."

About three years later, Evans gave birth to a baby girl and the uncertainty about the child's paternity surfaced because the child looked 'different', and the fact that Evans was living with another man while dating Brown.

Evans: "He has doubts because he's fair complexion and she is dark like me, but I'm not sure, enuh. To tell you the truth, I'm confused. She doesn't look like my other children and people always saying how she look so different."

Brown: "I have doubts because she lives with somebody. Also my father looks almost like a white man, the baby is dark skin, but she has some characteristics of my family."

But, despite the doubts, and the fact that Evans is still living with the other man, the pair is still in a relationship.

Evans told THE STAR that the child is registered in the man she is living with name.

THE STAR asked the couple what they would like the results to state.

Evans: "I would rather it be Jonathan's, he's a very nice person and mi babyfather not nice, Jonathan will take care of her better, much better, but it's just the doubts."

Brown: "I'd really love this child to be mine because I don't have any daughters. I have six sons, I had two daughters and they died, if it's mine I will step up to the plate."

The two were then asked what would happen if the results should prove that Brown is not the child's father.

Evans: "I would be disappointed, but I would have to take it like that and just bear and go along with it.

Brown: "I would be disappointed, but it wouldn't change the relationship I have with her, but if the child is mine then it might strengthen the relationship more."

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