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US woman’s twins have two different fathers

A bizarre paternity case in the US has reveals that one year old twins are only half-siblings.

A man filing a paternity test suit in the state of New Jersey over his ex-girlfriend’s twins has been given some strange news.

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The man, who filed against a woman he has previous sexual relationship with, claimed that the twins he was paying child support for weren’t his, as his relationship with their mother was never exclusive.

After the mother of the twins admitted to having sexual intercourse with another man during the same week, a New Jersey judge agreed to enforce a paternity test, and the results weren’t what they were expecting.

It turns out that the man was the father… but only to one of them.

In what could be an episode of Grey’s Anatomy, the doctors reveals that although the children are twins, they’re only half-siblings.

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The woman engaged in sexual intercourse with both men in the same week, causing two eggs to be fertilised by different fathers.

This rare phenomenon occurs in around 0.00007% of paternity cases and has own ever been seen twice in America.

The man has been charged to pay $28 a week in child support for his twin.

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