Trust completely broken - DNA test proves paternity but couple heading for divorce

A boot print in wet cement once convinced David* that his marriage was sinking.

For months, the 52-year-old doubted whether the two children who called him "Daddy" were really his, as distrust clouded his marriage. Now, DNA test results have confirmed that both Kemoy*, 10, and Kelani*, five, are indeed his biological children.

But even with the truth in hand, the marriage between David and Marsha* appears to be hanging by a thread.

"I am relieved," David told THE WEEKEND STAR after seeing the results. "There is no apology to offer to her, reason being she has been disrespectful to me in every way. Right now, we are married and on the verge of breaking up ... on the verge of divorcing."

For David, the DNA test was never just about biology, it was about betrayal. He said suspicions of infidelity, from footprints in freshly poured cement to unsettling phone calls, had poisoned the relationship long before the swabs were taken. Still, when it comes to his children, David said that the results mean a lot to him.

"They (the children) will have my full support," he said. "They already had my full support, I just had doubt ... Not that I was accusing her. I was just saying that being as how she was running around, the best thing to do is to get this done."

The children themselves remain affectionate. On THE WEEKEND STAR's first visit, they bolted across the yard, tugging at his shirt and sharing guineps as they called out "Daddy". That bond, David insists, will not change. But his future with Marsha is another matter.

"Mi need a good woman in a mi life right now," he said. "Somebody honest, who won't cheat on me and who respect me." Marsha, meanwhile, expressed mixed emotions.

"Mi feel very good," she said after the DNA confirmation. "But right now, mi nuh see nuh future going right there so."

She added that while David provides some support, tensions over money remain.

"Sunday, he gave me $6,000, $2,000 cya buy shoes, but mi take it and use the rest fi the likkle boy shoes. We had an argument after and he said mi shoulda give him back the money," she said. "Him help out with back-to-school, and it better than some weh nuh give me. Mi nah be ungrateful."

Marsha also revealed she intends to explain the results to their children herself. Her son, she said, already knew about the DNA test.

"Him always say, 'Daddy seh him anno di father'; yeah him talk 'round dem. Certain things yuh nuffi talk 'round children, and that's him...him nuh business," she said.

For Marsha, the test was never in doubt. She recalled that both children were planned.

"With Kemoy, we try, we try, we try. The amount a pregnancy test mi take! Then mi find out say mi pregnant. When him born, David seh how him proud a me ... when Kehlani born, him come to the hospital same way."

Despite her certainty, she admitted the years of suspicion have taken their toll.

"Mi cook, mi wash, mi work pon the farm, mi stay home with the children ... but all now him nuh believe mi," she said in an earlier interview.

The DNA partnership between Polygenics Consulting and THE STAR has resolved one question. But for David and Marsha, the test result has not sealed the cracks in their marriage - it has only shifted the ground beneath them.

As David put it: "Mi caah live the rest of mi life with doubt. Now mi know. But as for the rest ... mi don't know what else to do or say."

*Names changed to protect identity.