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GM SAYS JETS TRYING TO HELP CROMARTIE AMID PAYMENT RUMOURS 

The Canadian Press
3/9/2010 1:32:16 AM

NEW YORK -- Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum wouldn't comment directly Monday about reports the team is helping Antonio Cromartie with his paternity payments, but said they're working with him to "give him his best chance to be successful."

The NFL Network first reported Saturday that the Jets were advancing their newly acquired cornerback US$500,000 to help clear up paternity issues.

The 25-year-old Cromartie has fathered seven children by six women in five states. He has a court date scheduled for later this month in California.

Cromartie, acquired last week from San Diego, is due to make $1.7 million in the last season of his five-year, $12-million contract. The Jets reportedly made $500,000 of the deal into a bonus, allowing Cromartie to receive it now, instead of when players receive game checks in September.

"We don't usually talk about those things," Tannenbaum told reporters. "All I would say is we're working with Antonio to give him his best chance to be successful. It's still the same one-year deal. I don't want to go into the specifics, but I think it's one of these situations where hopefully he can resolve some things and go into the off-season program and concentrate on being a Jet, learning the defence and hitting the ground running."

Gary Wichard, Cromartie's agent, didn't immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment.

"I made some wrong decisions in my first two years in the NFL and now I have to take on that responsibility of being a father to my kids," Cromartie said during a conference call Friday after the trade. "That's what I have to do."

Cromartie was considered one of the rising talents in the league in 2007, when he was an All-Pro in his second season after getting an NFL-leading 10 interceptions, but has struggled since -- both on and off the field.

The Chargers dealt him to the Jets in exchange for a conditional third-round draft pick in 2011 that could become a second-rounder based on his production. Cromartie will team with All-Pro Darrelle Revis to potentially form one of the league's top cornerback tandems.

Knoxville, TN (AHN) - When authorities in Tennessee took 29-year-old Desmond Hatchett to court to force him to pay child support for four of his children, they found out that he is also the father of 17 other kids.

Hatchett told reporters that he was not trying to set a U.S. record, which he may have, but, "It just happened."

The children are from 11 different mothers. The kids range in age from newborn to 11 years old. He told reporters that he fathered four of his children from different women in one year.

Hatchett's attorney said his client only earns minimum wage, so he needs state assistance to help support his kids.

According to The Smoking Gun, Hatchett also has a criminal record that runs 14 pages long, including one arrest on a domestic violence charge.

Authorities in Tennessee are also bracing for the possibility other women will come forward claiming that Hatchett is the father of their children.

Mother Gives Birth To Twins With Different Fathers, US

1-month old Dallas-born twins Justin and Jordan have different fathers, a phenomenon known as heteropaternal superfecundation that is so rare there are only a handful of documented cases in the world.

Their parents Mia Washington and her fiance James Harrison went public with their news last week when they contacted FOX4 to tell their story.

Admitting she was having an affair with another man at the time the twins were conceived, Washington said she was shocked that it had happened to her:

"I have twins, but they're by different fathers," she told the TV news company.

Washington and Harrison noticed that the twins had different facial features and decided to have a paternity test. They went to Dallas DNA Lab Clear Diagnostics who said they had never seen a result like this before and that there was a 99.999 per cent chance that Justin and Jordan were fathered by different men.

The highly probable result is that Jordan is Harrison's biological son and Justin's biological father is the man Washington had an affair with.

Lab Clear Diagnostics' president Genny Thibodeaux described the news as "very crazy", and "most people don't believe it can happen".