Thanks for that Mike- so this means she can't have just been a one night stand?
That makes even less sense still- she was close to him and yet failed to list him on the birth certificate and failed to pursue him for child support? The mother keeps it a secret from everyone including her family and the father's family (and thus the child) when it is a one night stand or the like.
There are 4 common situations which play themselves out:
1) The mother regrets having any kind of relationship with the father and wants no one to know about such relationship and doesn't want the father in her life or her child's life so refuses to list the father on the birth certificate or to allow anyone to know. Obviously such a person would not be attending the appeal and telling people her daughter is his child.
2) The mother has relations with multiple men around the time of conception and doesn't know who the father is. This obviously would preclude being able to say Jeremy was the father.
3) A woman out for attention, money or in search of a stable spouse makes up that her child's father is someone other than the true father and tries to get the fake father to help raise/support the child or tries to use such to garner fame or something else.
4) A woman and man conspire to pretend the man is the child's father because of some agenda they have. An example of this is Ron DeFeo (of Amityville fame) linking up with Geraldine Gates to make up that her 3rd daughter was DeFeo's and trying to use that to make a run at the estate. After that failed DeFeo admitte dit was a lie but Geraldine continued to use the made up claim to try to get deals from authors and the like and ultimately wound up being successful. Ric Osuna latched onto her lies and presented the in the book he Night the DeFeo's died. The publisher of the book turned it into a documentary called Shattered Hopes which she played a prominent role. So Geraldine essentially reverted to number 3.
If Jeremy and the alleged mother both told Mike about a daughter then it is obvious they were contemplating number 4 but ultimately Jeremy decided against it because it could be disproved with a paternity test so and as a fallback the woman resorted to number 3.
It is quite possible that number 4 or 3 is the case here. But since Mike made up the outlandish claim that he stole a photo of Sheila on the bed that was in the possession of Ewen Smith and then mailed it to Jeremy but police stole it one has to wonder whether Mike made up all of this as well.
