From FoxSports.com, originally from Associated Press. Headline is linked.
Caddie: LPGA player seduced and used me
JEFF PRICE / Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) - A former caddie for golfer Jackie Gallagher-Smith is suing the U.S. LPGA Tour regular, saying she seduced him in order to get pregnant.
Gary Robinson says Gallagher-Smith, who has been married since 1992, used him as "an unwitting sperm donor." He is suing for an unspecified sum, claiming fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress. No hearing date has been set for the suit, filed in circuit court this week in West Palm Beach.
A message for Gallagher-Smith's attorney, Edwin Belz, was not immediately returned.
Earlier, Belz told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that the suit was "an attempt at extortion."
The suit says Gallagher-Smith, 37, gave birth last month, but Florida law says a child born into a marriage is deemed to be a result of the marriage. A DNA test can't be forced and Robinson has no legal claim to the child, said Cathy Lively, Robinson's attorney.
Jackie Gallagher-Smith is being sued by a former caddie who is saying the LPGA golfer seduced him in order to get pregnant. (Doug Benc / Getty Images)
"That is why we are seeking damages; he's not going to be able to ask for a DNA test," Lively said. "It is our claim that he was put into a position, and this was an intentional act to father a child. He was led to believe at that point that the child was his.
"He was put into the position of being an unwitting sperm donor."
Robinson said he has been affected professionally. He is currently out of work as a caddie and is pursuing a career as a professional golfer.
"The likelihood that I will ever get another caddying job, especially in the LPGA, is very, very unlikely," he said.
Robinson, 26, began caddying for Gallagher-Smith in February 2004, and soon thereafter began receiving advances from her, he said. Robinson said he was in an emotional state after recently ending a long-term relationship with a girlfriend, and he passed off some early advances as "innocent playful activity."
The relationship became sexual about two months later and the two would sometimes engage in unprotected sex, he said. When rumors of the relationship began spreading around the tour, Gallagher-Smith told Robinson that he must deny they had anything but a work relationship, the suit states.
Robinson goes on to say that Gallagher-Smith told him she and her husband had been unsuccessful in conceiving a child. In July, she told Robinson she was pregnant and led him to believe he might be the father, the suit says.
Under pressure from Robinson, Gallagher-Smith eventually told her husband and said he forgave them, and Robinson continued to caddie for Gallagher-Smith through the end of the tour season in October, Robinson said.
... more at linked article
emphasis added
This story shows just how far things seem to have come toward "equal rights" in this country. As this article, and many others along the way (check out the predatory female teachers in Virginia and other locales) demonstrate, women are now equal opportunity sexual predators.
In this case though, there's other interesting things to consider. See the emphasis added section. Apparently Florida has some very quirky laws in the areas of potential parental responsibility. In this particular case, the father may not be the father in the eyes of the law, and he may never know it because of Florida law?!? What if the mother opts to go after child support money from the prospective father, what happens then? Is the husband always responsible?
I swear that the law gets more and more confusing every day. As Gideon and a few others would quickly point out, we've all asked for our law-makers to create laws ("there oughta be a law!!!") a few too many times, and they've done just that. Not necessarily in ways that result in the most common sense outcomes.
In any case, feel free to tell me that I'm wrong if I push for the idea that the father in this case should be determined, and should have his rights protected in the eyes of the law."
