That's not true, Gaston does repeatedly state that he is Melissa's biological father. Where do you see anything regarding DNA?
You claim Gaston "was missing" the first 4-5 years of her life, yet you don't know this to be true. Yes, she WAS taken from her biological mother when she was around 2, lived in a foster home for a year, then went to live with her father for about a year before they took her.
You don't know if he visited Melissa when she lived with her mother. Although there are some things we don't know concerning the time prior to Melissa living with her father, there's NOTHING that shows that he was unfit, abusive, or neglectful.
Sealed juvenile records are protecting Will Gaston from his actions being made public. He may not have been criminal but his fitness was certainly in question. Since he had no legal custody since birth, he had no right to keep her if he was deemed unfit. The state had assumed responsibility for Melissa in Gastons absence. Melissa was just one year old when her mother's rights were terminated, she was removed from the home prior to that.
We did all of this 2 weeks ago. Here are the final eighty posts of that conversation.
That's not true, Gaston does repeatedly state that he is Melissa's biological father.
Others who assume that he is the biological father may make statements to that effect. Gastons do not. They hinge their statements on "Legal guardian" and other such generic terms. Will's legal claim results from the service agreement that he had with the state to "maintain" Melissa for a year.
Gastons are not shy about exploiting anything that may benefit them. If he was the biological father it would be front and center and mentioned at every turn. That would be far more effective than claiming that social services was selling babies on the "black market". Gaston knows that if he attempts to claim that he is Melissa's biological father the state may have a great big child support bill waiting for him. May 20, 1990 - September 30, 1999. That may be what's keeping him honest (sort of) on this front.
Where do you see anything regarding DNA?
When Wilbur Gaston first obtained custody of his daughter from the STATE in l994, the STATE lied and forced DNA tests to be obtained, all the while, Wilbut Gastons name was on the original birth certificate from the beginning.
8. On September 30, l999, more than two years later, Melissa was still not released and parental rights remained intact, judge Fred Avera conducted a sham hearing for termination of parental rights. The morning of the hearing, some discovery was produced, with no time for Wilbur Gaston to study or prepare a defense, as usual for juvenile courts of no due process.
The judge did not care that Wilbur Gaston could not have possibly been prepared, and continued with the sham trial without a jury.
Gastons never give the results of the DNA tests, leaving one to believe that Gaston may have been excluded. The termination of his parental rights and the removal of his name from the birth certificate help to support this conclusion.
In 1998 Hazel Spees, correcting earlier testimony, testified that Gaston was not the biological father. She probably became aware of this fact as a result of her contacts with social services. To combat this testimony Gaston did not produce DNA evidence to support his fatherhood but rather chose to rely on Spees earlier testimony. In earlier testimony, Spees had incorrectly assumed that Gaston was the bilogical father because his name was on the birth certificate.
Spees denied on the stand that Gaston was the biological father of Melissa.
Bottom line is that DNA tests were done and Gastons aren't touching the results with a ten foot pole. The results are sealed to the general public so one must evaluate the resulting actions that were taken. Parental rights were terminated and Gaston’s name was removed from the birth certificate.