Unemployed man fathers 15th baby, expecting two more

Yahoo!7 November 28, 2011, 4:38 pm

An unemployed UK man famous for fathering 14 children has had another child and is expecting two more.

Thirty-four-year-old Jamie Cumming – labelled Britain’s most feckless father – lives off benefits and is unable to support the brood he fathered with 13 different women over 16 years or so.

He had his first child when he was just 17 and since then the girlfriends and the babies have kept coming.

The latest baby is from an ex-girlfriend who has given birth to a boy.

But that’s not all.

Cummings’ current girlfriend, 19, is pregnant with his 16th baby and another 17-year-old will give birth next year.

His mother Lorraine said she feels humiliated.

"He needs to take some responsibility. He's an embarrassment and I'm having nothing to do with him," she was quoted as saying.

Lorraine is in touch with her 14 grandchildren and their maternal grandparents but is ashamed her son cannot care for or support his own children.

Cumming fathered his first child in 1995 when he was 17 with then girlfriend Kelly Dulley.

But once the baby was born, Cumming started a relationship with Kelly's cousin. It lasted 10 years but the couple could not have a baby despite receiving IVF treatment through the NHS.

In the meanwhile, Cumming had managed to impregnate another woman who gave birth to his first son in 1997.

Another girl who was Kelly's cousin's friend got pregnant too, making Cumming a dad yet again. His fifth child was born in July 2001 and 14 months later another son arrived.

In 2002, Cumming became a father to two more boys before starting a relationship with a new woman in 2004.

The couple had three children together and Jamie also welcomed two babies in 2007 and 2008.



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