Harvey V. State

After she turned eighteen years of age in 2001, Jennifer Simmons for the first time disclosed the paternity of her son, conceived in 1995 when Jennifer was only twelve. Her outcry, to her adult boyfriend, Vonnie Kelly, was that her stepfather, Vaughn Earle Harvey, had sexually assaulted her then and was the father of her son. When Jennifer told Kelly the details of her ordeal, he advised her to contact the authorities. At the direction of Child Protective Services and the police, blood samples were taken from Harvey, Simmons, and her son for paternity testing. The conclusion of these tests indicated there was a 99.99999% probability of Harvey's paternity.