Fieldgrove said he does not believe he is Kershner’s father because Kershner’s mother “allegedly ‘rode him’ while he claimed to be passed out drunk.” Additionally, he said the woman had multiple sex partners that night, and that his name isn’t on Kershner’s birth certificate.

Kershner spent her entire youth living with her mother, the affidavit says. Kershner says her mother identified Fieldgrove as Kershner’s father.

After they met, the two defendants said that for the next three years their dealings amounted to a father-daughter type relationship. “Neither could tell me exactly how their relationship shifted to become intimate,” Nelson wrote in the affidavit.

Later, on Sept. 25, Kershner came to the Law Enforcement Center to deny that she had ever had sex with Fieldgrove. She then recanted that denial, Nelson wrote in the affidavit. “During this follow-up conversation with Samantha she alleged her motivation to have sex with her father stemmed from a jealous competition with her half-sister regarding who could have sex with their father, Travis Fieldgrove, first.”

According to the affidavit, Fieldgrove, Kershner and Kershner’s mother all agreed to provide buccal swabs for DNA analysis.