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An Australian man has been ordered to continue paying child support to a prostitute that had his baby.   The man told a federal magistrate he shouldn't have to pay for the inadvertent offspring given the circumstances of the conception.

The accidental dad told magistrate Grant Riethmuller he'd had "a consumer transaction" with the child's mother.

The man argued in court that an implied term of the "contract" between clients and sex workers was that women would take measures to avoid pregnancy.

The father used the legal action to question whether the sex worker and the Federal Government's Child Support Agency had any right to chase him for money.

In an affidavit, he argued the woman's basis for seeking support was "fundamentally flawed" given her job.

However the court ruled against him saying the circumstances of the conception made no difference to the child's entitlements under the Child Support Scheme.

The man was ordered to keep paying $100 a week until a likely appeal to the Social Securities Appeal Tribunal.

The magistrate noted the door might be open for the dad to launch legal action against the owners of the brothel or escort service - or the mother individually - for damages.

Sex without a condom is illegal in licensed brothels  in the state of Victoria.

[via NineMSN]