ATLANTA -- An East Point man says he was mistakenly arrested and tossed in jail for failure to pay child support for a child he says isn’t his. Emmanuel Coleman-Ruff says officers should have known he wasn’t the person they were looking for because he’s shorter, doesn’t have the same birthdate and he lives at a different address.

Emmanuel Coleman-Ruff says it was mental torture as he was locked up at the Fulton County Jail for not taking care of a child he says he didn’t know and more importantly – didn’t father. Authorities are still trying to figure out if that’s true. While they do that – Coleman-Ruff wants an apology.

“I want the Sheriff of the jail to send me a letter of apology,” says Coleman-Ruff.

Twenty-year-old Emmanuel Coleman-Ruff is still angry after spending 3 days behind bars at the Fulton County Jail.

He says while he was locked up, “I was still trying to beg them, ‘Please check it, this is wrong. I can’t be here. I’m not supposed to be here.”

This all began when College Park Police stopped Coleman-Ruff for making an illegal turn. The officer arrested him after noticing a warrant for Emmanuel Ruff on abandonment of a minor child or failing to pay child support charges.

“I was like, ‘I don’t have a kid so that’s like way, way, way wrong,” he says.

Coleman-Ruff says he doesn’t know the woman who is looking for the father of her child. He noticed on the warrant the child’s father has a different name, a different birthdate, a different address and is taller than he is. And the warrant lists the baby as 7.

“Seven-years-old. Meaning that child is 7 years old now I would have been 13 when I had sex with the girl,” Coleman-Ruff says.

A Fulton County Jail spokesperson told Channel 2 without a picture of the real culprit or fingerprints, Coleman-Ruff will have to go before a judge to prove his innocence.

Coleman-Ruff says proving his innocence shouldn’t have left him sitting in jail for days.

“I would love for her to find the guy and whatever else and get he child support – that’s fine and dandy. But it ain’t me,” says Coleman-Ruff.

The College Park Police chief is looking into the arrest and is trying to figure out why his officers arrested Coleman-Ruff. A spokesperson at the Fulton County Jail says so many people come in with different names and birthdates, they often let the courts sort it all out.