I've always said that the "dirty south" could use some cleansing - not of the ethnic type so much, but of the racial type: the entire human race.
It should be well-known by now to News of the Weird readers that a DNA test disproving fatherhood will not necessarily relieve a man of child-support obligations. Frank Hatley's case is especially alarming. He was finally released in July in Cook County, Ga., but only after having spent 13 months in jail because he had missed a few payments for another man's child. Hatley had paid conscientiously, albeit incompletely, from 1987-2000, out of meager wages, and continued (even during periods of unemployment and homelessness) for several years after he learned he was not the father. In 2001, a court absolved him of the duty to make future payments, but the state interpreted that ruling as not affecting the overdue amounts from the past, and in 2008 jailed him. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 7-14-09][1]
So this guy, who wasn't even the father, was nice and payed child support even when he was homeless. It was later found out that he wasn't the father, and thus didn't have to pay anymore. And for some reason, Georgia state officials decided that he should go to jail for not paying for something he didn't even legally owe.
WHAT THE FUCK?
How can they even consider that to be a valid reason to jail someone? If anything, the state, or the woman, should be paying the guy back all of the money he didn't owe to begin with.
I can only hope this guy is smart and gets a good lawyer and sues the shit out of the state of Georgia, making them feel stupid and putting them in their place so something this mind-numbingly stupid doesn't happen to anybody else.
Georgia: Tough on deatbeat dads, even the ones who pay for somebody else's "little squirt".
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It should be well-known by now to News of the Weird readers that a DNA test disproving fatherhood will not necessarily relieve a man of child-support obligations. Frank Hatley's case is especially alarming. He was finally released in July in Cook County, Ga., but only after having spent 13 months in jail because he had missed a few payments for another man's child. Hatley had paid conscientiously, albeit incompletely, from 1987-2000, out of meager wages, and continued (even during periods of unemployment and homelessness) for several years after he learned he was not the father. In 2001, a court absolved him of the duty to make future payments, but the state interpreted that ruling as not affecting the overdue amounts from the past, and in 2008 jailed him. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 7-14-09][1]
So this guy, who wasn't even the father, was nice and payed child support even when he was homeless. It was later found out that he wasn't the father, and thus didn't have to pay anymore. And for some reason, Georgia state officials decided that he should go to jail for not paying for something he didn't even legally owe.
WHAT THE FUCK?
How can they even consider that to be a valid reason to jail someone? If anything, the state, or the woman, should be paying the guy back all of the money he didn't owe to begin with.
I can only hope this guy is smart and gets a good lawyer and sues the shit out of the state of Georgia, making them feel stupid and putting them in their place so something this mind-numbingly stupid doesn't happen to anybody else.
Georgia: Tough on deatbeat dads, even the ones who pay for somebody else's "little squirt".
1. Source (temporarily only)
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