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Man Jailed for Child Support Even Though He Doesn’t Have Any Kids?
In this video from the Southern Center for Human Rights, they speak of gross human rights violations in the child support system. Thousands of people, most of them African American, are being jailed for the inability to pay child support or not having a job. The video is below:
BETTYEJ
April 24, 2012 at 1:11 am
This is how our white Justice System works!
Michael Williams
April 24, 2012 at 1:00 pm
This is a damn shame. I didn’t see one white face in that report.
eunice bowen
April 24, 2012 at 1:36 pm
u got to be kidding there has to be a way that is saying this is not LEGAL AT ALL
BBRxPress
April 24, 2012 at 1:47 pm
The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s not even about child support. You can’t imagine that when they cut out so many social services in our neighborhoods. So the system is not remotely interested in housing, securing jobs, or supportting low income communities when they’re deprived of such! It’s business! The prison system provides jobs for corrections officers who manage the care and custody of those who are incarcerated. It enables vendors who sell products and/or services to inmates to charge the inmates huge sums of money. The burden of which is carried by the family members, who receive phone calls and purchase food items from vending machines during visits. The longer the inmate remains incarcerated, the more vendors are profitting! And they ain’t Black!
me112233
April 24, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Having seen first hand cases of flagrant non-support, I looked at this video with mixed feelings. As for the poor guy that wasn’t the father of any child, he is obviously being abused by the system. What most poeple don’t know is, that under the law, if you start making child support for a kid that actually isn’t yours, the law may “assign” that kid to be yours and from then on you are legally responsible for that kid even though everyone knows it isn’t yours. The courts will say that you “acknowledged paternity” if you provided some support in the beginning. The moral to the story is to not try to help out a woman with a newborn kid unless that kid actually is yours, because the courts might later assign that kid to you and you are on the hook for 18 years. I think the legal system is wrong the way they do that, but it is how the system works. Locking up a man in that type of situation is truly wrong.
As for most of these cases where the man actually is the father of the kid, I don’t feel sorry for them in the least bit. Shame on them for saddling the taxpayers of America with the financial burden of raising their children. Stop smoking, drinking, and drugging, and get a job (and you can get a job if you get off the liquor). Same goes for the deadbeat moms out there. I don’t feel the least bit sorry for the gal who was upset that her $500 paycheck only left her with $100 after the child support was extracted. Is it my fault that she decided to do drugs and hang with abusive men instead of being a responsible parent? Since f*@k!@3g an abusive man and shooting veins with drugs are RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES that a woman might CHOOSE to engage in, it is her fault and nobody else’s. She did the crime, now she has to do the time; don’t come crying on my shoulder looking for sympathy; she is a disgrace to motherhood and a disgrace to society in general.
tony D, Bridgewater
April 24, 2012 at 2:02 pm
This is insane and just another action showing that justice is just that “Just Us”. The child support system is jacked up and need to be fixed ASAP. However, the only thing quick about the criminal system is preying on the indigent. No voice no power.Once gain “absolutepower corrupts absolutely.
Robin
April 24, 2012 at 2:03 pm
That was very sad and very depressing! How can these back wood county’s still get away with these types of injustice in this day and age?
Renee Taylor
April 24, 2012 at 2:20 pm
No words but criminal comes to mind
jinior
April 24, 2012 at 3:05 pm
That is straight up crazy as hell that the State is incacerating a person for unpaid Chils Support after DNA testing has PROVED he is not the Biological Father. If I were an Attorney I would represent him for free and sue the State on his behalf for false imprisonment.
Scarlet Morgan
April 24, 2012 at 3:54 pm
No doubt the child support system may need to be improved so it reflects just treatment, but I have no pity on parents who don’t or can’t financially support their kids adequately. I also don’t have respect for those who take unjust isolated incidents where injustices occur in the child support system and use those isolated incidents as proof that the whole system is broken. I’m a grandmother and too often I see men who the courts let get away with paying hardly anything at all for the support of their kids. Some only have to pay $50/mo to support a child. What child can live on $50/mo in support. I also see men making baby after baby as they make claims they can’t afford to support the kids they already have. Should I feel sorry for these people?….Heck No! They should be jailed if they don’t or can’t pay enough to support their kids adequately. They knew when they had unprotected sex that children could be born as a result of their irresponsible actions so why cry poverty now?….Kids can’t take care of themselves. They need to have food, adequate clothing and decent shelter to live. I don’t give a hoot how grown folks get the money to pay for the support of their kids. What I care about is that these babies get what they need to sustain their lives by any means necessary. Too many adults irresponsibly play house and then want the justice system to take it easy on them when they fail to meet their financial responsibilities to their children. To heck with that! I’d rather see these dead beats in jail than walking the streets and not paying for their kids.
charltondaily
April 24, 2012 at 4:51 pm
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John Tac
April 24, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Keep me in form …. That was the new from of slavery……. They just use Child -Support as a cover…….. peace – out
Hattie
April 24, 2012 at 9:31 pm
And They Say, ” Slavery has Ended!!”
this is horrible.
Willa
April 25, 2012 at 10:07 pm
I talk, blog and preach all the time to young people. Stay in school, get an education, stay close to God.
I feel sorry for all involved. But, life is tough and you have to be prepared. This is why as black people we need to stop having illegitimate babies if you cannot afford them. You are dooming you and the next generation to poverty. This is a prime example of how the law is used against black folk and it saddens me to see people in this situation.
Again, stay in school and get an education. Stay close to God and family and prepare yourself financilly for a lean day.
I am glad someone stepped up to help these people. The next generation may not be so lucky!