Moms shot over child support
October 30, 2005
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New York Daily News – Home – Moms shot over child support
By JOSE MARTINEZ, MAUREEN SEABERG and JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
A Staten Island ex-con enraged over paying child support hunted down and shot two of his ex-girlfriends in front of their kids before killing himself, authorities said yesterday.
Rashawn Mack, 25, fired a single bullet into the heads of both women Thursday – killing one and leaving the other clinging to life. Only a day earlier, he had threatened to kill one of the women over the court-ordered child support.
“If you expect me to pay that, get yourself measured for a body bag,” Mack warned Rachel Rivas, 24, on Wednesday after she was awarded custody of their 2-year-old son, a law enforcement source said.
Mack had been ordered to pay Rivas $25 a week on top of the $50 a month he already was paying Chantel Curtis, the 24-year-old mother of his other young child, sources said.
“He’s a nut. He attacked her once before a couple of months ago,” said Curtis’ friend Tealeda Lewis, 38, as she kept vigil at St. Vincent’s Hospital, where Curtis was on life support yesterday.
“But she couldn’t seem to stop herself – she was still in love with him,” Lewis said.
Mack began to stalk the two women Thursday afternoon, arriving first at Rivas’ empty apartment, police said. Frustrated, he repeatedly called the Pep Boys shop where Rivas worked, demanding to be told when she’d be home, authorities said.
He then drove to Curtis’ Lincoln Ave. home about 3 p.m. and shot her once in the forehead, leaving her body in a pool of blood in the kitchen while their 14-month-old daughter screamed in the next room, police said.
Next, Mack drove to the Pep Boys in Mariners Harbor, approaching Rivas at 6 p.m. and firing a bullet point-blank into her head as her two children – including his 2-year-old son – stood nearby, police said.
Cops contacted Mack’s family in Pennsylvania, who said after he shot Curtis Mack had said, “I messed up,” according to a source.
A massive police manhunt ended with the discovery of Mack’s body slumped over in the front seat of his black Honda Accord at 8 a.m. yesterday on Cowen Place in Mariners Harbor. A .25-caliber handgun was found on the floor next to him.
Mack, a mechanic, had served time for assault and drug possession. He also was slapped with a domestic incident report for assaulting Rivas when she caught him in bed with Curtis two years ago, sources said.
“She was a good mother – she was trying to turn her life around,” said Rivas’ friend Danielle Silano, 28. “And then this animal had to come and do this to her.”
The rampage stunned Mack’s brother yesterday. “Probably everything kept building up [inside him],” said Mark Davis, 33. “He kept it bottled up inside and didn’t talk to anyone.”
With Robert F. Moore
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There are 4 million children born annually in the U.S., of this number, 1.3 million (or roughly 1 in 3) are born to single females; the vast majority of whom seek child support from a prospective father. (Falsely accusing the victim in roughly 1/3 of cases where DNA tests are performed)
It is important to understand that these men have no choice in whether they become a father. The feminist mantra is that they should have “kept it zipped up†never acknowledging any responsibility on the part of the female. Many of these females will stop at nothing in order to get pregnant including lying about the use of birth control, poking holes in condoms, using the contents of discarded condoms to impregnate themselves, the level they will stoop to is limited only by the creativeness of the perpetrator involved. This is being perpetrated against these men with the full cooperation and assistance of every court and law enforcement agency in the country in order to extort countless billions of dollars from the disfranchised men involved and the duped taxpayers.
The states get matching federal dollars from the government to aggressively collect this blood money in the purported “best interests of the children†by outright lying to the public that they are saving the taxpayers huge sums of money; when in reality the taxpayers are paying many times more in subsidies to the corrupt child support industry then they are “saving†in collected child support payments; in short, this a corrupt criminal enterprise using the “best interests of children†and the lie about saving the taxpayers money to steal from every man, woman and child in this country.
Every criminal enterprise has its victims and its casualties. The men and the children involved are exclusively the victims, although there are some unintended casualties like the two female perpetrators in this story. I guess as long as we allow men to be victimized by these females and the corrupt child support industry in this manner, although tragic, this type of insane behavior should be expected.
No women can be forced into motherhood under any circumstances; until men are afforded equal protection of our laws as guaranteed by the constitution, get use to this type of story.
Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, writes:
“If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring a pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support … autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.”
It’s nice to see that even an occasional feminist can see the insanity of this criminal activity.
When you take everything a person has, they have nothing to lose. Desperate times with dictate desperate measures. What was this man’s options? Be a slave for the next 20 years? From what I have read he was a loving father. I don’t condone his actions but I know human behavior and the reasons behind it, The women and the family law industry have accountability in this tragedy. Many men are in this very situation, it is my prayer that something will be done before further suffering takes place.
“No justice, No peace.” I beg, BEG… for justice, my kids deserve peace.
The chances are good that the powers that be will brush this event off as an anomaly. If so it won’t be the first time and definitely not the last time that our rulers will have turned a blind eye to a fraud based system that is so massive.
The man in this article was paying $25 a week to one and $50 a month to another, which is $150. I pay almost ten times that and kept calm, cool and collected. This man must of had a screw loose mentally and I don’t think it had anything to do with support. Whomever wrote this article is just plain old journalism and they make up stories all the time. I am sorry but I don’t think this guy did it because of $40 a week in support. This article reminds me of Katie Kourick ( from NBC) live in New Orleans inside of a canoe talking to the camera and describing that the water is about 10 feet deep and the camera accidentally panned over a there was another man standing there 10 feet away and the water was up to his ankles.
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Violence doesn’t solve anything unless it is directed at those that created the problem. The problem wasn’t created by the mom’s, it was created by the government that won’t enforce a father’s rights (if he ever had any) but will persecute him to no end for moeny, property, and his life.
FYI: I am a mother who was victimized by the father of my youngest child and the court system as well. All I wanted was sole custody with visitation to the father with supervision and no child support. Father has done everything he can to prove I am the unfit parent when the truth is he is a violent wife/girlfriend beater, drug addict and a homeless and unemployed nobody. This man refuses to pay me child support however, willingly supported his two other children with his wife whom he never divorced with the promise of marrying me. His drug addiction and evil spiteful revenge have not only ruined my life but the lives of my kids, my family, his family, and reaches out to my landlord, my employer, and the list goes on.
SC Child Support is withholding my entire pay when my son current lives with me. My son has lived in NY since August 2003. The father lost his house due to his drug addiction in May 2004 and none of the parties even reside in SC any longer. Judges think they are God and they basically make the worst decisions ever. I think our entire judicial system sucks and is not fair. All I wanted was my child and I don’t want child support but I shouldn’t have to pay arrears to this homeless unemployed crack addict when my son’s present needs outweigh his father supporting his crack habit. I only make $800 per month. I went from making $40,000 in 1999 to making less than $10,000 in 2005. I want this man to stay out of our lives but the courts keep pushing him back in there. He made it clear he doesn’t want his son only the money but wants to keep custody and wants me to support him and our child. He is not entitled to all the money as he would owe me and my mother for the past 3 years plus the next 4 years and I know no one will enforce child support and make him pay me but yet because I was working they take from me causing me undue financial hardship and no means to support my son and I am not eligible for welfare in NY though the father was in SC. I have never had any rights and this man doesn’t deserve to be called a father. He has beaten and threatened our son as well.
Who is looking out for my son’s well being? So far no one is. I can’t get any help. What does someone who makes little to nothing and barely getting by but providing as best as I can for my son do when the courts rob you of everything including your job, your means of supporting your children, your dignity, etc., causing you to become homeless as well. I think judges ought to be shot actually. They think they are better than the rest of us when they are really not any different. Yet look at the numbers of lives they destroy but their outrageous and unjust decisions. Who says any of us have any rights?
I feel sorry for your plight and no one should have to go through that …. but if enough women did, you can bet your child support that things would change on a dime. All the women that think they’re getting away with something because the courts are supporting the extortion are only setting up their sons for the same thing they’re putting their exes through … think about it ladies … what would you do if that was your son?
Keep droppin ‘em folks. Just quit shooting yourself in the end. Then you can explain to others what they have done to you. 1500 per month? Chump change buddy.
Wish I had it that easy. Lost my wife becasue she cheated. Lost my kids, even though I was the primary caregiver becasue she lied in court. She made up stories of being abused – I even proved that she was lying in court by showing the judge a letter written to her attorney by her about how she should lie, and then her and her attorney filed motions based upon those lies.
Now, I ‘m losing my house. I’ve lost two months at work becasue of all the court appearances and ran out of money for attorney’s who got over $150,000 and did almost nothing.
She is now making $100,000 per year. But she testified that she could only make about 35K.
Yeah, this is justice.
I encourage everyone who is outraged to do something about it and thank those that can make headlilnes while doing so!!!!