Child support query leads to rape arrest for mother – father only 13
October 6, 2006
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The Post Star
Child support query leads to rape arrest
Mother charged with statutory rape after father’s age revealed
Published on 10/6/2006
WARRENSBURG * A woman’s desire to get child support payments from the father of her young child landed her in jail Thursday, police said.
The Warrensburg mother’s trips to Warren County Family Court in recent weeks prompted court officials to investigate her claim further, allowing them to determine the person who fathered her child was 13 years old when he had sex with her, officials said.
That’s statutory rape under state law, accusations that led to the arrest Thursday of Kimberly A. Baker, 22, of 22 Evergreen Lane, on a second-degree
rape charge, according to the Warren County Sheriff’s Department.
Baker’s arrest came about five weeks after she filed petitions in Warren County Family Court seeking child support for her 2-year-old daughter, Julianna.
She identified the father as a 16-year-old boy whom she told the court she had sex with on two occasions in September 2003, when she was 19-1/2, authorities said.
The problem is the boy would have been 13-1/2 at that point, well younger than the state’s age of legal consent of 17 for sexual relations.
As part of the court proceedings, she gave a sworn affidavit admitting to having sex with the teen, officials said.
“But for her having made the application in Family Court, we never would have known about this,” Warren County District Attorney Kate Hogan said. “It was such an unusual way to have a case come forward.”
Baker’s child was born June 14, 2004. A birth announcement that ran in The Post-Star the next day did not list a father.
The teen’s name was not released, and he is being considered a victim in the case.
Hogan said the investigation began after Family Court Judge J. Timothy Breen referred the matter to her office and the Sheriff’s Department.
Paulette Kershko, the court attorney for Warren County Family Court, said Breen had no comment on the case. She would not say whether either party in the Family Court case had a lawyer.
Baker was arraigned in Warrensburg Town Court and was sent to Warren County Jail for lack of $10,000 cash bail or $20,000 bail bond.
The arrest was made by sheriff’s Investigator Edward Affinito.
Second-degree rape is punishable by up to 7 years in state prison.
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Good Reading “A Tear in Our Fabric,” by David Brook, NYTimes, Oct. 5, 2006.
at http://select.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/opinion/05brooks.html
Wow, what a self indulgent greedy excuse for a mother. I wonder if our relentless child support enforcement laws lead this obviously less than average intelligence woman to think she could extract money from a minor. Do we now as a society believe that women are not responsible for anything. And I thought I was “Shock Proof”. I do not know if I should laugh or be angry.
Merely victims of LOV – Liberty Orchestrated Violations.
Judicial activism at its best . . . or was that worst.
I agree. Responsibilities owing to a guardianship of this great country rest with all of us collectively.
Further, if courts and/or their agency-extensions (perhaps even friends of the court) avail certain machineries of their craft for tempting insatiable appetites to “MORE,” we may be sensing but merely the tip of an emerging white elephant.
None the less, if one may perceive but only a hint of potential kidnapping of Ms. Liberty, we most certainly have reason for concern.
— just adad