Childless man freed after serving time for child support violations – CNN.com
July 18, 2009
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Posted by ANCPR
(CNN) — Frank Hatley spent the past year in jail for being a deadbeat dad. But there’s one problem — Hatley doesn’t have any children. And the “deadbeat” label doesn’t fit the 50-year-old either, his supporters say.
Frank Hatley had been ordered to make back payments even after he learned a teenager wasn’t his son.
After a hearing, Hatley was released from the Cook County Jail in south Georgia Wednesday afternoon, with the help of the Southern Center for Human Rights.
Superior Court Judge Dane Perkins ruled that Hatley was indigent and should not be jailed for not being able to make child support payments. Perkins postponed a decision on whether Hatley should have to make any more back payments on child-support for a child who is not his.
In June of last year, a judge ordered Hatley to jail for failing to reimburse the state for public assistance that was paid to support his “son,” who, as the court was aware, is not actually his son.
Hatley’s attorney Sarah Geraghty, who filed a motion for his release, called it a case of “blatant unfairness.”
ANCPR Says:
Isn’t it amazing how we consider ourselves a civilized society, and yet this kind of thing can happen? How is it possible for an unemployed man, who is still actually paying something, to go to jail for falling behind. The judge that found this man in contempt and who sentenced him should be dealt with in a way that sends a message.
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After reading this story it makes me wonder…As long as the state recoups it’s money do they even care who is hurt in the process..This man became HOMELESS!! and was still making payments…After such an ordeal some people would just simply give up.
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