Father of 30 struggles to pay child support
“Be fruitful and multiply” sounds like quite the party until the child support bill arrives.
Just ask poor Desmond Hatchett, a Tennessee volunteer if there ever was one.
WREG-TV in Memphis reports Hatchett, a minimum wage worker from Knoxville, recently asked the court for help in making his child support payments. The 33-year-old man has fathered 30 children by 11 women and is having trouble keeping up with the bills.
Half of his paycheck, the maximum allowed by Tennessee law, is garnished. Some mothers receive $1.49 a month.
How did this happen?
“I had four kids in the same year. Twice,” says Hatchett, who is better with the ladies than the ladies are at picking men.
Hatchett was last in court in 2009 when he had only 21 children and he said he was “done” with making babies.
If he gets relief from making child support payments, perhaps he can use the extra cash for condoms or a vasectomy.
Or for hiring a film crew to make him a reality TV star.
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arguablybetter
May 21st, 2012
12:54 pm
haha, yeah prolifeordie, death of children is the best case scenario.
Les
May 21st, 2012
12:54 pm
The women are more to blame than he is. He is the father of 30 children from 11 women. That means some of the women mothered his children multiple times. As a women who is the mother of his child (for which he is not paying child support), why would you birth another kid for him. Some of these women laid-up with him over and over again, even though he was not paying child support, and had fathered countless other kids.
Animal Control
May 21st, 2012
12:56 pm
Sounds like someone needs to be fixed or imprisoned…either way, it will prevent any more idiocity from taking place.
gsmith
May 21st, 2012
12:58 pm
No need to worry about these kids, they will all get passed along in public schools then the tax payers can pay for them to go to college because colleges must accept unqualified minority students then the state and federal government can give them jobs becasue they are black. so basically we pay for them from birth thtough middle age and into retirement from their pensions!! its a bootiful thing isnt it
Kyle
May 21st, 2012
12:59 pm
Looking forward to the Lifetime Channel movie that makes these women out to be victims.
BigBoom NY
May 21st, 2012
1:03 pm
gsmith- so white of you to come that conclusion, but if you were to do your research. There are just as many whites collecting Assistance than Minorities . So before you try t swallow all blacks up n your racist comments. do your homework!!!!!!!
The Factor
May 21st, 2012
1:03 pm
You can see why the bell curve for US society intelligence continues to drop with all these babies being born to low IQ mothers. These kids will have little chance and will likely turn out like their mom”s only to do the same. What about all the punks who have 8 -10 kids to different low IQ mom’s? You can only wonder what America will look like in 50 years.
Natalia
May 21st, 2012
1:07 pm
How the hell does people like this get away with it, my husband has 1 child from a past marriage, he pays $650.00 on below average income. If he is one day late, that lady is beating down the court house doors to have him arrested. I often end up paying for it out of my income! He’s not a deadbeat, the state screwed him on the % of income he pays.
I really don’t get this, how do these people get away with it and YES my husband is white.
Mike
May 21st, 2012
1:09 pm
Sounds like both the women and the deadbeat sperm donor should be sterilized. Stop popping out babies you can’t take care of…end of story.
JMM
May 21st, 2012
1:13 pm
These kids would be better off being raised by wolves.