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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missnadine
May 21st, 2012
1:15 pm
This stuff gets me so mad! Some people should be forcibly sterilized, and that goes for the women in this story too. Where are the pro lifers when this type of story comes out? What about when Octomom went on welfare? Some people are just too stupid to breed, and should not be allowed to. Is the world a better place with octomom’s 8 and this moron’s 30 kids?
Mike
May 21st, 2012
1:15 pm
To The Factor: watch the movie Idiocracy…nuf said.
JT
May 21st, 2012
1:20 pm
Mike
May 21st, 2012
12:42 pm
Can hardly wait for all of these kids to be on obamacare and then I can help pay!
Leave it to the conservatives to make it political
just mike
May 21st, 2012
1:26 pm
If he’s not able to support all the children, and the mothers aren’t either, we’re already paying for them, Obamacare or no.
Jerry
May 21st, 2012
1:28 pm
Why is this a color issue? What about the white congressman who is in arrears to the tune of $110,000.00. There is no reason to put a color to this. This is an American issue. We celebrate idiots of all colors all day long on our televisions and then we get upset when they live up to their “characters”? Really? The guy does needs to be locked away and the mothers too.
veedub
May 21st, 2012
1:29 pm
I knew what ethnic group the ‘father’ was before I clicked on the story. Shameful.
Tag
May 21st, 2012
1:32 pm
Probably has the brains of a rabbit too.
Danny
May 21st, 2012
1:34 pm
@Jerry, well put. No matter the color, its an American issue.
Reality
May 21st, 2012
1:46 pm
No doubt he and “hissuns” are Obama voters
big g dawg
May 21st, 2012
1:50 pm
12 idiots involved here and the sad part is 30 kids that will more than likely continue the cycle. If the government would pass a law that required individuals to meet a certain level on an IQ test or be medically sterilized the cycle of stupidity would possibly end.