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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PL
May 21st, 2012
1:53 pm
This guy is not a father, he is a baby maker. There is a difference. The video shows him with a cell phone, dressed in the latest fashionable clothing and well groomed. It illustrates that he has the capability of providing more than just $1.49. The state should request even more of his supposed minimum wages.
Baddabing
May 21st, 2012
1:57 pm
Unfortunately this probably happens a lot more often than most of us think. Besides the irresponsible behavior of the father and mothers, the government will reward them for their irresponsibility. There’s no accountability. Fast forward 20yrs and see what kind of productive adults these kids become. Sad, very sad. The decline of morals in this country is going to be it’s undoing. Immorality does not discriminate by race, creed, or social standing.
GOD OF WAR
May 21st, 2012
2:02 pm
Sap Sucka..
GOD OF WAR
May 21st, 2012
2:04 pm
But now the women wanna cry foul.. As Fred G Sandford says. “You big dummy” I bet all those dummies knew about each other and wanted to see who could get pregnant to keep the bigger dummy..
Tee off
May 21st, 2012
2:06 pm
He said he was going to stop at 21. Now he’s at 30 and I bet he gets to 40 by the time he’s 40. Just when you think you’ve seen dumb…………This selfish loser has potentially ruined 30 lives and what makes you think he’s going to stop. This is a very sad story!
Smokey
May 21st, 2012
2:07 pm
Some can’t keep their pants zipped up.
Jason
May 21st, 2012
2:10 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!
I think everyone who followed Rush Limbaugh with his “Don’t pay for birth control” rant should be forced to chip in. I would have gladly paid for birth control pills for those 11 women AND a vasectomy for this idiot. Why do pro-lifers stop caring as soon as the baby pops out?
goodmom
May 21st, 2012
2:10 pm
I am white and on public assistance. My white baby daddy has 8 kids by four diffenct women. So tell me what does race have to do with anything??? My ex is garbage and has only seen my 5 year old twice in his life. Deadbeat dads have no race!!!!
bookman parrot
May 21st, 2012
2:12 pm
you wouldn’t like what i have to say about what should occur with this idiot.
missnadine
May 21st, 2012
2:14 pm
Mike – you are an idiot. How does Obamacare get into this discussion? with 30 kids between a few months and 14 years old, it is obvious that the Bush administration was in place for a ton of these births. Problem is -no government will tackle this type of issue. He’ll continue making babies, and his kids will do the same. Not a black issue. Imagine what Octomom’s kids will be when they grow up.