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
2:19 pm
Oh and Mike, I didn’t realize that Obama’s healthcare reform law retroactively knocked up women for the last 14 years. Who knew?
see no evil
May 21st, 2012
2:28 pm
More proof that heterosexuals make better parents?
Rawdog
May 21st, 2012
2:40 pm
Maybe the magic negro (Obama) can bail him out. Big, black, and stupid is no way to go thru life. Or as they say on the mean streets of Atlanta, “Make a life, take a life”. Losing.
Malika
May 21st, 2012
2:42 pm
After having to sort through so many racist comments that often occur on ajc articles of this nature, I have to say that I’m proud of many of white readers comment about how this problem is not an issue of race. You have all restored my faith in how awesome, diverse, loving, and intelligent this city really is.
Lee
May 21st, 2012
2:43 pm
Let’s not refer to race, creed or color, less we forget Octomon. I to think he and the women he slept with are disguisting and the government shouldn’t be made to pay for his children. He should be made to get a 2nd, or 3rd job and so should the mothers. And they should be court ordered to set up a day care system amoung them to look after the children. Nor should he be allowed to have anymore. This is disguisting and sick for them all and yes, the children will suffer for their ignut a– parents stupidity.
missnadine
May 21st, 2012
2:45 pm
Malika – fortunately, most white people are the opposite of Rawdog, veedub (name says it all) and Mike. You can bet that any of these cowards only speak their mind on the internet, where their sorry asses can remain anonymous.
LawDawg
May 21st, 2012
2:45 pm
And….here is what is wrong with America. Clearly the key is to fight against birth control on religious grounds, because this is definitely what we want in this society.
Santorum 2016!!!
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urban redneck
May 21st, 2012
2:46 pm
i had to read this to make sure it wasn’t about me………
Tisha
May 21st, 2012
2:48 pm
one word and four syllables! “Vasectomy”….. there should have been a court ordered issued for him 10 kids ago!