Posted on 12/06/2008 1:42:49 PM PST by decimon
HARRISBURG, Pa. – A Philadelphia man was forced to pay more than $12,000 in child support for another man's daughter and spent two years in jail for falling behind on payments.
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Where I used to work there was an illegal alien who used someone else’s SS# and had to pay his child support or be fired.
How can this be? Did he have an attorney? Did they do DNA testing which would have showed who the biological father is? This seems to bizarre that somebody would go to jail over this.
The luck of the draw.
Maybe I can find some illegal to pay my mortgage.
It's not bizarre, it's the law. If you are looking for justice, you have to pay for any and all that you get.
I didn’t read it. But I know that if a guy lives with a chick long enough to get commonlaw marriage, and during that time, the chick gets pregnant and has a kid and she has no idea WHO the father is(ie she’s a slutty whore), the guy she lives with will be stuck with the child support.
It has happened before.
The government will use whatever means possible to make someone responsible for supporting the kid. THey don’t care who, as long as it isn’t the government.
Dunno. I would have had a lawyer.
Did they do DNA testing...
The article says he was disallowed that by duh judge.
So the guy is a dirty dog. Doesn't mean he should be forced to support another man's bastard.
Petitions he filed for DNA testing were opposed by the court's domestic relations officials and denied by the judge.
Make DNA testing mandatory.
In May 2007, the paternity order against Walter Sharpe was overturned after the girl's mother and grandmother failed to show up to a court hearing. But the judge ruled in October that Walter Sharpe was not entitled to compensation.
Make compensation mandatory.
Family courts and juvenile courts can be hell. Filled with bias and Catch-22's.
According to the article he had nothing to do with the mother. The actual father said he always supported the child and that she, the child, is living with him and about to graduate high school.
Now that was poetic justice ....
It’s so hard to believe that this can happen. I mean, with DNA testing available, it’s hard to believe that judges would disallow the possibility of testing and just take a woman’s word as to who the father is.
Maybe a lesson for everyone is be careful who you get involved with, be careful who you live with, be careful who you sleep with.
When Walter Sharpe received the certified letter on Feb. 6, 2001, he knew the complaint for child support was a mistake.
Andre Sharpe had a different date of birth, a different Social Security number and different previous addresses.
Andre Sharpe also had an 11-year-old daughter with a woman in Harrisburg, and Walter Sharpe knew he had been to Harrisburg only once, to register a car. He also knew he hadn't fathered a child to a woman named Terri Jones on that trip.
So he ignored it.
Big mistake.
The letter required Andre Sharpe to attend a Domestic Relations conference on March 6, 2001.
On May 29, 2001, since neither man attended the conference, Dauphin County Judge Scott A. Evans, as required by law, issued a ruling finding that Walter Andre Sharpe was the father.
A month later, Domestic Relations entered an order requiring him to pay $447 a month support along with $5,730 in arrears.
When the agency attached his wages at the trash company J.P. Mascaro & Sons, Walter Sharpe told his boss there was a mistake. He then received a notice from Domestic Relations telling him to come in to verify his claim of mistaken identity.
Instead of fixing the error, the office changed the personal information on the case to match his, Tanner, his attorney, said in court documents.
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So the guy is a dirty dog. Doesn't mean he should be forced to support another man's bastard.
Why is he a dirty dog and where did you get that the other kid is a bastard? I didn't see anything in the article to indicate either.
Delicious!
The girl’s father was Andre Sharpe. They jailed Edward Sharpe. Bizarre.
“...or be fired”
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I think I would’ve chosen “fired”.
Sorry. Edward Sharpe signed for the letter and they jailed Walter Sharpe. Confused yet?
As for the bastard status of the other kid, that's an assumption.
Don’t we all? Around here it’s called welfare. And you go to jail if you don’t pay it [taxes] too.
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