Posted on 09/02/2014 11:36:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A rape victim in Arizona is now being forced to pay child support. What makes this so wrong is that the one raped had been a 14 year old boy at the time.
Nick Olivas had been below the age of consent, which is 15, when a 20-year-old woman took advantage of his rough home life and emotional state. He was young and lonely, but being willing is irrelevant when you’re that young.
Olivas was never told that he had gotten the woman pregnant before they went their separate ways. He discovered the hard way that he had a six-year-old daughter after graduating high school and getting a job as a medical assistant. He never pressed charges because he didn’t know he was supposed to, and now, he’s literally paying for ignoring the forms he didn’t know were important.
Rape victim Nick Olivas has stated that he wants to be a part of his daughter’s life, but it wasn’t fair to him that he hadn’t known about her for all of those years. Now he owes over $15,000 for medical and other expenses incurred over the child, plus ten percent interest.
Olivas stated about his discovery:
“It was a shock. I was living my life and enjoying being young. To find out you have a 6-year-old? It’s unexplainable. It freaked me out.”
When Olivas discovered his debt and his daughter’s existence, he was served the papers as the bank seized his account. He now has nearly $400 taken out of his wages every month.
Usually when you hear about rape, it’s usually a man taking advantage of a woman, and justice is often lacking. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, a former judge determined that justice would be better served if women didn’t drink so much.
Nick Olivas has apparently been a victim since he was 14 years old, and it never dawned on him how much until now. It isn’t very often that the rape victim ends up paying for the crime. Thankfully, the money owed was determined to be due to the child, not the rapist.
Olivas wants to fight due to the circumstances of his ignorance of the situation, but with his employer following DES child support regulations, he can’t afford a lawyer. He is willing to support his daughter, but the way the process was handled irks the Arizona rape victim:
“I lost my mom at a young age. I know what it’s like to only have one parent. I can’t leave her out there. She deserves a dad.”
Nick Olivas is just a horrible example of how the law can work against the victim.
Sounds good to me, but the “get the mom convicted” part might not be possible if the statute of limitations has expired. I don’t know AZ law.
He’s a man.
This makes no sense. There has got to be something missing here.
Yep I know one in minnesota...he was 15 she was 21....he payed for 18 yrs.
And then HE gets to file for child support.
No wonder men are so reluctant to get married, no wonder suicide rates are so high in male teens, and no wonder popular music is so filled with profanities toward women. I'm a woman who has seen many, many more families and marriages mortally wounded by selfish indulged "I'm just not fulfilled!" silly females supported by the courts, than by tomcatting men abandoning their families.
The latter does happen sometimes, but most of the time, it's the woman who decides she's just tired of her perfectly good and faithful hubby, dumps him, gets the kids, the house, and tax-free child support to boot. She's got nothing to lose. The guy, on the other hand, loses everything including his rights to be a father with authority to give needed discipline. The fruits of such evil "family law" priorities are bearing bitter fruit.
I don't blame men one damned bit for wanting to stay as far away from "family responsibility" in America as possible because men are playing against a stacked deck morally and financially.
She admitted to a crime when she sued for support. Book her.
Leverage against the mother and the law system. They both knew he was under age!
“She admitted to a crime when she sued for support. Book her.”
Yeah, that is exactly what I was thinking. How did this not get referred to the DA? The “family” court judge should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting, at the very least. And perhaps disbarred, as he/she didn’t report a known crime.
I hope there is a civil rights lawyer in Arizona who will help this guy.
The law in question is not designed for or against the victim. It is designed to protect the state in that the cost of the raising of the child is mitigated by having the baby daddy (even if under age) to pay towards that cost.
As always, follow the money.
words fail me about this misleading title...
Common sense and decency.
I know of a case where woman raped as a teenager by an adult man has to pay child support to her rapist.
Thankfully, the money owed was determined to be due to the child, not the rapist.
That’s not how it works. His child is six, so the money goes to her “parent” or “guardian”; which means the money goes to the woman who raped him, meaning the rapist.
She gets to spend it as she wants - on shoes, booze, drugs, or even clothes and toys for the child... but in my experience, not.
/bitter? you betcha
IIRC this isn’t the first such case.
It’s an outrage.
Why is it misleading?
Look at the source... The NYT it’s not.
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