Desmond Hatchett, 29, Arrested Over Child Support Not Given To His 21 Kids
This has to be some sort of record. 29 year old Desmond Hatchett lives in Knoxville, Texas and is the father of 21 kids all with different mothers. This is so very sad, sick, and unfortunate for the kids and their families.Hatchett is fathering children ranging from 11 years to newborn. He fathered four children in one year - twice. This man is surely popular with the ladies and has been busy procreating.
Hatchett, understandably, isn't able to support them all on his minimum wage salary. So the Tennessee court hauled him off to court last Friday where he appeared on the docket eleven times - representing 15 of his 21 children.
The state is only allowed to take 50% of Hackett's month pay, and when divided twenty-one ways, it isn't paying for much. He brought $400 to court with him. Court records
indicate that he must pay the women a monthly sum ranging from $25 to $305. When his paycheck is garnished, these women are actually receiving an average of $1.98 per month.
Under the circumstances, it appears that the financial burden rests squarely on the shoulders of the good citizens of Tennessee..and their tax dollars.
Hatchett claims he wasn't out to set a record. "I didn't intend to have this many. It just happened."
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I actually, believe it or not, met a man a little older than Hatchett that fathered pretty much the same amount of kids. He told me a story about how he had two girls, by different mothers, who happened to share the same birthday. They wanted to meet each other on their 14th birthday for the first time and when they did they looked up at their dad and started crying saying "daddy it's so weird, she looks just like me."
This sort of thing should never, ever happen. The poor kids.
