Posted on 12/10/2012 12:11:35 PM PST by DogByte6RER
'I should sterilize you': Deadbeat dad of nine agrees to judge's order to stop having kids
Corey Curtis, 44, owes about $90,000 in back child support and interest to the mothers of his children
Agrees with judge's order to curb his excessive breeding as a condition of a three-year probation term
Americas most infamous baby machine, Desmond Hatchett of Tennessee, has fathered more than 20 children with 11 women
A Wisconsin father of nine who's behind on child support payments has allegedly agreed with a judge's order not to have any more children until he can show he can provide for them.
Corey Curtis, who fathered the children with six women, owes nearly $100,000 in back child support and interest, according to Racine County prosecutors.
In sentencing the 44-year-old father Monday in Racine County Circuit Court for failing to pay support, Judge Tim Boyle lamented that he didn't have the authority to order sterilization for Curtis.
'Common sense dictates you shouldn't have kids you can't afford,' the judge said.
Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Sommers told the judge he did have some authority regarding Curtis' reproduction rights. Sommers cited a 2001 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling upholding a judge's power to order a defendant, as a condition of probation, to not procreate again unless he can show he can financially support the child.
'I will make that a condition of the probation,' Boyle said immediately, sentencing Curtis to three years' probation.
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Deadbeat dad: Corey Curtis, 44, of Racine, Wisconsin, owes about $90,000 in back child support and interest to the six mothers of his nine children.
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The other extreme of this coming is that the government can limit the amount of children a loving family wants someday.
Why the Hell don’t we CANCEL ALL entitlements if you have kids while receiving them! You can have kids if you want to, but we’re not going to pay for them.
I attended a parole hearing once where a petitioner acknowledged breeding 42 children during his interludes between prison terms. He felt very smug about this. His petition was denied, that time anyway.
We are going to have to deal with the parasite class. At some point, and that’s coming soon, we will not be able to pay for them to continue to live in this manner. Their demands on the rest of us are too great.
Now, we have moved beyond all that. Such stereotyping is a thing of the past and we have re-elected a black president.
Yet I was not at all surprised by the mugshot, just as I am not surprised to hear about a bunch of black kids ganging up on a single white or playing the "game" of cold cocking an unsuspecting person.
I guess this lack of surprise would out me as "racist" or something like that, but it is reality (as opposed to "as seen on TV" or in the movies) that is teaching me some things about my fellow Americans based upon the colors of our skin and what I can expect.
Something is wrong and it ain't Bush's fault and it isn't due to skin color. We now celebrate and glorify what we once considered shameful and immoral. Little wonder things are as they are.
We used to seek and used to have better teachers. They taught truth instead of society.
There s a scene in Atlas Shrugged where the discussion is about laws, how there are so many, and how nobody could possibly obey all the laws.
The government official says that’s not the point—the don’t want people to obey every law. They’ve designed the system so that everyone is a law breaker; so the legal system can be brought to bear against anyone at any time. It’s designed as a form of blackmail. Play ball with the government, and we’ll forget about those laws you are breaking. Don’t play ball, and the government will come down hard on you.
In this situation, the man has been told by a judge that if he “plays ball with the government” (voluntarily has himself sterilized) the legal system will go easy on him. If he doesn’t play ball, the government will come down hard on him.
A bad precedent for a good cause is still a bad precedent.
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