Posted on 01/27/2015 1:35:02 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
DETROIT (WXYZ) - Carnell Alexander is a wanted man. The reason? He refuses to pay child support for a child that is proven to not be his. As a result, a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
7 Action News told you about Carnell Alexander in October. He said he was looking for help clearing up a terrible mistake.
Alexander says he learned about the paternity case against him during a traffic stop in Detroit in the early 90s. The officer told him he is a deadbeat dad, there was a warrant out for his arrest.
“I knew I didn’t have a child, so I was kind of blown back,” said Alexander during an interview in October.
He would later learn this happened because his ex needed help caring for her kids.
“I put him down as father to get assistance,” she told 7 Action News.
She didn’t realize that would start a paternity case. The state would want to get reimbursement for welfare benefits from the child’s dad.
A process server turned in paperwork to the court saying Carnell had been notified of the paternity hearing. The paperwork said the notification happened at a house in Highland Park. Because on paper he had been given notice, when he didn’t show up at court, he was legally listed as father by default.
7 Action News found out there must have been some mistake. On the day Carnell was allegedly served at a house in Highland Park, the Michigan Department of Corrections says he was actually incarcerated for a crime he committed as a young man.
He could not have possibly been served as recorded. It is unknown whether this was fraud or a case of mistaken identity.
By the time Carnell learned about the paternity case, judges told him it was too late. Legally he owes the state more than $30 thousand for assistance paid to care for a child.
“A child that I did not father, that I did not biologically create, that I was not involved in raising,” said Carnell. “It is not fair.”
DNA tests prove the child is not his. The real father was in the child’s life, but the state never pursued him for payment as far as Carnell and the child’s mother know.
Carnell refuses to pay. As a result, the warrant was issued for his arrest. He plans to turn himself in on Friday.
“I will go to jail if I have to because I am tired of the mishandling of the case,” said Carnell.
“It’s not right,” said Murray Davis of the National Family Justice Association.
Davis says there are thousands of men in Carnell Alexander’s shoes because Michigan doesn’t have paternity fraud laws that protect men.
When there is evidence a woman mistakenly or purposefully declares the wrong man as husband, it doesn’t necessarily impact paternity obligations.
Davis did a study a few years back that looked at how many of the men who are declared fathers by default in Wayne County are indeed the father. He says DNA tests found 79% of the time they are not.
“It is so easy to say anyone is the father while applying for assistance,” said Davis.
Attorney Cherika Harris has volunteered to try to help Carnell Alexander. She said she will ask a judge to lift the arrest warrant when he turns himself in Friday.
While I agree with your statement, I don't even have the time to write a narrative of the atrocity of injustice that my ex-girlfriend had to endure following her divorce from an abusive and alcoholic ex-husband..........
That is how I feel every year when I go to the school tax office and pay for the education costs (ISD School Tax) for other people’s children.
agreed. the article states “Davis says there are thousands of men in Carnell Alexander’s shoes because Michigan doesn’t have paternity fraud laws that protect men”. but I don’t have any idea why you would have to have a special law to cover what is on the surface a very straightforward case of fraud, paternity or otherwise. fraud is fraud
When will these women start naming bill clinton and getting a bonus check in the mail
some chick should list Barry Seotoro as the father... that’d get interesting
Yeah. Right.
A few years ago, I spent a year as a volunteer with a Family and Child Abuse agency. I was able to attend a lot of informative training with professional social workers, and I learned a lot of "inside info".
It is common knowledge that about 30% (Yes - THIRTY PERCENT!) of all child support in the US is being paid by men who are NOT the fathers.
The courts don't care. The agencies just want the money. And the people who run the agencies are generally the type who believe that all MEN are guilty of something, and must be punished.
Besides, the actual fathers probably have a lower income than the "named" father (if any income at all), so it's financially desirable to simply "choose" a guy with a job.
30%?!?!??! Wow!
,I’ve found our where all the jobs are. Want a job, there’s plenty of expansion going on here. HELL. Yes, satan is expanding like crazy. Such demand for additional souls like the DCF and CPS folks that are destined for HELL. Including the corrupt lawyers and judges to boot.
This ‘mom’ defrauded the State for $30 large. Why is she not in prison?
Try not reporting income worth $30,000 in income taxes owed, and see if you don’t end up in prison.
They’re prosecuting the wrong person.
This poor sap can’t even appeal to a jury for nullification, as it is ‘Family Court’ and there are no Jury Trials.
Guilty until Proven Dead.
“She was told that in order to get welfare she had to name a dad on paperwork. She put down Carnell’s name.”
What, she didn’t know the name of the real father?
Well, Calhoun was the lawyer.
But Kingfish could be anyone or anything he wanted to be. Kingfish is one of my all-time favorite TV characters; he was an absolute classic.
“The boy must have Kingfish as his Lawyer...”
Algonquin J. Calhoun would defend him better maybe! LOL
Only if she knew he has a bent one. It would have been a safer bet to say "The Cos drugged me."
It's called criminal fraud
She had to swear that it is the truth, under penalty of incrceration ..
Aided and abetted by the courts, depite the truth being found out by genetic investigation.
Genetic testing is sufficient for court testimony for a 'cold case', but not sufficient when it comes to money .
And then they wonder why males are a vanishing species, and why there are so many "baby's daddy"'s whose first name they don't even remember.
The guilty parties are the mother , and the courts for allowing this corruption of the law.
Anything for the State to regain outstanding monies , even if the 'alledged father' isn't relly the father.
Go figure !
Well, I suppose this is what carnell knowledge got him.
Judgie Poo does things like this because his agenda is the destruction of citizen faith & confidence in the American legal system - then his beloved socialism can have its “day in the sun’.
I am guessing you already know
Putting mom in jail will cost more money than it will net the family court.
Extorting 'not' dad has a real good chance of bringing home the bacon
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.