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Old February 11th 06, 03:08 AM posted to alt.child-support
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Default Man wrongly convicted now owes $38,000 in back child support


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[Moon's b.s. about alcoholism snipped]

Let's get back on topic, shall we? And while we're at it, here are

the
facts as they've been presented to us..

1. A guy gets busted for a crime he did NOT commit.
2. The state arrests him on the false charge of murder.
3. The state tries and convicts him of the false crime of murder.
4. Because of the states action against him (false arrest and
imprisonment
for 13 years), his C$ arrears mounts to astronomical levels

($38,000).
5. He attempts to have his C$ lowered, or stopped after he learns of
it.
The state refuses to allow him to do so.
6. After 13 years of imprisonment, the guy is found innocent

(witness
came
forward) and is released.
7. The state hands him a bill for $38,000 in C$ for the time they

kept
him
in prison and could make payments (remember, the state also said that
they
wouldn't allow him to have his C$ lowered while they kept an innocent
man
locked up, too).

So Moon, please explain to us how being arrested for a crime he

didn't
commit, spending 13 years in jail (unable to pay $100 a week in C$,

plus
interest, fees and penalties), being cut-off from his children, lose

of
his
job, lose of his home, lose of his belongings and car, is all the

guys
fault?

I didn't say it was all the guy's fault.

Moon, since about day one of this thread you've done nothing but infer

over
and over and over again that Souter is to blame for the trouble that the
state caused him.


He's in trouble for having not taken action about his child support. That

much is fairly indisputable.

Moon, he DID take action to stop his C$. The state REFUSED to act on his
motion.


And you come by this information where?

http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...0317/1001/news

"In 1987, before his conviction, Souter was ordered to pay $100 a week in his divorce with Christine Souter. He stopped
paying when he went to prison in 1992 but didn't ask to have payments suspended until 1995.

Court documents show that in 1997, he owed $23,000 in back support. As of last month, interest and penalties had pushed
it to $38,082.25."

Where do you see that the court refused to act on his motion? Certainly, by the time he asked to have his payments
suspended, he was already 3 years in arrears, and interest generally starts accruing once support is a full month in
arrears.