Okay obviosly your hearts were in the right place, but that came out of left field.
I think someone has to much time on their hands since NBA training camp started this week:)
GRAND RAPIDS (AP) — A western Michigan man accused of fathering 23 children with 14 women and has been sent to prison for at least two years for failing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in child support.
“Animals procreate. Human beings are supposed to nurture their children,” Kent County Circuit Judge Dennis Leiber said Thursday.
Howard Veal, 44, of Muskegon owes more than $533,000 in child support, according to the state attorney general’s office. He pleaded guilty in July to owing more than $60,000 to a Grand Rapids woman.
There are 14 child-support cases pending against him in Kent and Muskegon counties, The Grand Rapids Press reported.
The state has prosecuted thousands of support cases “but none as outrageous as this,” Assistant Attorney General Mitchell Wood said in a court filing.
Guidelines called for no more than six months in jail, but Veal was sentenced to two years to four years in prison. His release will be determined by the Michigan parole board.
Veal questioned whether he actually has 23 children and said he pays what he can.
“I was paying money from my unemployment,” Veal told the judge. “I never chose not to pay.”
A judge on Wednesday dismissed two charges against Howard K. Stern, the former lawyer and boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, in a trial over whether he and two doctors wrongly supplied prescription drugs to the model and TV actress.
Jurors tonight convicted Ofelia Garcia, the second Cicero woman charged in an acid attack that left a woman disfigured.
Garcia was found guilty on three counts of heinous battery.
Earlier today, after barely more than an hour of deliberations, a separate jury found Garcia’s former daughter-in-law, Maria Olvera-Garcia, guilty of three counts of heinous battery for the July 2008 attack on Esperanza Medina outside her Logan Square neighborhood apartment.
A 68-year-old woman who shot a 12-year-old boy has told a neighbor she was only trying to scare him off and feels remorseful about wounding him in the shoulder.
“She said, ‘I’ll never say what I did was right, but I’m tired,’ ” said the neighbor, who spoke to the woman known as “Miss Margaret” after she was released from police custody this morning.
“She asked, ‘What was I supposed to do? Let them hurt me?’” the neighbor added.