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  • From: "Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>
  • To: "Homestead mailing list" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] go ahead, Drew, claim women are at fault ...
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:54:38 -0700

http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/reuters09-29-220128.asp?t=renew&vts=93020040723<http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/reuters09-29-220128.asp?t=renew&vts=93020040723>



Court of Ohio Asserts Man's Right to Procreate


COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - The Ohio Supreme Court asserted a man's
''right to procreate'' on Wednesday and ruled that a father of seven could
not be threatened with jail for skipping child support if he fathered more
children.


Five of seven judges agreed the 2002 sentence meted out to Sean Talty
was ''overbroad'' by threatening him with a year in jail if he fathered
another child.


Talty, 32, has seven children by five different women and was $38,000
behind in child support payments.


''(The sentence) restricts Talty's right to procreate without
providing a mechanism by which the prohibition can be lifted if the relevant
conduct (providing child support) should change,'' Chief Justice Thomas Moyer
wrote for the majority.


Moyer dismissed prosecutors' argument that Talty had been given a
break because if he had been sent to prison on the original felony
convictions for failure to pay child support for three of his children he
would not have been allowed conjugal visits.





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