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Judge orders man to stop breeding
A US judge has ordered a man with nine children to stop procreating until he can afford to pay for them.
Corey Curtis, 44, of Racine, Wisconsin, was told to stop breeding as a condition of probation until he can financially support his nine children from six different women, The Smoking Gun reported.
Racine County Judge Tim Boyle sentenced Curtis to the rare punishment as a condition of a three-year probation order for failing to pay $50,000 in child support, plus another $40,000 in interest.
"Common sense dictates you shouldn't have kids you can't afford," Judge Boyle said. "I will make that a condition of the probation."
Curtis told CBS 58 that he planned to comply with the condition.
"Judges, they make rulings," he said, "they make them kind of hastily. So, if that's what he feels one of my conditions should be then I'm going to abide by it."
Court records showed that Curtis has been arrested and charged with failure to pay child support on numerous occasions over the past 11 years.
what do you think?
Adrian Wagstaff
Yeah! Imagine NINE children all going around a supermarket taking food off the shelves, then you see WHY! What do they expect is going to happen? People can have as many babies as they like?
Brian Quinn
Bring the Judge to the UK - plenty of work for him here.
john
If you can't feed them, don't breed them!
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movvi
This is a ruling that could and rightly should have been made hastily - it's clear to see this man has too many children. It angers me that people are so irresponsible.
SagePhotoWorld
It would be interesting to see whether he could be sentenced to improve his chances of getting a better job in order to pay for the children. As it is, a ban on procreation is worthless. Much better to help him become able to pay.
simon williams
what aload of rubbish you can have as many kids as you want .
movvi
I do hope that's sarcasm! Of course you CAN have as many children as you want (in theory), but SHOULD you?
Brian Holmes
How about "You can have as many kids as you can pay care and provide for"?
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jones.emyr
12:23pm on 5/12/2012
Bring your family to Britain Corey, we`d love to help pay for them.
movvi
6:33pm on 5/12/2012
Grrr! I am so glad you are sarcastic sometimes.
Roy E Millington
12:27pm on 6/12/2012
child allowance should only be paid for the first two, why should everybody pay for other peoples kids!!!!!