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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Child Support Made Me Do It

A man has claimed that he attempted to rob a bank because he was under such financial burden from his child support.

From Channel 4 News:

Forty-five year old Paul Pasillas pleaded guilty Monday in Carson City District Court to robbing the First National Bank of Nevada with a pellet gun on March 10th. He faces up to 15 years in prison when sentenced next month by District Judge Michael Griffin.

State Public Defender Steve McGuire says Pasillas was in financial straits after falling behind in child support payments and trying to provide for his girlfriend's family. While entering his plea, Pasillas apologized for his crimes, saying the robbery was out of character.


The child support issue is no excuse and this man should certainly be punished for his offenses, but I can't help but emphasize with him just a bit. The amount of money being charged for child support these days is outrageous and god help you if you get behind the eight ball with them. They'll come after everything you have.

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OUR LIBERTIES WE PRIZE AND OUR RIGHTS WE WILL MAINTAIN:

I am an American,I served in the forces that guarded my nation. The price of peace was borne by me,my brothers and sisters throughout the generations of this country. Our elders are forgotten by an ungrateful government,that does not recall how it came to exist. Our young kindred,brothers & sisters,die daily from lack of suitable equipment and then may face another enemy upon return home,the State.  They may suffer more upon return to America, than at war, their personal lives destroyed and held hostage by ungrateful States with no dignity,or morals. States with clerks,drunk with power,seeking a profit ratio at any cost,for their general fund.

THE FACTS ARE THESE: I served this country faithfully in war and in peace including three tours overseas. I was severely injured during my military service,breaking my neck,and have struggled to work as my injuries have worsened each day. The time came when I was no longer able to maintain the normalcy of my life through many activities,including the ability to work as I had done since I was 14 years old.

The reward for my faithful service is to suffer at the hands of the unique brand of proceedings known as Kansas justice. I was drug in chains in 1988 to answer a charge of non support,facilitated by the false statements of my Ex-wife,a Kansas resident,stipulating criminal non support from 1988 to 1998. The civil court record itself exposed her lie,and clearly reflected I had primary residential custody of children in 1989,1990,&1991. The children were only returned to her so that I could serve this ungrateful nation overseas during Desert Storm. The prosecutor didn’t even bother to check the court and payment records,since it didn’t advance her objective!

I was not surprised by her bearing false witness. Nine months after we were married she was caught in a multi-year embezzlement scheme in which she had stolen thousands of dollars from her employer. Her Father and I paid a hefty settlement and the poor couple,who owned the business did not press criminal charges. The financial settlement for her misdeeds is recorded in documentation kept by a veteran Wichita lawyer.

I gave all of my advance pay and advance travel pay and sold much of what I owned to pay for her crime which I did not even know she had committed. I went without eating overseas because of the weight of the repayment,I sent her to the United States. I was required to be overseas,I could not bear to see her go hungry. The Turks who made only about $200 a month wanted to help me since I was impoverished due to her actions. During our divorce,her Father,being a devout Catholic,demanded an annulment of our marriage. I being a Protestant,bore the blame for her lack of continuing in the Catholic church. She neglected to tell her Father that the abortion she had in her teens was the real reason for her departure from Catholicism.

I think sometimes I should have help to ensure that she was prosecuted when she embezzled all that money over a period of years. The couple who hired her were very good people. They gave her the first real job she had ever had,and they trusted her. They eventually trusted her to do bookkeeping and she used this to steal from them. A major corporate client had errantly made a double payment of nearly $7K and she over a period of years,issued refunds to non existent people and pocketed the money. I’d been married to her 9 months when this was all discovered. The couple who owned the business,had gave us a lavish dinner and gifts when we were married. They were devastated that she had done this. She was shown mercy. Her Father and I protected her,we did as Christ would have us do. I am deeply hurt that she showed no mercy to my beloved youngest son. She prosecuted him to the fullest extent the law would allow,and discarded him. He came to me exactly on his 18th birthday,homeless,he will always be my son. His older brother is my son also,I miss him daily.

During the years my sons suffered miserably at the hand of my Ex and her husband. She sat passively as her husband insanely chopped up my youngest son toy car with an axe. He manhandled my children. I talked to my Wichita lawyer,I even gave him an audio tape. He said it wasn’t bad enough for the State to do anything. She neglected and forgot them until the time came when she could prosecute my son for $180 taken from her ATM card. She prosecuted my youngest son,to the fullest extent of the law,forgetting her own thefts which were 40 times worse in severity. He was 14 years old. She sent him on this spiral with the help of civil servants. Last summer,she left him homeless and only took him home when it appeared DHS in Kansas would become involved.The children themselves witnessed these events,and the homeless shelters maintain records.

She blocked my efforts to help my children. This has always been a monetary matter,she tried to portray herself as a victim of a crime and filed for anonymity. I never raised my hand to my wife or children,this victim status was based strictly on money owed. She lied to the court when my youngest son was troubled. She told the Sedgwick County Kansas court she didn’t know where I was,while she was happily spending the over $600 a month that had been garnished weekly and she had received in child support from 1999 until 2001. I point out this all happened after the Kansas warrant of 26 Jul 99. I registered with the centralized registry,paid federal and state tax,and everyone knew where I was,Kansas’ only worries when there profits will decline.

She avoided the Kansas statute which specifies that parents,regardless of child support indebtedness,be notified when their children are involved in such serious difficulties.I imagine Kansas would say,you were wanted. Given the serious nature of my son’s difficulties,all options should have at least been considered. The court was misled by her again,my son had other family in Iowa who would have helped him.

Last summer,I contacted my youngest son and found she had left him homeless. Members of my family went to Kansas to get him,but he stayed in Kansas,hoping his mother would help him and that she really did love him. It is indeed hard for a boy to believe that his own mother would not love him. She told him she didn’t want to be responsible for him anymore.

She agreed to send him to Iowa ONLY IF he could also bring his 16-year girl friend. This was indeed a bizarre twist since she was willing to pay bus fare for both children. I could not accept these terms since depriving another parent of their child was both wrong and illegal. It became apparent that her goal was to trap me and my family in a felony child abduction situation. No one would remember how this young girl came to Iowa,only that she was here. There are witnesses to these events. The girl who she conspired to use to send to Iowa, was in the hands of a Catholic outreach program for troubled youth last I knew. My sons are now 20 and 18. My youngest son,having spent years in Kansas juvenile custody,learned much from these experiences. He found new friends in Kansas detention facilities. These “friends” were well skilled to teach my son their ways.

The State of Kansas refused to acknowledge the existence of my daughter in any calculation,never performed any income reviews,their worksheets on child support are worthless to me,they would never allow them to be used. The fact is they consistently demanded more than statutory guidance,would never recognize change of circumstance or any other applicable factors. I guess the statutes only apply to Kansas residents.

I wrote a Governor ”No government,state,country,empire,principality, or judge has the right or authority to deny the existence of any child or person. God calls us all from the womb by name,it is by his beckon we exist,not by statute or authority of any State or government,my daughter has a right to exist!”

I asked my attorney to file for a reduction,he withdrew my motion,he did not want anyone to get upset with him. I have to come to realize that my lawyer had a female client,who lived with my ex-wife and her family. I may have been sand bagged throughout all the proceedings,both civil & criminal.

The Kansas sheriff’s department wanted in the game,How dare anyone want civil rights and due process to prevail? The point of contact for the Sheriff tried to make sure that he used every opportunity to add to the pain to situation,he is the worst of all in this nightmare:

1) The Sheriff’s department ignored a strike one order issued by an Iowa District Court Judge and specifically faxed to a the point of contact deputy,requiring the removal of a warrant from NCIC during extradition proceedings. The Judge (on the record)had a deputy verify by phone that the fax was received. One of the two deputies who flew the extradition flight,mocked me and said We would have never taken the warrant off NCIC. It was funny,he waited until we landed in Wichita to tell me this. I knew the Sedgwick County DA had sent a letter supposedly verifying the removal from NCIC,someone obviously lied. I figured I had better not say anything,if they were willing to lie,who knows what they were willing to do.

2)During December of 2004,I was stopped for a minor traffic violation here in Iowa and was held in custody too long because the Sheriff’s department continued their antics. I waived extradition to go to Kansas. They purposely delayed the Kansas’ declination to extradite so I could languish in jail at their discretion. The Iowa deputy,who released me told me Kansas and their point of contact were responsible for the delay. Remember,they had already ignored a valid court order,and now were manipulating the system to ensure I was held in jail too long.

3) The most amazing violation occurred in 2004,when the Kansas county sheriff’s department filed a survey and notice with a federal government agency stating in writing that I was wanted for “obstruction of justice,”a crime that I have never been charged with in any court! I guess for them that wouldn’t be a problem,it is just standard operating procedure. I sent the Kansas Judge emails on Nov 30,2004 & 10 Dec 2004 explaining some of these things.

I do know folks got real upset that I wouldn’t plead guilty. I was in my attorney’s office years ago,when your prosecutor called him. She demanded I plead guilty and they got into an argument She told my attorney she was the prosecutor in a big trial (murder,I believe) and she didn’t have time for this case. She got mad and fixed him (and me), she amended the charge from 1988-1998 to reflect 1996-1998 and didn’t notify my attorney. How does a State with access to all the records make a mistake of eight years on a filing of this nature?  My attorney was caught flat footed at the Preliminary hearing,not that he really cared. He had a big case as the prosecutor in an federal government case. My attorney insisted I waive the preliminary hearing,he said no one would believe me if I were to testify on my own behalf,I asked him to request a continuance and he refused.

I guess I shouldn’t have expected too much. On the way back from the preliminary hearing I said to my attorney, “Well,at least we still have my narrative.” I’d wrote a multi page narrative to my attorney to help him to defend me,it showed the impossibility of the time period my Ex had sworn to in her statements,and other info. I was in Iowa and I mailed it to him. My attorney told me at that moment that he had given this attorney-client privileged document to the prosecutor. This charge hadn’t changed in many months, but after he gave the document to the prosecutor,the charge was magically amended.

Later that month,we went for a hearing and I was ready to go to trial,when this pre trial recognizance was presented in the court room. I told my attorney I can’t pay $700 a month, I only make $7 an hour! He told me to shut up. After the court proceeding,he told me I would go to jail if I didn’t sign the pretrial recognizance form.I had no idea all this was happening. I was released on this agreement,which ordered I pay $700 a month, when I only made $940 a month,the document is in the court record. The judge said a second job would not be garnished. Yet another falsehood in application,when I returned to Iowa,they garnished both jobs and left my daughter to starve.

I am far too idealistic,government for the people,by the people,and of the people perished a long time ago. I guess I should feel fortunate that the Kansas Sheriff’s department didn’t tell the feds I was a murderer. Perhaps if I go to Kansas,I will be killed by these persons (not unrealistic,since I was in a holding cell with a convicted murderer)and then they won’t be getting any more letters to upset their daily routine.

I have had an accomplice these many years,Christ my King,who I prayed to protect my people and my land ,that I could raise my third and remaining child,and that her life would not be without her Father. This is metaphorical,I have no land,since it would be raped from me by the state. In fact,violent criminals and molesters have more rights than I. I cannot even possess a driver’s license,I do not have the mark of the beast of the state. It is an old story,an uncompromising government that enslaves and demands that the tally of bricks without straw shall not decrease.

It is now proposed that I come to Kansas based on a warrant issued by the Kansas court,26 Jul 99. This is the most incredible issue of the entire case. On 26 Jul 1999,a Kansas Court Services Officer swore and subscribed an oath before a court aide to get a warrant for my arrest. The officer swore that I had been convicted of the felony crime of non support,was given probation from my sentence and confinement (in prison) and that I had violated that probation based on the conviction of this crime. The court aide signed the document,and the Kansas Judge issued a warrant attesting to the facts and posted a bond of $50,000 for me. I’m sure this is not a problem for them and Kansas justice. I have a concern however,I WAS NEVER CONVICTED OF THIS CRIME! I WAS NEVER IN PRISON,NEVER SENTENCED,AND HAVE NEVER EVEN BEEN TO TRIAL! I have been denied employment & benefits based on the false sworn statement,and now I am beckoned to come to Kansas and go to trial with a Judge who signed this order! I realize the Patriot Act has taken some of our rights,but I didn’t realize it had gone this far!

America’s Fathers are tortured daily as States such as Kansas abandon all ethics to gain a 9% windfall for the state,while charging ten percent (10%) per annum on arrearage,well beyond the prime interest rate. I bet someone is already calculating the windfall for Kansas,in hopes that the disabled,wounded,and maimed Vets of the future will be ensnared by these traps. The money is to support important projects like your Kansas’ Attorney General’s glossy,signed photo mailings to his fans - source Kansas AG website.

I am a simple country boy,disabled through service to this nation,having served & lived in places where you would not even stop to buy gas. I am aligned against these big city folks,and they certainly have overwhelming capability. I simply have come to know this is how things work in Kansas.  I reckon I will have to do the best I can.

I will do as I have done for many years. I will pray against the godless state,and you,that God and Christ,my King will hear the voice of the an insignificant man. I do not know the outcome or the future,but I do know I have never been alone. I may be as the men thrown into the fiery furnace by the State,they were not alone,even in the flames. God always hears the voice of slaves.

There will come a day and an appellate, where my advocate will stand. He was a poor man who lived in the shadow of an oppressive government. Perhaps I will be chief among the unworthy,not worthy to unlatch the shoe of that advocate. I am thankful that advocate will stand for me and those down trodden by governments throughout time.

US DAD on September 29, 2005 at 03:09 am
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