More on Travis Henry

According to a Colorado Fox News Report

"Broncos running back Travis Henry won't face discipline from the NFL over his child support issues.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello says the league's personal conduct policy "generally covers criminal violations, not civil matters" such as Henry's."


So the NFL cares about pit bulls, but not so much about children not being supported because of a technicality of civil vs. criminal? Way to go NFL!!

If you'd like to contact the NFL about this - here are a few ways to contact them.
212 450 2000 - NFL Headquarters.
Roger Goodell is the League Commissioner and Greg Aiello is the VP of Media/Spokesman


Just a note: Apparently Colorado doesn't have criminal options in child support until it reaches the federal level. I'll bet not all 9 children were conceived or reside in Colorado - maybe another state would look at it differently and maybe(?!?) the league would take a different look at it. Hard to know, since PETA isn't involved.

an email I received

It's certainly not just my child's father that won't pay for child support. I was copied on an email this week.

"Broncos running back Travis Henry has a lot of money. Enough that he has a $100,000 car. Enough that he's spent $146,000 on jewelry. But not enough to take care of his kids. "

The blog entry continues, quoting the Atlanta Constitution "Henry, 28, has fathered nine children by nine women in at least four Southern states and has been ordered by various judges to provide child support for seven of them, according to court records involving one child living in DeKalb County.

DeKalb Superior Court Judge Clarence Seeliger this week ordered Henry to provide $3,000 a month for the Lithonia boy he fathered out of wedlock three years ago"

Nine children! What I saw of the article didn't indicate how current he was on the other support orders, but if he's having to provide a trust for this one, I'll take a guess not terribly current.

Shameful!

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/08/25/broncos-running-back-travis-henry-has-nine-children-by-nine-diff/

I'll be posting stories of real people, and the amounts owed, current legislation - lack of effort on child support services etc. in the days to come.

More soon......


Hat tip to Maja for the email.