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Corruption in child support…‘Bounced cheques, court system is frustrating’- aggrieved single parents

Sep 28, 2013 News

 

 

By  Kiana Wilburg
Mothers who find it extremely difficult to obtain money from the fathers of their children invariably turn to the court. However, according to a group of single parent mothers, that system is also frustrating.
On Thursday, some women gathered at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and were frustrated after their child support cheques were not honoured.
One perturbed woman said, “This court system just sickening. They have issues and they need to rectify them. Just imagine this is what you have to go through just to get some money.”
However, Mr. Mohamed Bacchus, who is the clerk of courts, said that the problem has been rectified as it was due to the court having instituted a new signatory.
So, when the women thought that the issue of bounced cheques would have been the last of their troubles, they turned up yesterday just a few minutes after 10 am, only to be greeted with another setback.  They were told by the clerks to return on Monday for their cheques because they, the women had come too late.
The women explained that despite their pleas for an excuse since they were not aware of the change in the time, they were told that nothing could be done.
One woman said, “We told them we have obligations and children at home to take care of but it is as though they don’t care.”
Another woman who was in tears said, “My house will now have to go without groceries for the weekend because of this nonsense that they are going on with.”
“They told us how the bank ain’t got money and the bank giving them problems but they don’t know the agony they putting us through. They did not notify us that there will be a new time to collect money. And if that is the case, they should inform us. Why weren’t we notified of this new change?”
Another mother of four young children related, “Oh gosh, I beg them to see if they could do something for me but they determined that I came too late. The thing is, if you change the time and you now have a new procedure why not inform mothers with a two-day notice or something, so that we can be able to adjust our schedules to deal with this? If is not one thing is the next.
“My children are at home now and I am depending on my last $2000 for the weekend to carry us through. The court supposed to help us but they only making matters worse.”
Another woman said that she was informed by a confidential source inside the court, that the issue with child support is one that reeks of corruption and should be investigated. She said, “The court ain’t got money.
“There was an issue some time ago where one of the court clerks de thief up all the child support money and just disappear. Since then the court was never able to catch back itself. According to my source, what is happening is a first come, first serve situation. So, if three men pay child support on one day which ever three women come early getting the money and so the men who think that money going to their wives really are mistaken.”
But this cannot be true since the sums vary according to the beneficiaries.

 

 

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