(CNN) -- Frank Hatley spent the past year in jail for being a deadbeat dad. But there's one problem -- Hatley doesn't have any children. And the "deadbeat" label doesn't fit the 50-year-old either, his supporters say.

Childless man freed after serving time for child support violations - CNN.com

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Maybe I am not understanding this, but are they making him pay child support even though it's not his child?

The mother should actually be made to pay him back.

This again is one of those things, that is all backwards to me. The mother of the child owes him back money, so does the state. Grrrrr

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So unbelievably assinine! Someone, in the court system, should be taken to task for this.

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problem is, they apply for states assistance, some one will have to pay that back. and i dont feel he should have too sense learning that is not his child.

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