Dad sent lookalike to DNA test to avoid paying child support
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This dad stooped to new lows when he sent a look-alike to a paternity test so he could get out of paying child maintenance.
Thomas Kenny, 25, was in a long term relationship when he had an affair with another woman and got her pregnant, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
He tried to pressure her in to having an abortion but when she refused and he vowed to do everything he could to avoid paying up.
When the Child Support Agency demanded he have a DNA test craft Kenny send a dopleganger in his place.
He was convicted of fraud after the mother of Kenny’s first two children was also subjected to a DNA test – but he dodged an immediate jail term.
Summing up the case, Judge Philip Parker QC said Kelly was ‘dishonest and highly manipulative’.
He said: ‘One way or another you sent someone in your place. To deny you are the father of a child and send someone to give a false sample DNA sample is an extremely serious combination.
‘How much you would have got away with defrauding the state is difficult to know, but is a minimum of £5,000 if you remained unemployed for the 18 years of the child’s life.
‘I have read references from people who suggest that you are normally a well-behaved individual but the facts show that you can be thoroughly dishonest and highly manipulative.
‘I know you are said to be the loving father of two children by your longstanding relationship but this case shows you were prepared to disown a child of your own for financial gain. Morally you cannot sink lower than that.’
It is thought Kenny sent a work colleague that looked a bit like him to do the test.
Disgusting, can't get any lower as that as a father
A new low indeed. I can see this catching on though.
And this isn't even accounting for the lack of moral values but slay Atrl slay
