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...every good reason, no one wants to think about people like Robert Torres and David Oakley making children. Torres, a 20-year-old Texan, was sentenced in 1999 for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. This year, at a parole-violation hearing, he admitted impregnating two other teens. ("I make mistakes," he said.) Wisconsinite Oakley, 34, has a 15-year rap sheet that includes theft and witness intimidation. In the meantime, he has sired nine children (one of whom he abused) by four women...
...April, Texas District Judge J. Manuel Banales ordered Torres not to have sex with anyone, minor or adult, until he married--or "you will go to prison for life." He expressed a fear that Torres would be a deadbeat dad. The Wisconsin Supreme Court was marginally more lenient with Oakley last week, merely sustaining a lower-court ruling that would jail him for eight years if he fathered another child without proving he could support his entire brood...
Laws against deadbeat parents have toughened, but scofflaws still owe $11 billion a year, and anger at chronic offenders is growing. Oakley owes $25,000, despite civil citations and garnishments. The Wisconsin court's four-person majority (all male) focused on his behavior. Wrote Justice William Bablitch: "It is overwhelmingly obvious that any child he fathers will be doomed to a future of neglect, abuse or worse...
...Supreme Court declared procreation a basic human right in 1942. It reaffirmed it in 1978 by overturning a Wisconsin law forbidding child-support-delinquent citizens to marry if they could not show that their children could be kept off welfare. Similarly, activists like the A.C.L.U.'s Catherine Weiss say Oakley's sentence "runs dangerously close to having a financial test for parenthood." Such fears are not utterly unfounded. Between 1907 and 1964, tens of thousands of people deemed "genetically inferior"--including many poor people, minorities and petty criminals--were sterilized by law in some 30 states. Justice Bradley wrote that...
...York really fall in love with today’s Knicks. A healthy following does exist, but the draw seems to be a sort of morbid fascination rather than real affection. Some fans are repulsed by the thug image perpetuated by some of the players—Charles Oakley and Anthony Mason four years ago or Latrell Sprewell and Kurt Thomas today. Other fans are only mildly interested by the constant subplot, but never really grow attached to the actual team...