“Sure, Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry has a $25 million contract and a base monthly salary approaching $50,000, but that kind of bill can still crimp your style when you’re accustomed to expensive cars and fancy jewelry ” and lots of other child support payments.” writes the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Ty Tagami. Or as David Roth put it, “Touches, it seems, are not and will not be a problem for King T. This could be the story that makes Mushnick’s beard fall out.”
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 with Jameshia Beacham, now 29.
Henry isn’t the most thrifty guy, according to court records, so the judge wants to ensure payment by establishing an unusual $250,000 trust that Henry must fund by next spring.
Seeliger wrote that the football player displayed “bad judgment in his spending habits,” dropping $100,000 for a car and $146,000 for jewelry. Meanwhile, Henry fell behind on support payments for his child with Beacham that were mandated by a previous order. Threatened with jail, he borrowed $9,800 from his former team, the Tennessee Titans, to pay the bill, according to court records.
His lawyer, Shiel Edlin, said that to his knowledge the trust would be without precedent in Georgia. A quarter-million dollars is a lot of money, even for Henry, Edlin said. “He has some concerns and he’s weighing his options.”
Beacham could not be reached for comment. Her lawyer, Robert Wellon, said he asked that the trust be set up because Henry rarely made the payments mandated by an earlier order, though they were $800 less a month. Wellon said there was testimony establishing that Henry received a $1 million bonus earlier this year but quickly spent most of it, buying, among other things, a Mercedes and gold jewelry.
“My argument was, if he makes wise investments, other than in gold chains, then he should be able to make the payments,” Wellon said.
With a mug like his he should get a vasectomy to make sure he dont father a kid half ugly as he is. And the Child support should go in a trust to the kids. No woman that would sleep with this man should be allowed to handle money. They were obviously money grabbers who were trying to get paid. Hope this guy takes better care of his kids and his self.
His example for living begs a question. i.e. When does a human being choose to stop earning, by his outrageous, repetitive, and inhumane lack of responsibility, the right to be called a human being and be called what his actions more accurately describe him as? A runaway reproductive organ on a life-support system.