Child-Support Case Posted on Internet
The search for parents who owe back child support has moved into cyberspace, with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office now posting electronic “wanted posters” of such parents on the Internet.
Charles Donald Powell Jr., 47, who allegedly owes more than $66,000 in back payments to two teenage sons, became the first to appear when the site went online last week, said a spokesman for the district attorney’s Bureau of Family Support Operations. Powell’s last known address was in Thousand Oaks.
Photographs of children who have been abducted by a parent also appear on the World Wide Web site, including one of a girl believed to have been taken to Iran.
“We can reach anywhere in the world in our search for those parents who either refuse to pay their child support or break the law by abducting their children in violation of court orders,” bureau Director Wayne Doss said.
The district attorney’s office’s home page is https://www.co.la.ca.us/da/.
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