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Article: Man who didn't pay child support gets maximum term of 51 months His desire to be a minister is no excuse, judge says
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 16, 1999
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A man who says he has been called by God to a traveling ministry
can travel to prison and minister there, a Washington County judge
said Wednesday while sentencing him for criminal failure to pay child
support.
Thomas D. Redlich is the first person convicted by a Washington
County jury of failing to pay child support. The jury earlier this
fall found Redlich guilty on all four counts he faced: one felony and
three misdemeanor charges of intentionally failing to pay child
support for periods ranging up to 121 days at a time.
In court Wednesday, Circuit Judge Annette Ziegler gave Redlich the
maximum sentence for those four counts -- a total of 51 months in
prison. He will be required ...