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MOST WANTED DEADBEAT PARENTS®
CONCEPT

Billions of dollars of Court Ordered child and general support payments are currently owed to various custodial parents throughout the United States. Divorce, Legal Separation or abandonment by male or female parents has reached epidemic proportion during recent years resulting in the remaining custodial parent often being placed in the position of totally inadequate funding to care for a child or children. Using a national television program, Most Wanted Deadbeat Parents will feature specific “deadbeat” parents who have abandoned their responsibility and children physically and financially and who have failed to comply with court ordered support payments. Very similar to the successful “America’s Most Wanted®” program, Most Wanted Deadbeat Parents will seek the help of the viewing public to locate the “deadbeats.”
Most Wanted Deadbeat Parents was created by Sherry B. Haskins, a Pennsylvania mother whose spouse abandoned her soon after she gave birth to triplets. Ms. Haskins is currently owed over $45,000 in unpaid court ordered child support.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Currently, fifteen (15) States have a “Most Wanted” list of “Deadbeat Parents” who have failed to comply with Court Ordered support payments with Illinois at the top of the list with approximately $11,501,668.00 in unpaid support payments outstanding. The most recent figures available from these states (2008) show over $22 BILLION dollars in unpaid support payments. This figure represents only the “most wanted” in each state and quite possibly could be as much as double if all outstanding and “deadbeat” non-payments were included. As with most bureaucratic Agencies, Child Support Services Departments in ALL states are over-worked due to the extremely high number of cases and, due to the current national financial situation, are under budgeted. Locating “deadbeat” parents is extremely difficult as many employers who have been made aware of outstanding financial obligations by the “employee” are paying off-the-books with no record of compensation being issued or filed with any Federal or State Revenue organization. Many or most of these “deadbeat” parents do not file Federal or State Income Tax Returns making locating them OR tracking their finances difficult if not impossible. The Deadbeat Parent problem not only affects the Custodial Parent and Children…it affects all tax payers as many of these parents/children must be supported by the Welfare System. The arrest and incarceration of the ‘deadbeat’ offender does little to help the Non Custodial Parent or children as while in jail, the offender cannot work and thus, cannot make ANY payments. As such, in addition to having to financially support the remaining parent and children, the state must now assume the cost of incarceration of the offender. Most Wanted Deadbeat Parents is intended to, through the help of the general viewing public, locate serious “deadbeat” offenders and through local law enforcement agencies, bring them before the courts where they can, at the courts discretion, be possibly placed in work-release or half-way programs where they can generate revenues that can be used to meet their financial obligations.

WHERE WILL THE PROGRAM AIR?

Most Wanted Deadbeat Parents is being produced and distributed by Schaefer Entertainment Group International, Inc. (SEGI) based in Tampa, Florida.

Most Wanted Deadbeat Parents is being produced for national distribution, (Producers have received interest in airing the show from four (4) broadcast/cable networks) and special edits of the show will be produced and aired in targeted and specific geographic locations throughout the United States. As example, one “local” show might feature deadbeat “victims” from Dallas-Ft. Worth area with that show airing only on a local DFW station, then move to the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio area to feature victims from the Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky markets. This “regional airing” concept allows the Producers to focus on specific problem areas of the country and not only provide a concentrated feature segment with local “victims”, but provide the opportunity for local advertising and sponsorship participation.

FORMAT
Most Wanted Deadbeat Parents will be presented in a 1-hour television format in which four (4) of the most serious deadbeat offenders are profiled on-camera using photo’s, court records, interviews with acquaintances and victims and information obtained through public records in an attempt to narrow the geographic area in which the offender was last known to frequent and then bring in local law enforcement agencies. When possible, a MWDBP camera crew will be on-site when “deadbeats” located due to “tips” from television program viewers are apprehended by local law enforcement agencies.