COUNTY APPROVES PROGRAM TO CATCH DEADBEAT PARENTS; GRANT ALSO TARGETS STATUTORY RAPE.Byline: Stacy Brown Daily News Staff Writer The county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. has approved a program to help prosecutors go after child-support payments from deadbeat dead·beat 1 Slang n. 1. One who does not pay one's debts. 2. A lazy person; a loafer. adj. Not fulfilling one's obligations or paying one's debts: a deadbeat dad. parents. Officials said the county will receive a $361,000 state grant for the program that also will augment efforts to prosecute statutory-rape defendants. Unless prosecuted, the same male adults may father several children by having unlawful sex with girls who are minors, officials say. ``The money given by the state will help us to pay for investigators, attorneys and secretaries we need to prosecute such cases,'' said Lori Howard, a spokeswoman for Supervisor Michael Antonovich. The money comes from the state Office of Criminal Justice Planning. It will allow Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County District Attorney Gil Garcetti Gilbert "Gil" Garcetti (b. August 5, 1941) served as Los Angeles County's 39th District Attorney for two terms, from 1992 until November 7, 2000. Background Gil Garcetti received a bachelor's degree in Management from the University of Southern California and a Juris to adopt a policy of letting the same prosecutor handle a case from start to finish, so victims can be spared telling their sensitive stories to different ones, said Sandi Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
The goal ``is simply allowing one prosecutor to handle a rape case from the preliminary hearings all the way to the end,'' Gibbons said. She said there are about 1,000 county prosecutors to handle a caseload case·load n. The number of cases handled in a given period, as by an attorney or by a clinic or social services agency. caseload Noun that includes nearly 70,000 felony cases at a time. ``So in most cases one prosecutor will start a case, and you'll have others who join in, and the victims then find themselves having to tell their story again,'' Gibbons said. The grant will pay for some supplemental help in prosecuting statutory-rape cases and enforcing child-support orders, Gibbons said. She said benefits will come first in central Los Angeles and then in Newhall and Sylmar. |
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