A father of 11 revealed that he struggles to pay the thousands of dollars in child support he owes his ex-wife but claimed that he is not a “deadbeat dad.”
According to Donna McBaron, Daryl Whiting has unpaid debts that span several years and prevent her from being able to support his three teenage sons.
The 62-year-old, who lives in a bus conversion on a Townsville property in far northern Queensland, has claimed he just lacks the funds after fathering children with four separate women.
“Do you realize I will never be able to pay this,” I pleaded with the Child Support Agency over the phone around Christmas. A Current Affair was told by Mr. Whiting.
I simply said, “Well man, I am going to die owing the most child support ever,” to their statement that they would “get it out of you, one way or another.”
His family includes individuals in their 40s and a four-month-old kid. He is currently in a new relationship with a woman who is 32 years younger.
I’m not a bad father, he declared.
However, Donna has been accusing me of it for months on end.
According to Mr. Whiting, the amount of child support he owes is based on the profits he made from a lucrative company that he no longer owns.
He claims he has been paying his ex-wife $150 per month since their divorce 15 years ago to make up for some of the money owed.
Mr. Whiting gave the Nine program a history of transactions going back to March that showed the money being given out.
I suppose I’m not the smartest tool in the shed when it comes to stuff like that, he said, adding, “I don’t pay the child support industry, I pay it into her bank account.”
Ms. McBaron, meantime, claims that she is also having financial difficulties and relies on “charity and nice people” just to put food on the table.
The former hairdresser claimed that because two of her sons, now teenagers, have special needs, she was compelled to leave her career in order to care for them.
‘Everything has been done without. Everything in the house is broken and needs to be fixed, she remarked.
“Clothes, groceries—I can’t tell you how long I haven’t been able to go out and do my grocery shopping like regular folks. We rely on charitable giving and good deeds.
1.2 million Australian children received roughly $3.8 billion through CSA last year.