Dead Beat Dads - Part 1

On October 20, 2000 the state of Ohio filed a criminal complaint, on behalf of Loretta Serrano, in Avon Lake Municipal Court charging Edgar G. Serrano with domestic violence, a 1st degree misdemeanor. An Affidavit of Indigency was denied because the defendant’s income was too high. Edgar Serrano (Alfie) pled no contest and was found guilty on 10/26/2000. He chose the extended six-year payment plan to satisfy his $313.00 court debt and was sentenced to ten days in jail, which was twenty days shorter than Loretta’s suspended sentence from her ’98 assault conviction.

Case information: http://tinyurl.com/keg56

Docket: http://tinyurl.com/eu458

One might assume the next logical step would be to seek child support through the proper agencies on behalf of the minor, but Loretta Serrano marched to the beat of a different drum.

Loretta wrote: "When I contacted Alfie’s ex-wife in October 2000 to make her aware of my existence and that of my little boy’s, and to warn her that Alfie might be headed back to Houston, she responded to my letter with surprise and curiosity. For the first year or so, Alfie attempted to poison my impressions of his family and ex-wife to discourage me from communicating with them, since he knew they would expose his many misrepresentations and fantasies.

For awhile, I resisted the temptation to defy his mandate that I avoid researching his background through friends and family in Texas; but when he went to Houston without us that autumn, I no longer worried about his wrath. I was much more interested in tracking down Little Boy’s relatives and establishing a relationship with them for his sake." – June 16, 2005

(Note: In October 2000, Alfie was headed to jail in Ohio... not Houston!)

"For example, in the early stages of my first break-up with Alfie (when he had been sent to jail and came out and was living with a co-worker), I was completely obsessed with where he was, who he was seeing, what he was doing, and his personal ads. I inserted myself into his fake love life and warned his potential victims of his history. Some of them ran, one or two of them took him anyway and lived to regret it. During that time, I almost wrecked my car in a blizzard after discovering he was about to move to Texas into some woman's home who thought he was the cat's pajamas.

His ex wife and I thwarted that move, too." -Posted by loretta at July 17, 2005 10:12 AM

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I get a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that Loretta developed a rapport with Alfie’s ex-wife. Even more pronounced, is the overwhelming joy of recognizing Loretta's chivalry by allowing the "ex" to participate in her dedicated effort to keep Alfie on the straight and narrow. But familiarity doesn’t deposit food on the table nor does it put clothes on a child’s back. Since Mrs. Serrano openly admits that child support payments from the deserter are few and far between, I presume Loretta’s indigent status made a remarkable pecuniary turnaround between 1998 and 2000.

So now, the question is… where’s the bash blog dedicated to Edgar G. Serrano (Alfie)? What’s up with that oversight, Anne Curi? The dirty rotten scoundrel absolutely deserves his own tribute blog! You can bet a month's wages Loretta has a file on Alfie that covers the distance from Rocky River to Houston!

You interfere in the life of a man that’s been supporting his daughter for ten years? A man who remains faithful to prescribed visitation arrangements? You construct a spite blog to humiliate his domestic partner who accepted the responsibility of caring for the child on those visits for the last decade? Edgar Serrano isn’t a blip on your radar screen for abandoning his son? Are you serious?

What kind of a friend are you, Anne Curi? If you’re capable of breathing life into deceased relatives and publishing false accusations about people you don’t know including a concocted history about their family just because they criticize Lady Disdain, you can certainly throw something together about a real life Dead Beat Dad! Don’t forget to write about the Serrano family reunion... the one Alfie didn’t attend.

Anne from Brazil aka TruthTeller?

What a joke!