William E. Hardisty II walked out on his family in 1997. He stated that he "Didn't want to be a husband and father anymore." He didn't even bother calling his kids after he left to let them know that he cared anything for them. At the time his children were 7,5 and 2. When he left, he stole every penny in our joint bank account, stole my blind son's SSI check and stole $1500 from a retired couple down the road that he was supposed to use for materials for a deck.
Then after a year (in 1998) he called saying he was "sorry" and that he'd made "the worst mistake of his life. That time he managed to get the kids SSI numbers from me and had the nerve to claim them on his income taxes, by lying to the IRS by saying he was supporting them! At that time, he'd never even sent them a dime!
Next time we heard from him it was another year later, March of 1999. That time, after calling for a couple of months, insisting he was coming home and that he missed his family, I sent him $600 to help him "get things worked out so he could come home." You can't imagine how horrible I felt for my children when, once again, we never heard from him again after sending him money. After that the kids and I took a trip to Florida to see if there really was any sincerity in this con man.
Needless to say, after spending one day around him and seeing him for the low-live deadbeat he was, I took my children and left the area where he was living (Cocoa Beach) and I went immediately to the Melborne court house and asked why the warrant they had for him for felony abandonment and non-support was sitting on their desk, unserved. I was told they couldn't find him and I replied that it was a funny thing to me that I had only 2 days before driven over 12 hours, straight to his door and when I knocked, he answered! Needless to say, when I marched my kids in and said, "These are the children he committed the crime against, they FINALLY did their job and picked his sorry tail up. The result is that he got to spend the next 6 months in prison for the felony.
After that, I got my divorce from him and when he called the next time, telling me the "Worse day of his life was the day that he was served divorce papers." Even after all he'd done, he'd still try to con me into letting him use my kids to get back with me. But I didn't allow him to talk to my children anymore after those first 2 years of him calling and ripping their hearts apart like he did when he left, with them clinging to his legs begging him, "Daddy, PLEASE don't leave us!" Finally I wised up enough to see him for the totally self-absorbed pig he was.
This monster has no heart and it amazes me that any woman could be taken in by someone who owes so much back support. That in itself should be proof to anyone with even half a brain that anything he might be telling her is nothing but a bunch of lies. He only owed $241 a month for 3 kids because the courts based his payment on the fact that he said he couldn't find work. Yet he told me back during that first call that he was making $700 a week driving fares for the cruise lines.
He never did anything in 10 years of marriage but lie and cheat but the one thing I THOUGHT was that he loved his children. Now I know I was wrong on that account too. He loves no one but himself, even though he can play a pretty good game and sweet talk his way into hearts. Now he is remarried to a woman with 2 little children that he can play daddy with to fill his own selfish desire to feel needed. I'm sure he'll keep playing his game as long as she's the one working to support him.
I only hope he feeds her kids while she's at work, rather than sending them to their rooms while he eats all the food she's left for the family as he watches porn on the web. Of course, if he ever sees this, he'll make me out to be the bad guy and say I am lying, but let me ask you this, who's been the one that stuck with the family and pulled it together and who is the one that filed the divorce??? If I was such a bad person as he says, seems he'd be the one here raising the kids, huh? Yet, he hasn't laid eyes on them in 11 years, let alone care enough to feed and clothe them.
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