Category Archives: Butler County Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA)

These posts relate specifically to the Butler County Ohio Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA) under the direction of Cynthia Brown, Director. “Child Support” enforcement in Butler County is well known to be the most corrupted throughout the State of Ohio; so much so, that it was noted in Stephen Baskerville’s book “Taken Into Custody: the War Against Fatherhood.” I strongly recommend that you read his book but caution you that the truths contained therein are extremely disturbing to such an extent that it will forever alter your “rose-colored” view of our Civil Judicial System. Reading that book changed me in ways that continue to affect me to this day.

As ashamed as I am to state this, my own brother James P. Fantetti was at one time a felony CSEA prosecutor for the Butler County CSEA. A career choice by him that not only troubles me, but confuses me as we grew up indigent and without a father ourselves. And as anyone familiar with the “child support” enforcement system knows, it’s indigent fathers who are harassed, demonized, abused, and incarcerated the most at the hands of the “child support” enforcement agencies.

Butler County is especially hateful towards mentally challenged and mentally ill fathers, and some of their CSEA case workers insist on nothing less than incarceration for these same fathers who in the worst economy since the Great Depression are unemployed through “no fault” of their own. Therefore, not only can they not afford to pay their “child support” obligations, nor can they afford their much needed psychotropic medications that enable them to leave semi-normal lives. So what’s Cynthia Brown’s Butler County CSEAs response to their indigency? “Incarcerate them.”

Please note that it’s rare that the aforementioned (or any Ohio father) can get their “child support” obligation lowered, and despite the horrendous current economic climate. In fact the State of Ohio recently attempted to statutorily raise “child support” obligations on all Ohio “child support” paying noncustodial parents. Why? Was it because it was said to be “in the best interests of the children?” Absolutely not. It was because it would have been in Ohio’s best financial interests as it would’ve added more money to Ohio’s coffers by raising the their Social Security Title IV D “Federal Incentive Match” profit.