Wednesday, January 26, 2000
Ex-Red indicted in deadbeat-dad case
Kal Daniels two years behind in payments
BY DAN HORN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Former Cincinnati Reds outfielder Kal Daniels was indicted Tuesday on charges of failing to pay child support for his son. A warrant was issued for his arrest.
Prosecutors say Mr. Daniels, whose baseball contracts once topped $2 million a year, owes his 8-year-old son $54,800.
They say the retired player has not made a support payment in more than two years.
Mr. Daniels' indictment comes just two months after former Bengals running back James Brooks pleaded guilty to charges of failing to pay more than $110,000 to support two of his children.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen said the indictments don't mean his office is targeting professional athletes for non-support charges.
But he said he doesn't mind if the charges against Mr. Brooks and Mr. Daniels draw more attention to the issue of unpaid child support.
“When the defendant is high-profile, it does help deliver the message that this is serious,” Mr. Allen said. “If (Mr. Daniels) helps deliver that message, so be it.”
He said Mr. Daniels had the child with a former girlfriend who now lives in Loveland.
Records show that Mr. Daniels made regular child support payments from his son's birth in 1991 until August 1997. At that time, prosecutors say, Mr. Daniels ap parently was granted a reduction in his monthly payments from $3,000 to $1,195.
Despite the reduction, Mr. Allen said, Mr. Daniels made no payments after August 1997.
“It looked for awhile like he was doing the right thing,” Mr. Allen said. “Then, for whatever reason, he just fell off the face of the Earth.”
He said Mr. Daniels, 36, most recently worked for a bank in Virginia. His last known address is in Warner Robbins, Ga. — coincidentally the same town where Mr. Brooks lived for several years.
Mr. Allen said police are not sure where Mr. Daniels is living now.
Prosecutors say child support records show that Mr. Daniels earned $4.5 million during the last two years of his baseball career.
He faces one felony charge of failure to pay child support, which carries a maximum penalty of up to one year in jail.
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