I’ve heard stories of parents molesting their own children. I’ve heard of parents “renting” their own children out for prostitution. I’m aware of parents who give their own children drugs and alcohol. So I really should not be surprised that there are parents out here who are cruel enough to steal their own children’s identity, thus ruining their children’s good name and credit.

On paper, Randy Waldron Jr. was $2.5 million in debt and a convicted felon. He owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to credit card companies, owed back taxes to the state of Florida, and had liens and civil actions against him.

In reality, Waldron was a 17-year-old high school junior living in New Hampshire, who in 1998 couldn’t get a student loan for college or a credit card because his Social Security number had been stolen when he was just 1 year old. Making matters worse, the man who stole Waldron’s identity was his father.   Source

When a person rips off their own child and destroys their own child’s reputation and future for selfish reasons, you have to wonder about the humanity of a parent who would do such a thing. It is beyond reasoning.

Children are often the victims of identity thieves because their credit and backgrounds are clean, Social Security numbers are not linked to their owners’ names or ages, and victims typically won’t realize there is problem for many years, said Linda Foley, founder of the Identity Theft Resource Center. Source

Well, I say that parents who engage in such awful crimes against their own flesh and blood need to be put under the jail.