Tim's misconception
In the publicity
for his autobiography, Judge Tim Philpot promises to reveal a titillating “bombshell.”
This turns out to
be the revelation that the Judge’s mother was impregnated and abandoned by
another man prior to her marriage to the Judge’s alcoholic father. The baby
girl from this pregnancy was anonymously adopted in Cincinnati and could
hypothetically be one of many women appearing in his court.
During numerous
speeches, Judge Philpot describes his parent’s rocky marriage, attributed to
his abusive and alcoholic father cavorting abroad while his mother stayed home
for many years during the war. He describes his own medically “miraculous” conception
attributed to post-graduate celebrations (see video).
We all have baggage,
and it is unfair to punish children for the action of their parents. So, it’s all
the more puzzling why a family court judge describes out of wedlock children as
“bastard(s)” in a book he dedicates to the children in his court?
Needless to say, there
is enough in his book to keep a team of therapists busy for quite some time.
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