TV investigative journalist Nuria Piera has shared with her viewers the plight of the mother of a four-year old boy, fathered by 81-year old Superintendence of Insurance Euclides Gutierrez, as a call for more regular child support payments. A DNA test a year and a half ago proved Gutierrez was the father, after which Gutierrez assumed child support responsibilities.
A report in El Nuevo Diario reviewed documents that show Gutierrez has contributed to the maintenance of the child with eight checks ranging from RD$95,000 to RD$60,000 paid in 2017.
Venus Marielle Almonte Miranda says the cost of care for the child is expensive because he was born with microcephalia and is autistic. She also is protested a legal effort by Gutierrez to obtain the custody of the child. The baby was born when Almonte was 21 and Gutierrez 78 years old.
Gutierrez has been Superintendent of Insurance since 2012. Piera says he receives a monthly salary of RD$800,000 in the position.
Gutierrez in the past made headlines when he accumulated arrears for power usage at his home for RD$3 million with the power distribution company and refused to pay the debt when Celso Marranzini was the administrator of the CDEEE. After the case went public, he would reach a payment agreement with the power company.
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El Nuevo Diario
22 January 2018
