Mar 2, 2007 • 1 min read

Bobby Brown freed after radio station settles child support debts

Bobby Brown has been released from jail after Washington station Hot 99.5 FM paid his $19,000 child support debt in return for radio appearances.

So Bobby Brown is out of jail after three days, after a radio station stumped up the $19,000 he owes in late child support and court costs, payment of which had become conditional for his release. As previously reported, Brown was arrested last weekend following his latest failure to meet child support obligations to Kim Ward, the mother of his two teenage children. Brown's lawyer said his failure to pay was not down to unwillingness, but because the sums he was expected to supply Ward with were beyond his means now his musical career was less successful. Nevertheless lawyer Pheadra Parks pledged to find the money earlier this week, and in the end it was secured off Washington station Hot 99.5 FM who agreed to pay the debts in return for a commitment by Brown to appear on a week of programming on the radio station, including giving a candid interview about his life and, presumably, his current divorce from Whitney Houston. No word from Parks on whether Brown will now endeavour to cut his child support commitments to avoid future missed payments and resulting jail time.

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