The one “deadbeat mom” to make Virginia’s most-wanted list of child support evaders was arrested Thursday in Rockingham County for failure to pay more than $24,000 in outstanding payments for her two sons.
Wendy Marie Gentry’s case was laid out in The Examiner last week as the only woman featured on Virginia’s list of the nine most egregious deadbeat parents. She is also the first individual arrested from the list of noncustodial parents who owe a combined total of $523,605 in past-due support to their children.
The Examiner ran comments from her ex-husband, Kenneth Gentry, in a Monday cover story about how skipped child support payments affect the lives of children and custodial parents. Anonymous tips led authorities to Wendy Marie Gentry.
Her husband said if he ever received the money he and his sons are owed, he would put it towards a college fund for the two teenage boys, their motorcross equipment and a family vacation — “nowhere too fancy, but it’d be nice to go to Tennessee.”
