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Football legend Lawrence Taylor, who was caught last year with his pants down in a scandal that involved the solicitation of a 16-year-old, prostitution and third-degree rape charges is now reportedly asking to have his child support payments lowered for one of his children.
Taylor claims he simply cannot afford the child support payment of $456 for his 13-year-old chronically ill daughter Erielle, whom by the way, he has never met.
The former New York Giants Hall of Famer appeared in a New Jersey Family Court Friday to tell the judge that he can barely meet the support demand that is in place now and an increase is just out of the question:
"My income is generated solely by my popularity as a celebrity," he says in the Bergen County filing. "The fact that I last played in 1993 and legal problems in Rockland County . . . have severely diminished my ability to obtain income. I have no college degree or special skills other than athletics," he notes.
The child's mother, Ebony Washington, is seeking to raise his child support payments.
According to Washington, since Erielle's birth, Taylor hasn't bothered to visit her and he's let the child's medical insurance lapse. Erielle has Crohn's disease, which causes inflammation of the digestive tract. Since their daughter has to remain under a physician's watchful eye for her debilitating condition, health insurance is a dire necessity.