When it came time for an estranged father to make his final child support payment, he chose a less-than-gracious approach. Instead of choosing cash or a check to pay his ex-wife the $800 he owed, he instead chose to dump a bunch of pennies onto the front lawn of her Virginia home. He emptied a total of 80,000 pennies into the yard using a rented trailer. His daughter, 18-year-old Avery Sanford, chose to turn the situation around from a clearly negative experience to one that will have a positive impact.
A Virginia dad dumped 80,000 pennies outside his 18-year-old daughter’s home and told her mom it was his final child support payment — but Avery Sanford and her mom decided to turn a negative situation into positive action. | https://t.co/PsSzzHwft6pic.twitter.com/2mS8sk3p28
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Sanford, a senior at Deep Run High School, was in class when her father arrived with the unconventional child support payment. While she was not around to witness her dad dumping the pennies, her mother was. Speaking to WTVR she said, “He pulled up in front of the house and turned the trailer on so it dumped out all the pennies on the grass and my mom came out and was like, ‘What are you dumping in my yard?'” Sanford added, “She didn’t know who it was until he shouted, ‘It’s your final child support payment.'”
Her father’s cruel stunt deeply affected Sanford. “It’s not just my mom he’s trying to embarrass, it’s also me and my sister and it’s upsetting that he didn’t consider that before he did that,” she said. After the arduous task of picking out the pennies, Sanford and her mom decided to turn the bad situation into a good and positive one. They concluded that donating the final child support payment, delivered in such a manner, was the best response. They donated the $800 to Safe Harbor, a center that “supports those who are experiencing or have experienced domestic violence, sexual violence, or human trafficking.”…