Everado Cervantes hasn’t made a child support payment since 1988. He owes his two children $85,736.

Cervantes is one of 12 people labeled as deadbeat parents on a new Illinois Web site.

To recover some of these debts, the Child Support Enforcement division of the Illinois Department of Public Aid introduced the site on Nov. 24 to push parents like Cervantes to pay up.

Since it began publishing offender information and photographs on the site, the state has recovered more than $37,000 for families, said Mike Claffey, public aid chief of communications.

“The purpose is to shame deadbeat parents into paying what they owe for the upbringing of their children,” Claffey said.

To be featured on the site, a parent must owe at least $5,000 and be 90 days delinquent.

Gina Fletcher, last known to live in Tennessee, owes $36,000. Richard King of Chicago owes his three children $50,733.

“We started off with some of the worst cases on the books and are now evaluating new cases to add to the site based on many requests we have received since the site was launched,” Claffey said.

Photographs of eight of the 12 parents are included with date of birth, race, sex, height, weight, hair and eye color, amount owed, date of last payment received, last known address and number of children.

Parents are given a 90-day warning period before their names and photos are posted, Claffey said.

Kim O’Neal, a single mother of three from St. Charles, said she wishes the Web site was available 10 years ago, when her ex-husband neglected to pay $80 to $125 a week for child support payments.

Even if his picture was posted on the Web site, O’Neal said she doesn’t think it would have made her ex-husband embarrassed or guilty enough to pay.

“But I definitely would’ve used it in the past,” she said.

Unlike O’Neal, Shameka Hill, a senior media studies major, wouldn’t try to use the site. Hill also is a single mother, but has decided not to collect child support from her daughter’s father.

She said she thinks the site would embarrass the father of her child as well as her daughter. Because she said she doesn’t feel it’s right to judge those on the site, she wouldn’t put his name and information on the site for people to judge him – even if he owed her child support, she said.

Having their faces on the Internet will not change their views on paying child support, Hill said.

“If they’re going to pay, they’re going to pay,” Hill said. “If they’re not, they’re not.”

California resident Anthony Bezroukoff sent in $19,000 he owed in child support about two weeks after his picture appeared on the site, Claffey said.