Dauphin County District Attorney Edward M. Marsico Jr. says his office will not be filing criminal charges in a mix-up that landed a Philadelphia man in jail four times for not paying child support for someone else's child. Marsico said his investigation, ordered by President Judge Richard A. Lewis

after The Patriot-News reported on the situation

, revealed that a "screw up" occurred in Montgomery County, but did not involve any criminal intent.

That mistake left Walter Andre Sharpe Jr. of Philadelphia forced to pay $12,000 in support for another man's child and thrown in Dauphin County Prison four times for not keeping up with the payments.

It took The Patriot-News less than a hour to find the real father, who said he had custody of the child Sharpe had been supporting. Sharpe was paying support to the child's mother and then her grandmother.