11.07 Russian Police Track Down

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MOSCOW, July 11 (RIA Novosti) � A Russian father has given police an "unprecedented" reason for not paying child support or alimony � he needed the money for a sex-change, Leningrad Region police said in a statement.

In this "unprecedented incident," the father had been on their wanted list for a number of years in connection with non-payment of child-support, the police statement said.

�He explained his failure to pay the debt as being due to physical incapacity in connection with