Thomas "Tommy" Carter is a plant scientist in North Carolina.
VOA: special.2009.03.23
The movement started around the time of the 1992 riots that followed the Rodney King verdict, when a previously wayward young man named Thomas Johnson reinvented himself as Tommy the Clown and established an institution called Tommy's Hip Hop Clown Academy.
Professor Andrew Shennan, consultant obstetrician at St Thomas' Hospital in London and spokesperson for baby charity Tommy's, said problems with bleeding in pregnancy were a daily occurrence for obstetricians.
The council do fund agency carers to come in to help them get Thomas up and ready in the morning on school days but that's not enough to allow Tommy to get back to work full-time as a plumber.