WEST PATERSON, N.J. -- He also carries the name Rubin Carter. He, too, has found himself jailed for a violent crime he insists he did not commit.

But there are no Hollywood movies or book tours for Raheem Rubin Carter.

Nor, he says, does his father -- a boxer-turned-convict-turned-celebrity -- seem to care about his situation.

"When is he going to come get me?" the 23-year-old Carter, sitting in a Paterson jail cell, said in the North Jersey Herald & News on Friday.

It's a helplessness that Raheem Carter thinks Rubin "Hurricane" Carter should understand.

The elder Carter in 1966 was found guilty of murdering three people in a Paterson bar. The decision outraged civil rights activists and many celebrities. They believed Carter was convicted because he is black and the three victims were white.

A federal judge overturned the verdict, and Carter walked out of Trenton State Prison.

Bob Dylan wrote a song about Carter's story, "The Hurricane." A movie of the same name starring Denzel Washington was released last week.

Hurricane Carter now collects $10,000 for each speaking appearance and runs a Toronto advocacy group called Association in Defense of the Wrongfully Accused. He is on a book tour that stopped in Philadelphia on Thursday night.

Raheem Carter is in Passaic County Jail, unable to raise $75,000 bail on charges he beat his girlfriend and caused her to miscarry their child in April. He says he hasn't seen his father in five years.

"I should be his first priority, don't you think?" the younger Carter said. "He's helping other people and not helping his family. My mother is paying my legal defense. My mother's doing it all. He's not doing anything."

John Latoracca, a Passaic County prosecutor, said Raheem Carter "kicked and stomped" the woman in the stomach while she was 11 weeks pregnant. She required surgery at St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center and lost the baby.

Raheem Carter denies assaulting the woman and being the father. His lawyer, Adolph Galluccio, called the woman "a troublemaker."

Hurricane Carter did not return phone messages left by the newspaper.

Mae Carter, Raheem's mother, had little to say about her ex-husband.

"He was just on television," she said, referring to a local New York station. "Why don't you ask him."