Posted on 09/01/2005 9:51:24 AM PDT by NYer
TAMPA BAY, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ten year-old Joshua Heldreth, the eldest of eight children, was arrested on Good Friday of this year for trespassing while attempting to bring a drink of water to Miss Terri Schaivo. Days later Schiavo died of intentional dehydration. In court Joshua pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and ordered to write an apology for his actions.
The boy whose arrest photo was splashed on front pages of newspapers across the nation wrote in his apology letter, "I was arrested on Good Friday for trespassing on the hospice center's property . . . Not giving Mrs. Shiavo (sic) food or water was wrong. The reason I had to go on your property was because Jesus would do the same thing. It made me sad that she was so thirsty and it made Jesus sad too. I knew she would die without water and I am called by Jesus to be a defender of the defenceless. So I had to go on your property to try to bring her a drink."
Joshua added, "I am sorry that you didn't like that and wouldn't allow me to help save her life and one day you will have to tell God why. I won't be able to help you then like I tried to help her. I will pray for you every day . . ."
LifeSiteNews.com caught up with Joshua's father Scott Heldreth today. Scott told LifeSiteNews.com he is very proud of his son. "My son has amazed me through this whole thing," said Heldreth. The proud father said it was his son's own initiative to attempt to give the starving woman a glass of water, and despite the warning of his parents that he'd be arrested, the boy insisted. "He was the one who begged us to go down, because he wanted to give her a glass of water . . . We explained that police will never let you help . . . you'll be arrested, but he went anyways."
Pro-life leader Rev. Flip Benham of Operation Save America told LifeSiteNews.com that the whole pro-life movement shares Heldreth's pride in his son. Benham recalls the reaction of Heldreth on Good Friday as he watched his son being arrested: "When that all took place Scott was weeping, this father was weeping tears of joy seeing his son not only talk the Christian talk but walk the walk."
While the apology letter has been submitted, Heldreth told LifeSiteNews.com he's not completely sure it will be accepted.
See Joshua's full handwritten apology letter here:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005_docs/JoshuaApolog...
He she it was too liberal for words.
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CO, fyi.
Good reason not to donate your organs - eliminate their source.
"It gives me hope"
Thanks Captain..he gave me hope too. He was brave and has a compassionate heart. I think of "And a child shall lead us"
Disgusting and barbaric! it's like a real life horror film. what we saw in the movie "The Island" is becoming reality soon.
FYI summary re: Scott Thomas
March 2002 – Scott marries Eliza.
Two years after marriage – Scott is often ill, and is hospitalized for up to two weeks at a time.
July 24, 2004 - Their son Logan is born.
September 5, 2004 – Scott suffers an unknown brain injury while home alone with his wife and son. Scott is taken to the ER at Memorial Hospital. He is taken into surgery and his brain is operated on. The surgeon indicates that the trauma to Scott’s head is not consistent with a standing fall. Scott’s injuries are deemed too severe to have occurred in that way. Scott lays in a coma for several weeks.
After about three weeks in the ICU, a second scan is requested by Scott’s mom – the scan comes back saying there is no damage to the brain stem.
October 18, 2004 - Scott is taken to Kindred Hospital.
October 27 and 28, 2004 – Eliza tells doctors she wants hospice to take Scott if he is not better in two weeks, but then on the 30th she talks with the doctors again about taking Scott to the hospice.
November 1, 2004 – Eliza talks again to doctors about sending him to a hospice.
November 11, 2004 – Scott’s mom, Pamela, is told that Scott will be taken to a hospice on or around the 12th. Pamela contacts an attorney and on the 12th Judge William Wilkes gives Pamela emergency guardianship.
November 23, 2004 – Pamela takes Scott home to her house to care for him.
January, 2005 – Pamela is given temporary plenary (complete) guardianship. She continues to work with him, preparing him for a time of rehabilitation at Brooks Rehab.
Late March, 2005 – Scott becomes an inpatient at Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital.
April, 2005 - Scott begins hyperbaric therapy with Dr. Murray.
Late May, 2005 – Scott is discharged from Brooks Rehab, continues hyperbaric, shows great improvement.
June 7, 2005 – Pamela takes Scott to Clearwater for a week with Dr. Hammesfahr, begins nitrogen cream treatment, magnesium injections.
July 18, 2005 – Temporary plenary guardianship is renewed and investigations continue to try to determine how Scott was injured.
As of August 9, 2005 – Scott is at home under the care and protection of his mother and day by day he continues to recover.
The next guardianship hearing is scheduled for sometime in January, 2006.
http://www.scottsfight.com/Timeline.htm
You're right. The younger generations do give us hope for a brighter tomorrow. They don't buy into the stupidity of the yuppy generation. Look how the young adults are volunteering to protect us and our way of life.
I'd be happy to donate my organs, after I'm dead. But not a moment sooner. When end-of-life care is altered to prepare organs for transplant, ownership of those organs already been transferred, away from the rightful owner who is still using them.
Jeb Jr.'s Texas DUI and he had a prior DUI in Florida that I didn't know about until today. Poor Jeb. (sarcasm tag) It's such a burden sometimes to be a parent, like the burden the State put on Terri's mom and dad. Terri was neglected and then tortured to death. Jeb Jr. will get community service of something special, nothing like Terri got.
Hi, friend. I'm bumping this thread while I watch Fox News Saturday. Why doesn't Fox have closed captioning on the weekend? I'm going to try to find out. I like to listen to music, mute the tv and read closed captioning.
By the way, China is sending skin from executed prisoners there to the Americas for skin transplants. I bet the MOSI Bodies Exhibit in Tampa is not taking in lots of cash now. Hurricane Katrina mitigated whatever curiosity with dead bodies there was out there. They even had a cocktail party over there for the body exhibit.
Why pay to see Chinese non-volunteer corpses in plastic who are exhibited without their prior consent who were probably murdered by China?
When life is devalued, it is the end of civilization as we know it. That's why I like to watch Fr. Frank Pavone on EWTN. He's a straight talking priest. He knows the score. Go, Frank.
Thanks for the nice background on Scott Thomas. Sounds maybe like she was poisoning him before she hit him over the head to me.
Living Wills give medical facilities room to make mistakes and then not be held accountable for them.
And then they want the organs for big dollars. Remember the movie Coma? Tom Selleck was suspended in mid-air. I think he was killed in that murder for his organs. That was a while ago.
Thank you for sharing your concerns about the Jessica Lunsford Act with Governor Bush. The Governor understands the concerns you and others have expressed and asked me to respond on his behalf.
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Sincerely,
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(FV says: I guess if it's not about Justice for Terri Schiavo, Jeb has someone answer his emails).
WOW, what a response! This is the first big response from Jeb's office I've seen on a Terri thread, but to bad it has nothing to do with Terri. What a pity we never saw more e-mails like this for Terri!
Looks like I'm off Jebbie's S#^+ list. It's about time.
I agree!
Punta Gorda author to write Michael Schiavo's side of story
Oh yea. I can hardly wait :'(
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It claims to be full of truth, so must mean Michael has seen the light, the error of his ways, and that murdering just isn't right.
Wonder where I will have to go to stand in line early to buy this tome... Maybe he will be autographing copies and will write something special in my copy, LOL.
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