Posted on 03/22/2005 8:01:26 AM PST by tallhappy
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
January 27, 2000, Thursday, 2 Late Tampa Edition
SECTION: TAMPA & STATE; Pg. 3B
DISTRIBUTION: TAMPA & STATE
LENGTH: 581 words
HEADLINE: Husband offered to give up cash
BYLINE: ANITA KUMAR
BODY: But the parents of a woman in a coma refused to remove her feeding tube in return for the $ 700,000 gift to charity.
Michael Schiavo desperately wanted his comatose wife to die.
So much so that in October 1998 he told her parents he would donate to charity the $ 700,000 he stood to inherit upon her death, if only they would allow removal of her feeding tube.
Bob and Mary Schindler flat-out rejected the offer.
In court testimony this week, they said they would use any medical treatment necessary to keep their daughter Terri, 36, alive. No matter what.
Schiavo's attorney accuses the Schindlers of disregarding their daughter's wishes. Attorney George Felos says they are trying to keep Mrs. Schiavo alive because it brings them joy, even though she has been comatose for 10 years in what doctors call a "persistent vegetative state."
He described the Schindlers as a financially strapped couple who blame Schiavo for not monitoring his wife's health before she lapsed into a coma from an inexplicable loss of potassium.
Felos said the Schindlers are bitter that Schiavo did not share half of a $ 300,000 malpractice settlement he received and that he failed to repay them $ 12,000 for rent and moving expenses.
But Mrs. Schiavo's parents say their son-in-law is after as much as $ 700,000 ininheritance and that he is eager to marry his fiancee of four years. They say he aggressively pursued treatment for his wife for years after her 1990 accident until the couple received $ 1-million in the malpractice suit.
"He's having my daughter put to death to get her money. That burns me up," Schindler angrily testified before bursting into tears.
But testimony Wednesday revealed that in October 1998, Schiavo offered to donate the entire $ 700,000 to charity if the Schindlers agreed to remove their daughter's feeding tube, ensuring she would die in a couple of weeks.
"Unfortunately, the fact that the law makes Mr. Schiavo the recipient of his wife's estate, has been utilized to cast suspicion on his motives," Felos wrote in a letter to the Schindlers' attorney.. "My client has also repeated with frequency that (his wife's) well-being is his only concern."
The Schindlers' attorney, Pamela Campbell, said the offer was not genuine and that Schiavo made it knowing the Schindlers would reject it.
Mrs. Schiavo collapsed at her home the morning of Feb. 25, 1990. Her heart stopped beating and she was deprived of oxygen for five minutes. She has not awakened since.
The trial will resume in Pinellas County Circuit Court today, but it could be weeks or months before Judge George Greer decides about the feeding tube. He must first decide whether Mrs. Schiavo, who did not write a living will, would have wanted to prolong her life by artificial means.
Schiavo said his wife told him several times she would not want to be kept on life support.
His brother, Scott, and the wife of another brother also said Mrs. Schiavo told them the same thing in the years before the 1990 accident.
The Schindlers say they don't believe them and wonder why their son-in-law never mentioned those wishes until 1998, after she had spent eight years in a coma.
The Schindlers testified that their daughter never talked to them about whether she would want to be kept on life support.
But, they say, she supported placing her ailing grandmother on a ventilator and commented once while watching the news that s+meone should be kept alive as long as possible.
GRAPHIC: BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO; BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO, JONATHAN NEWTON; Michael Schiavo; Suzanne Carr, Terri Schiavo's sister, speaks during the trial Wednesday.
Schindlers once had nothing but praise for Michael and even wanted him to date again.
What in fact was written in the article you linked to was:
He said he hoped his son-in-law eventually would divorce his wife and start a new life.
You deliberately presented a false impression of what was reported.
You cannot weasel out of it.
Which part of this don't you get? He once had nothing but praise for Michael. Until money entered into the picture.
From the link I sent:
In some ways, Schiavo was treated as a son. He once brought a girlfriend home to meet the Schindlers, seeking their approval, and said they had encouraged him to date.
"I think I said he deserved to start a new life," Bob Schindler said in testimony in 1993.
He said he hoped his son-in-law eventually would divorce his wife and start a new life.
At the medical malpractice trial against doctors who treated Schiavo in 1992, Mary Schindler spoke with admiration about Schiavo's attentiveness to her disabled daughter.
"He's there every day," she said. "He is loving, caring. I don't know of any young boy that would be as attentive. ... He's just been unbelieveable. And I know without him there is no way I could have survived all this."
They wanted him to divorce her.
A very astute and wish.
Given the circumstances his divorcing and marrying another was the best chance to save their daughters life. He turned out to be a total low life and simply moved in with a second wife and began having children without divorcing her so that he could stil have control and would still legally be entitled to any and all financial compensation that might come.
Still. That is a separate issue. The issue was your overt and deliberate lie in number 7.
Why do you feel you need to lie about this to make your point? Is your position to kill her not strong enough to stand on its own?
What was the lie? They had nothing but praise for him for years.
I have nothing left to say to a freeper who is so obtuse.
Gee, in this Holy Week, it once only took "30 Pieces of Silver."
The Schindler's haven't proven anything, and neither have you for that fact, except that the Schindler's have been after the money from the get-go.
That was a serious and significant distortion.
That thye may have said plenty of nice things about him in an earlier time frame is not an issue. As far as that goes, Scott Peterson's in-laws didn't think poorly or him, especially when he was leading the search efforts to find the wife he had murdered.
Look, you want her to die. You her her killed. Fine. Just say it.
Total non-sequitar, but thanks for making clear where you stand.
According to law, Terri is Schiavo's wife. One can only have one spouse at a time.
Jodie Centonze is his concubine.
Just confirms you didn't bother reading the article Peach posted.
Schiavo doesn't have a common-law marriage with the Centonze trollop. They are living in adultery. One can only have one spouse at a time, and Schiavo and Terri are still married.
Another non-sequitar.
I quoted the article posted by peach.
Peach posted it. Now you and peach deny it.
I don't know, there's a screw loose in you guys somehwere.
Luckily for you lack of cognitive reasoning doesn't merit being starved to death.
Someone recently was convicted of polygamy who was only legally married to one person. It seems therefore one can be a bigamist or polygamist despite only being legally married to one person.
You can apologize to me later once you reach the end of the article. You know where to find me.
Schiavo denied making such promises.
The Valentine's Day argument erupted three months after the jury verdict. The Schindlers and Schiavo disagree on much of what was said.
Schiavo told lawyers that Bob Schindler entered the room and immediately asked about his share of the money.
Schiavo said he lied and told Schindler no one was getting any money because he had decided to funnel all of it into his wife's trust fund, where he couldn't get it.
According to Schiavo, Bob Schindler responded by pointing his finger at his daughter and saying, "How much money is she going to give me?"
In testimony, Schindler's account is different. He told the court that a few weeks before Valentine's Day, he had asked Schiavo if he remembered their "agreement" to share his part of the jury award. Schindler said Schiavo told him he'd get back to him on the matter, but never did.
Until Valentine's Day.
Schindler testified that he asked Schiavo: "Have you reconciled how we're going to settle this thing?"
When Schiavo told him that he planned to give all the money to the trust fund, Schindler said he responded: "Michael, you made an agreement with my wife and myself that you were going to share that money with us."
Schindler testified he also felt dissatisfied because he and his wife thought Schiavo was reneging on paying for continued therapy for their daughter.
The Schindlers said they thought Schiavo would buy a house where the Schindlers could stay with their daughter to care for her. They said he refused.
Within months, the Schindlers filed a challenge to replace Schiavo as their daughter's guardian, engaging a decade-long legal battle.
Try to say soemthing that is not disjointed and incoherent.
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