How could he try to isolate her from her family when they lived with her family the whole time they were married. Including when she collapsed and he continued to live with them for three more years. Also I beleive they would have know if there was abuse in their home, but maybe not. I know if my daughter and her husband had lived with me for three years after they were married, I would have know if there was abuse and stopped it.
How could he try to isolate her from her family when they lived with her family the whole time they were married. Including when she collapsed and he continued to live with them for three more years. Also I beleive they would have know if there was abuse in their home, but maybe not. I know if my daughter and her husband had lived with me for three years after they were married, I would have know if there was abuse and stopped it.
But you are wrong. They did not live with her parents the whole time that they were married. They lived by themselves when they first moved to Florida and they had to stay with Terri's parents for a time because Michael was unemployed and they could not survive on one income.
No one said that the abuse was ongoing. However, there is evidence, provided by Terri's co-worker, that when the Schiavos were living in an apartment, (and not with her parents) that Michael was being abusive and that she often came to work with bruises. This co-worker also reported that Michael used to check the odometer of Terri's car and would get abusive if he thought that she was spending too much money.
People seemed to be confused about the nature of abuse. There is more than just physical abuse. It is mental abuse that causes most of the scarring to a person who has been abused. This is the kind of abuse that Michael had inflicted upon Terri prior to the incident in February 1990.
I have noted that a lot of what Michael Schiavo says does not stack up all that well in the credibility stakes. He has been lying about a lot of the facts of this case. It is true that he hid medical documents from her parents. They had to get the court to approve the release of those documents. That is how they found out about the bone scan results. Until 2002 they did not know of the existence of that bone scan report. A lot of information remained hidden in this case. That is why Michael Schiavo in my eyes continues to lack any form of credibility.
To this I will add that he claimed under oath that Terri's mother told him to put down her cats, but that was a blatant lie. The vet who euthanaised the cats stated that it was Michael alone who insisted that they be put down. This happened at the time he was dating Cindy Brasher and prior to the finalisation of the malpractice lawsuit.