Posted on 01/20/2005 12:02:51 PM PST by kdwmson
By JIM McCAFFREY The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Villanova University — A renovated study space in the main library of Villanova University is being dedicated tomorrow to the memory of a woman who slashed her six-month old Down syndrome daughter’s throat — twice — and later killed herself.
Villanova’s director of public relations and communications defends the dedication as an act of “compassion.”
The vice president of the Board of Trustees, Herbert Aspbury, said he could not comment because the first he heard of the dedication was when he was contacted by this newspaper.
The woman who organized the memorial, Christine Filiberti, angrily refused to comment, hanging up abruptly.
Villanova University’s president, the Rev. Edmund Dobbin, did not return three phone calls asking for explanation or comment.
The ceremony is scheduled in the Falvey Memorial Library at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. This ceremony takes place less than a decade after John DuPont’s name was taken off the basketball pavilion on campus. More than a year of debate followed DuPont’s killing of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz before Villanova took the wealthy donor’s name off the athletic center. The court found DuPont mentally ill.
History Prof. Mine an Ener was a popular history professor who started the Middle East studies program at Villanova. In the summer of 2003, severely depressed after the birth and subsequent medical needs of her Down syndrome-afflicted daughter, Raya Donagi, she took the child to visit her parents in St. Paul, Minn.
About 9 a.m. on the morning of Monday, Aug. 5, by all police accounts severely depressed, she laid Raya down on the bathroom floor and slit the little girl’s throat twice with a 12” steak knife. Ener then left the bathroom and told her mother what she had done. She sat calmly and waited for police, her blood stained hands crossed in front of her chest.
The criminal complaint said Ener believed the baby’s situation was hopeless. She had just come off feeding tubes. She thought the little girl still wasn’t getting enough nutrition and was afraid she would have to go back on a feeding tube. The complaint said she did not want the child to have a life of suffering. Ener signed a formal confession Aug. 7.
Loathsome.
i wouldn't bet your money on this being anywhere near the truth.
They could find no other person worthy of naming the building after? Even Clinton would have been better.
They are undoubtedly honoring her for the *courage* to choose retro-active abortion as a "quality of life" issue in regard to her disabled child.
Sick. Sick. Sick.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
link?
It's a blue state. What did you expect.
They probably see it as just another belated late-term abortion.
It was a sad story, the woman later killed herself in prison. One of those instances where a person needed serious help but didn't know how to ask for it.
Sometimes, Catholic Universities honor people you'd never expect. Not long ago Seton Hall had as a guest speaker Maryanne Trump Barry. Barry is recognized as the author of the opinion that struck down New Jersey's partial-birth abortion law.
Too bad her baby can't smile any more.
www.history.villanova.edu/2004-Newsletter2.htm
St Ignatius Loyola is looking down from heaven, and he is not amused! How can they call themselves a Catholic university?
"Liberalism is a mental disorder."
I swear, I agree with this assessment more and more each day, as I watch with dumbfounding incredulity the absolutely lunatic shenanigans, acts, and opinions of the liberals of today.
And evil. And to think, we live among people who aren't sure if this act is immoral.
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