Posted on 03/11/2005 9:57:53 AM PST by longhaired_christian
Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A California businessman has offered Terri Schiavo's estranged husband $1 million to not starve her to death and to transfer legal guardianship for her to Terri's family.
Robert Herring, Sr., lives in San Diego and is the founder of WEALTHTV, a lifestyle and entertainment television channel. He also spent more than 30 years in the electronics industry as the founder and owner of HERCO Technology, which he later sold to a larger firm.
Herring contacted infamous attorney Gloria Allred to pay Michael Schiavo $1 million if he complies with Herring's request.
"After viewing video of Terri on television, I came to the belief that there was hope for her," Herring said in a statement Thursday. "As events have proceeded in the legal battle, it became clear to me that if something was not done for Terri, that all hope for her would be lost."
The money has been placed in a a trust account operated by Allred on Wednesday and the attorney sent a letter to Michael Thursday morning comunicating the offer.
There is no word on whether Michael will accept the offer. Should he do so, courts will still need to sign off on changing legal guardian ship for Terri.
Herring said he acted now because he is worried that Florida courts will not turn back on their decision to allow Michael to starve Terri to death next week.
"With a date of March 18th quickly approaching, and no other viable hope for Terri to be able to keep her feeding tube, I felt compelled to act," he said.
Allred confirmed Herring's rationale.
"It now appears that the court process is ending, and that the legislative process has failed to stop the removal of the feeding tube," she said.
"He recognizes that unless something is done immediately, Terri Schiavo is not likely to survive very long," Allred added. "Knowing that time is of the essence and realizing that he is fortunate enough to be able to help, he has decided to take action.".
Allred was the attorney for Amber Frey in the infamous Scott Peterson trial. Frey had an affair with Scott during the time he killed Laci and Conner Peterson.
"find a court system to give you permission to kill her"
If this FloriDUH court isn't helpful, perhaps the SF 9th Circus Ct would be amenable....
A human life for a million? The guy is an absolute scumbag. Retch!!
Wow, that's a loaded question!
Even worse, I truly believe he is hoping to cover up some wrong doing.
Sheer crap...he's been offered money before. If he wanted her dead, why did he try every therapy the first five years? And if you know something concrete, like you say you do, then you should go to the police and tell them your evidence. If you don't, you should keep your mouth shut instead accusing a man of attempted murder.
Unfortunately for Schiavo (and thus, for Terri), no amount of money can ensure her continued silence.
Therefore, Schiavo will continue his quest to starve her to death (I hope I'm wrong).
Aaaaw.
Considering he claims she's PVS, he seems very afraid she'll recover and spill the beans.
For a rough and rowdy, troll chasing, ZOT paving, lunatic redneck, I can get pretty mushy.
You're a paragon :-).
Wow! You both are truly blessed!!
I hadn't heard this....can you point me to reports of it?
> she'll recover and spill the beans.
Massively unlikely. Even if she does wake up, she's brain damaged. Even if she somehow bypasses *that* and becomes lucid, she's been outside of reality for *years*; nothing she says should be taken particularly seriously by the courts.
I know that, and you know that, but IMHO Michael is still afraid.
Ping!!!!!!
My my, aren't we well informed?? and nasty too.
I'm an unflawed diamond of at least 100 carats? Gee thanks. I guess? ; )
I think nasty is against the rules, civility is appreciated.
I hope she feels that way about me too.
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