Posted on 04/01/2005 3:20:43 PM PST by Alissa
Summaries of state Department of Children & Families investigations into the treatment Terri Schiavo cannot be released to the media, a judge ruled Friday.
Ruling the day after Schiavo died, Circuit Judge George Greer denied a request from the St. Petersburg Times to obtain summaries of dozens of investigations into complaints that Schiavo was being mistreated. None of the allegations were substantiated.
The death of Schiavo, 41, ended a gut-wrenching court battle between her husband, Michael Schiavo, and parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, over whether she would have wanted to live in a persistent vegetative state.
Greer ruled the records belong to DCF, and although her husband can have access to them the records cannot be distributed publicly. The agency did not want the records released, saying it would hamper an ongoing investigation.
A separate, similar motion filed by Media General, parent company of The Tampa Tribune, is scheduled for Monday.
The repeated allegations of abuse were based partly on bone scans showing Terri Schiavo suffered fractures and statements she made to family and friends that she was unhappy in her marriage. Michael Schiavo has denied harming his wife and his lawyer said bone fractures resulted from osteoporosis caused by the woman's years of immobility and complications of her medication.
Looks like a CYA move.
Pinellas County seems ripe for an investigation.
How can he order records other than court records sealed? And why?
They can't, JudgenFuhrer Greer sprach "Nein"!
Didn't you get the memo?
Because he's GOD.
Can we hold off on the nuke until my Mom moves out?
"The agency did not want the records released, saying it would hamper an ongoing investigation."
Did I miss something? What "ongoing investigation" and if it isn't of the criminal persuasion, then why on earth would they not want these records released. That is, unless they have something to hide.
They have to stall until the Statute of Limitations takes effect -- then they don't have to bother prosecuting Slicko.
So the records did belong with DCF and they have control of them. I can't tell you how many people told me that DCF didn't have her records and they found that suspicious.
Yet another urban legend debunked.
But DCF is one of the "good guys"
Pinellas County Medical Examiner:
" Wow. This was so easy. I kept Dr. Cyril H. Wecht away from the post
and simply used Terri's official Pinellas County Autopsy report
which Judge Greer gave me last week.
Let me assure you that Judge Greer's report
which was written BEFORE he began shredding the records
says absolutely positively nothing about abuse.
Everything was normal. AOK. Honest."
(Just don't let the Scientologists find out about the uke-nay.)
They're over on the autopsy thread weaving the poor ME into The Conspiracy. If you want to know what the autopsy report is going to say, you can go over there and read it. A regular bunch of Quincy's we have here on FR.
And if the report comes out and agrees with the Quincy's on FR you will acknowledge that won't you?
Call me a skeptic....but I don't think Florida's DCF folks are all that competent to begin with. If foster children can disappear....I'm sure losing some records is easy peasy.
translation = MSM in bidding war
I can guarantee you the report will not say what the Quincy's want it to say. The ME is a professional and will not jump to the wild conclusions that have been jumped to by the Quincy's.
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