MICHAEL SCHIAVO DEFYING COURT ORDERS
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The parents and siblings of Terri Schiavo said Michael Schiavo is keeping them in the dark about where her remains will be laid to rest.
Associated Press
Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings said Friday that they still have not been told where the brain-damaged woman's remains will be laid to rest.
Appearing on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes on Friday night, Bob and Mary Schindler, their son Bobby and daughter Suzanne Vitadamo said Terri Schiavo's husband is keeping her remains from them.
''They were supposed to tell us, and we still have not heard from . . . Michael Schiavo where Terri's been laid,'' Bobby Schindler said. ``Our family expected this. Michael has disobeyed court orders throughout the ordeal and continues to do so today.''
The Schindlers have held four memorial services for their daughter.
LEGALLY OBLIGATED
Michael Schiavo is under court order to notify the Schindlers of his plans for a memorial service. He had his wife cremated, and said her ashes would be buried at a family plot in Pennsylvania.
George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney, did not return a call Friday night.
Terri Schiavo, 41, died March 31 in a Pinellas Park hospice, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order. She suffered brain damage in 1990 after a chemical imbalance caused her heart to stop.
She left no written instructions in the event she became disabled, and her husband said he never would have wanted to be kept alive in what court-appointed doctors called a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery.
The Schindlers, however, doubted she had any such end-of-life wishes. They maintained she would benefit from rehabilitation, despite most doctors saying her condition was irreversible.
Federal and state courts repeatedly rejected attempts by Florida lawmakers, Gov. Jeb Bush, Congress and President Bush to intervene on behalf of her parents.
`DISAPPOINTED'
Bob Schindler, Terri's father, said he was angry that lawmakers did not do more to help his daughter.
''I'm disappointed in Governor Bush,'' he said. ``My goodness, the system is just atrocious.''
During a seven-year legal battle, the Schindlers sought independent investigation of their daughter's condition and what caused it. Abuse complaints to state social workers were ruled unfounded.
About 40 judges in six courts were involved in the case at one point or another. Six times, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene.
As Schiavo faded, Congress rushed through a bill to allow the federal courts to take up the case, and President Bush signed it March 21. But the federal courts refused to step in.
Her autopsy results are pending.
Michael once again publicly reveals what a sadistic lowlife he is.
The Schindlers are a wonderful family. Terri was lucky to have them. I love how they didn't go into bashing our leaders, but yet said simple kind words like dissapointed. I have said worse and it humble's me to hear them say such words with a loving Christian heart. God Forgive me for the things I have said and thought. Help me to be more like the Schindler's. What grace they presented in the interview with Sean. It has truly touched me.
How on God's green earth is it possible nearly 6 weeks after Terri's poor body was cremated, that her family STILL does NOT know where she is buried...?
And they sent Gov Bush to represent US at the new Pope's installation. That must have made the Schindler's - devout Catholics - EVEN MORE HEARTSICK!!