DCF: Terri Schiavo Not Abused, Exploited

ABC/AP ^ | 4.16.05

[ambrose]

DCF: Terri Schiavo Not Abused, Exploited

State Agency: Terri Schiavo Was Not Abused or Exploited by Either Side of Her Family

By VICKIE CHACHERE

The Associated Press

Apr. 16, 2005 - State investigators found no evidence that Terri Schiavo had been abused or exploited by either side of her family, according to documents released by Florida's Department of Children and Families.

The agency investigated 89 complaints dating back to 2001, when Schiavo's feeding tube was removed for the first time and the legal battle surrounding her right-to-die case intensified.

The calls alleged that the brain-damaged woman was being mistreated by her husband and her parents for financial gain. One complaint alleged that Schiavo's parents were selling videos of her through a Web site; another said Schiavo's husband wasn't spending money intended for her rehabilitation.

But investigators said they found no evidence that either her husband or parents were exploiting her, and often noted in their records that they found Schiavo well cared for on their visits to her Pinellas Park hospice.

The agency released the records Friday under court order.

Schiavo, 41, died last month after her feeding tube was removed for the third time, ending a bitter court battle between her husband, Michael Schiavo, and parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, over whether she would have wanted to live in a vegetative state.

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.

Schiavo's husband has denied harming his wife. His lawyer said the fractures resulted from osteoporosis caused by the woman's years of immobility and complications of her medication.

Robert Schindler declined to comment there on the release of the DCF documents. An attorney for Michael Schiavo did not immediately return calls.

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[cyncooper]

presently no screen name
Since Mar 23, 2005

[Peach]

My, my. I see we have some lovely new members joining here to stir up more dissent.

Why does the phrase "paid opinion shapers" come to mind? And why do I think it's all an effort to undermine FR? Inquiring minds want to know. LOL

[bvw]

Insulin.

[Twinkie]

Yes, of course, it was the SCHINDLER'S fault that Terri had to suffer Mikey, Felos and Greer forbidding her mouth and tongue so much as being moistened with a wet cloth. If not for the SCHINDLERS, Terri could have been hidden from the poor sensitive public for the DAYS she lay there with a parched mouth, throat and tongue. It would have all been over with, all nice and tidy, years ago - and we all could have passed by hurriedly on the other side of the street in our busy and normal lives on our way to Mickey D's for a big mac, coke and fries. . if not for those damn SCHINDLERS!

[sirthomasthemore]

"are you a judge?"

Probably not. Suspect that most of the Death Mongers are men who hate their wives and don't want to be foreclosed from the OJ Shiavo solution- "she told me that she wanted to by dehydrated as soon as possible, now when will the B______ die?"

[cyncooper]

sirthomasthemore
Since Apr 9, 2005

[joesbucks]

But if the train is stained with peripherals that are meaningless or even tainted, then the bride is then meaningless and tainted too.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

Drinking 15 glasses of fluid a day.

Although I have read here that tea actually helps give you potassium. I find that interesting since I can't eat bananas, another source of potassium.

Too much fluid would give electrolyte abnormalities but I'm not saying that's what caused Terri's original "incident". No one knows for sure and there is evidence of other causes.

[Miss Behave]

"The whole outcome was based on hearsay."

EXACTLY. There was NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING in writing. The ONLY MORAL thing to do in such a case is to ERR on the side of LIFE. It's the difference between RIGHT and WRONG.

She was put to very slow, horrific, painful, INHUMANE death by court ordered STARVATION on very fuzzy, self-contadicting, SEVEN-years-after-the-fact-and-monies-banked, HEARSAY.

And she wasn't even afforded the same (Congress dictated de novo,) very basic consideration of a person convicted of CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

There was NOTHING in writing. Putting her to death was WRONG. Terri's *wishes* were HEARSAY. PERIOD.

[joesbucks]

Firstly, neither you nor I know how she acheived the weight loss on a daily basis. Since I don't know her bone structure, height and so forth, we can't make an informed decision if 110 lbs is an ideal weight. Additionally, we don't know the measures she took to achieve and or maintain that weight. And, many who have family memebers who have anorexia or bulemia do not recognize the problem until too late. They only notice the dramatic and sometimes welcome weight loss.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

"Causes of Low Potassium (Hypokalemia)

Nutritional: poor intake, IV fluids low in Potassium, anorexia, high CBH diet."

Back then, we were hearing about high carbohydate diets to lose weight. Pastas and such.

[sirthomasthemore]

"sirthomasthemore
Since Apr 9, 2005"

THAT'S RIGHT! AND PROUD OF IT! What's your point.

[joesbucks]

There are many matters that the contemporary church including the Catholic church skate around and though scripture. One of the arguments is that the next pontiff should be more liberal that John Paul II and conservative freepers have been against that liberalization. Churches need to cautious as to what they cast to the win to maintain themeselves to the secular world.

A devout catholic would not in the realm of the church entertain unless it was for scriptural matters.

[joesbucks]

For sake of argument, prior to feeding tubes, what would have become of Ms. Schiavo? She would have dehydrated and starved as so many here put it. What would be the terminology used then to comfort the family?

[joesbucks]

You see, none of know anything but IFLAND. Neither you, nor I and in some aspects, even Terri's family.

[bvw]

This bride is Sophia Loren at her best, or whoever the sweetest, most inviting apple of your eye ever was. Stained, and tainted -- still Sophia the Desired.

[joesbucks]

No, she was allowed to die. She was allowed to finish the process of meeting her maker and having lifes judgement evaluated. Period. God will ultimately decide the fate of her soul and how to deal with those involved if their involvement was contrary to His wishes. Period.

[whenigettime]

Terri was alive and well enough for her parents to take her home, even if she could not recover, who cares? The pro-euthanists go on and on about how one's life must be "productive". It does not matter to me wether a person ever even regains consciousness, we are not to be killing for the sake of another's ease. We all will eventually die - why hasten if?