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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[68 grunt]

Its a giant conspiracy, EVie, everybody is in on it, except the whacky fringe. After all, only they know what the constitution means.

[joesbucks]

I saw a couple of the "culture of life" lawyers say they had poor representation on many issues. I wonder if maybe they were difficult to work with or if their involvement with some of the fringes such as Randall Terry made some of the more legit "culture of life" expert lawyers either stay away or be forced away by the Schindlers or the folks they got in bed with to promote this.

[EternalVigilance]

You think the middleground America is going to support whack fringe elements?

What? You mean the whack fringe element that thinks it's just peachy for the government to whack women who haven't been convicted of any crime?

[presently no screen name]

Notice your responses - it is gibberish. Life Xfiles, cancer man bribes the hospice worker, Trilateral, pet rocks or others just mock and criticize. Like you said, they don't have a leg to stand on. Basically, if that is their stance, how could they defend it? It's the law or you are a kook. That's the best they can do. Their mindset is something not to be desired.

Truth will come out - it may take years and when it does some will crawl under their pet rocks and some still will be too blinded to see it. They will think it's a conspiracy.

[68 grunt]

... You did no such thing.

Wanna bet? Unless you managed to get the thread deleted it should be easy to bring up. You remember the one, where I again laid my charges that you were either a planted disruptor or an incredibly counterproductive whack.

[EllaMinnow]

So you can't answer the questions I asked.

[MHGinTN]

Didn't take long for the hateful ones to surface spittling out their bile ... see post #74, up is down, wrong is right, left is right ... they are now predictable at least.

[EllaMinnow]

I saw a couple of the "culture of life" lawyers say they had poor representation on many issues. I wonder if maybe they were difficult to work with or if their involvement with some of the fringes such as Randall Terry made some of the more legit "culture of life" expert lawyers either stay away or be forced away by the Schindlers or the folks they got in bed with to promote this.

That's what I think. I'm just curious whether they never volunteered to help or if they volunteered and were rebuffed.

[EternalVigilance]

Take notice:

The talking points of the political hacks are clear for all to see from this and other threads.

"Do everything in your power to marginalize supporters of Terri Schiavo and the Schindler family by painting them as out-of-the-mainstream 'whackjobs' and 'nuts'."

Much will be lost if pro-lifers let them get away with this.

Perhaps everything...

[EternalVigilance]

Yep.

[PFKEY]

Then explain to me how her death was lawful in the context of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That should be quite interesting as well.

The best way I can explain it is to ask you who is or has been brought up on charges of murder?

The answer is no one.

So my response is the same in that the law allows for her death or murder.

[KDD]

You ask some stupid questions and make a lot of ignorant statements. You can't even see the damage you do to conservatism by wrapping your own little brand of fanatic religious dogma around it.

Don't bother addressing me.

Preach your sermon to someone else.

[maica]

I looked in an old college Ethics book today out of curiosity. It was written between 1929 and 1931 as a series of lectures at Boston College. Long before bio-ethics became a word.

Even back then there was a clear argument against suicide and the destruction of "useless members of society." Both of these items were discussed together referring to the principle that our life on earth is not an end to itself but "for perfect happiness...to be attained in the future life."

"As for incurables and the feeble-minded, surely the example of heroic patience and fortitude manifested by the former, and the equally heroic patience and self-sacrifice and devotion of those who spend their lives in the care of the latter, are examples of virtues of which the effeminate society of the present time stands sorely in need"---Special Ethics, Joseph F Sullivan, SJ, page 36 [NB: Society was already being called "effeminate" in 1930

Poor Terri was both incurable and feeble-minded, but her death should not have come at the time of a judge's choosing, but of God's choosing.

[joesbucks]

I think it's a very convoluted yes to all those and more.

[rdcorso]

I would have more respect for those who agree with Terri's killing if they would admit that money changed the husband.He claimed she would live 52 years in the lawsuit and then worked feverishly to kill her when he won.

[68 grunt]

... "Do everything in your power to marginalize supporters of Terri Schiavo and the Schindler family by painting them as out-of-the-mainstream 'whackjobs' and 'nuts'." ...

Why? The 'whackjob' element of the supporters of TS and the Schindler family marginalize themselves, and woefully, they're bringing us down with them.

[Howlin]

LOL!

[joesbucks]

I will admit that money may have infuenced Michael. Now will you admit that this may have been Terri's wish.

[Howlin]

Yep, the State the judges the lawyers, hospice the police, nurses, doctors.

Don't forget you and me and all the rest of us who don't believe the conspiracy theories.

We're a *part* of it, too!

[68 grunt]

Brilliant touche.