Posted on 09/01/2005 9:51:24 AM PDT by NYer
TAMPA BAY, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ten year-old Joshua Heldreth, the eldest of eight children, was arrested on Good Friday of this year for trespassing while attempting to bring a drink of water to Miss Terri Schaivo. Days later Schiavo died of intentional dehydration. In court Joshua pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and ordered to write an apology for his actions.
The boy whose arrest photo was splashed on front pages of newspapers across the nation wrote in his apology letter, "I was arrested on Good Friday for trespassing on the hospice center's property . . . Not giving Mrs. Shiavo (sic) food or water was wrong. The reason I had to go on your property was because Jesus would do the same thing. It made me sad that she was so thirsty and it made Jesus sad too. I knew she would die without water and I am called by Jesus to be a defender of the defenceless. So I had to go on your property to try to bring her a drink."
Joshua added, "I am sorry that you didn't like that and wouldn't allow me to help save her life and one day you will have to tell God why. I won't be able to help you then like I tried to help her. I will pray for you every day . . ."
LifeSiteNews.com caught up with Joshua's father Scott Heldreth today. Scott told LifeSiteNews.com he is very proud of his son. "My son has amazed me through this whole thing," said Heldreth. The proud father said it was his son's own initiative to attempt to give the starving woman a glass of water, and despite the warning of his parents that he'd be arrested, the boy insisted. "He was the one who begged us to go down, because he wanted to give her a glass of water . . . We explained that police will never let you help . . . you'll be arrested, but he went anyways."
Pro-life leader Rev. Flip Benham of Operation Save America told LifeSiteNews.com that the whole pro-life movement shares Heldreth's pride in his son. Benham recalls the reaction of Heldreth on Good Friday as he watched his son being arrested: "When that all took place Scott was weeping, this father was weeping tears of joy seeing his son not only talk the Christian talk but walk the walk."
While the apology letter has been submitted, Heldreth told LifeSiteNews.com he's not completely sure it will be accepted.
See Joshua's full handwritten apology letter here:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005_docs/JoshuaApolog...
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This young lad is my hero.
I heard there were snipers posted on the rooftops in case this little boy needed to be eliminated altogether.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/090605_DOJ_Directs_HHS_To_Investigate_Schiavo_AD A_Complaint.html
This is what we've continued to push for even though Terri is gone. We wanted her to live but the guilty must be punished.
JUSTICE! This is a beginning. (The Pinellas GOP may be in trouble too because they aided and abetted Judge Greer. I hope it's a real probe and not a phony one).
Check out my last post. We are turning a MAJOR CORNER. Trolls will be so upset because there is going to be a PROBE by the feds. If their probe turns out to be a dog and pony show, we will call for ANOTHER, AND ANOTHER THEN ANOTHER. I will have a party when the Judges are perp walked out of here to a federal maximum security PRISON.
The Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice has directed the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate a complaint filed in the Terri Schindler-Schiavo case to determine if alleged discrimination by a public entity violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Terri Schindler-Schiavo died on March 31 at age 41 at Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, as the result of her estranged husband Michael Schiavo obtaining judicial approval to kill his wife by withdrawing her nutrition and hydration. She had been a resident at hospice since April, 2000, and although regulations require that she be certified terminal with less than six months to live, she was not terminal. She was disabled due to a brain injury sustained in 1990 as the result of a sudden collapse which has never been explained.
So, what does this mean FV? What kind of complaint? lately this has all been so silent i am beginning to wonder if there will ever be any suits filed about Terri or criminal charges ever brought against someone. I hate to see Terri's memory just fade away to so many.
http://www.theunion.com/article/20050905/NEWS/109050076
(think he was a Buddhist).
Reading the boy's very well written and thought out letter, ya just know that some lib wacko group is going to say people like this need to be "watched" because this could be your next Eric Rudolph.
I think the little man is a hero.
Think of it. It's an ADA violation standing alone that Terri was not allowed to appear in the courtroom. Then add to that what Medicaid did and what the judges failed to do and www.judgegeorgegreer.com and Judge James Whittemore, and FLA AG CRIST. I think the GOP realizes it better clean house or they won't have much of an election in 2006 or 2008. The calls to Congress are helping. Terri won't be forgotten even though the nation is responding to victims of Katrina. Many victims of Katrina have also been dehydrated and starvated, some of them died.
The ones who didn't perish have a story to tell: no water or food is PAINFUL.
Going to TEJ's main page can get you to the article if you can't get there from the link. www.theempirejournal.com. (it's encouraging to me).
An individual from New York filed the complaint. They are heroic just as the ten year old boy is a hero.
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