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...
'Terri was killed by judicial activism.'
My feelings too!
Feeding tube patients CAN BE CONNECTED OR DISCONNECTED. That's no excuse to be left behind to drown! Since it was their mouthpiece saying it, I wonder if he's a friend of our death lawyers in Florida.
#683. US Congress toll free number. Feeding tube patients were left behind. That's the defense of St. Rita's owners. Are they going to get away with it? What's the precedence for specifically lvg patients on feeding tubes to drown? Will they cite Schiavo v. Bush?????
Aren't those hilarious???
The impact is that the great concert halls in Florida who provide educational programs for children will be forced to pay $2,000.00 per actor, per music or other instructor. At $2,000.00 per person who is part of Florida's Performing Arts & Education system, the programs for talented children may shut down because of the cost.
This would affect Ruth Eckerd Hall, the 12th most popular theatre venue in the world.
That slimebucket sexually molested and murdered Jessica Lunsford. HE HAD A CRIMINAL RECORD. The point is to keep these predators locked up. CHARLIE CRIST AND FLORIDA'S FAB JUDGES DIDN'T SEE FIT TO KEEP THE PERP LOCKED UP. Now they are going to punish decent people with integrity and many are from local churches.
A background check program should not be a windfall for companies who do background checks and talented children will no longer get lessons. This is a coup for background check companies. They'll become RICH and the concert halls will go silent.
I've been asked to pass this along. If the Lunsford Act is a federal act, it may endanger educational programs for talented kids in your state. FV
It's B.S.
People with feeding tubes are people too.
http://www.fairfieldmirror.com/media/paper148/news/2005/09/15/News/Catholic.Organization.Suggests.Firing.Of.Fu.Professor-986029.shtml
See #711
I have more current information than you do on the background checks. So whomever you are, if you are misleading the folks here, cut it out.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/0915053_Remember_Terri_Rally_Scheduled_At_Bioethics_Conference.html
Appropriate judicial restraints for a judge who abused the power of the bench to murder an innocent disabled woman would be the leather arm and leg bands on Old Sparky, Florida's legendary electric chair. After due process, of course.
No, that's a House bill, HB 1877, not the "actual Jessica Lunsford Act itself." You need not read the 82 pages of this PDF; the first few lines will show you that your information is incorrect. A bill is not enacted until it is passed by both houses and signed by the governor.
I trust you will maintain your interest in "providing accurate, factual information," only do please try to be accurate and factual next time.
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