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...
You show your only interest is in challenging floriduh voter, something sort of unusual for the usual troll without an agenda.What is a conservative to think? So tell us all about yourself and explain why you are not a troll.
278 to go.
Well you are brighter than most trolls allright, You can spell and use grammar and use the bold fonts. I do not quite understand how you can call your target "DUH" and then attempt to convince anyone beyond troll level that you are not sarcastic and not targeting a specific individual. Your syntax is out of place.
In your lexicon, perhaps attacking and dogging a person is "dabate" but this is a conservative forum. You should learn the real meanings of words.
Just a friendly tip.
Would you be a retread by any chance??
Did one of you tell me that FL did NOT pass a ban on dehydrating and starving the disabled?
If so, do you have a link, or the story?
Not I. Will look, though.
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Most Americans have little understanding of the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court. For the most part it is only a building which becomes prominent in our lives when a celebrated decision such as whether or not the next person to take the oath of office is really the one who is legally chosen as was the case on December 12th of 2000. We took notice when the parents of Terri Schiavo fought to prevent the state of Florida from legally allowing a judge to murder their innocent daughter.
But right now out of the sight of most Americans is a quiet movement to allow the legal decision making process of the U.S. Supreme Court to incorporate judicial findings of law from countries like France, Germany, the Netherlands, Aruba or even Jamaica in determining American constitutional questions in cases that come before it. We may want to vacation in Jamaica but I don't think we want to have our cases decided on their legal precedents or Aruba, with their top notch legal sleuthing.
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The site includes legal information from the State of Florida.
God bless you, Scott, may they fail with you where they succeeded with Terri.
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Judge Greed did us that service of showing us what tyrants can do. He is still there......
I hope one day Greer gets payback big time for the death of Terri. I would love to see him arrested at the bench but i doubt it will ever happen. His justice will come in HELL!
Liberals can never be factually correct! It goes against all they stand for and believe in which is areo fritto. Wishing You a great day.
Regarding REPRESENTATIVE BOBBY JINDAL from Louisiana, my phone call to him yesterday WAS TOTALLY APPROPRIATE. He's been in the St. Bernard parish doing relief work days on end and I don't even know if he's changed shirts. So, radh, nobody has targeted you....look in the mirror, newbie.
ACCUSING FREEPERS OF LYING IS A SERIOUS MATTER. Following freepers from thread to thread to discredit them is no different than a personal attack, maybe it's worse than a personal attack.
There is NO BAN in Florida. People can still be starved and dehydrated by judges here. Hearsay evidence is the standard. Florida is the starvation state. A federal ban will save millions of lives in the United States. State's rights can't handle this issue. It is a Civil Rights issue imo and THAT IS A FEDERAL MATTER.
Ping.
I am factually correct! I resent posts that say otherwise. Facts change day to day. I am usually a day or more ahead of trolls' information. They are usually a day late and a dollar short.
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