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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Thanks for the ping!
Beware of roaming trolls. They call evil good and good evil.
They will have to send cleaning crews into the bookstores to remove HINO germs. HINO is a weapon of mrs. destruction.
see my last post sometime. catchy new name for HINO.
Michael Schiavo is a republican. The author only connected politically if HINO is a RINO. (I'm hot today.)
OF COURSE TERRI WAS MURDERED and that's the plain truth. Someday, somebody's going to jail. We will party then.
No, Schiavo CANNOT change parties, for he is indebted to the Pinellas GOP establishment and votes in the primaries for its slate, I would presume. He may vote Democrat for President but GOP for local offices.
HINO the RINO! LOL
I sense your shock is not quite genuine...giggle
Well, heh heh heh
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Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
From North Country Gazette..
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HINO, RINO, WMD Cleanup on aisle five.
May her book enjoy the same status on the bookshelf as I wish for Micheal's "True Lies."
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You do know that Miss Crier is a former Texas Republican from Dallas, isn't she?
"Sooner rather than later, we may be living in a very different country, a country that had been ours, a country that will be theirs.
The liberals have created a wedge - notice "ours" .. "theirs". Clinton years were good for that - a divide and conquer mentality. War within our country - The anti crowd vs. The Americans. IMO,Liberalism is a lack of love of God and love of country in one's life.
8mm - great title for MS's rag piece.
Actually I was at first nicely taken in by her Texan countenence and her background echoes that of many I consider my kind of conservative. But, some of my own cohorts of twenty years ago, once tasting power, shifted gears and today sound like her.
Taste of power does that to some.
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"Mr. Hirsh promises to tell "the truth"
Sure he will..lol
He'll fix that book so HINO looks lily white.
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