Posted on 09/14/2007 5:26:53 AM PDT by RDTF
PHILADELPHIA - An Amish community that lost five girls in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting massacre last year has donated money to the widow of the gunman, the community said Wednesday.
The Nickel Mines Accountability Committee, which was set up to handle more than $4.3 million in donations from around the world after the shootings, said it had given an unspecified "contribution" to Marie Roberts, a mother of three.
Her husband, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver who was not Amish, tied up and shot 10 Amish schoolgirls aged 6 to 14 in their classroom last Oct. 2, killing five of them before turning the gun on himself.
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with this guy as a husband and father maybe being a widow and fatherless is preferable to the alternative
it’s not like this guy woke up one day and decided to start a new life, he raped and murdered children with significant premeditation, his wife may have woken up that day feeling everything was hunky dory but I don’t think so
Not the same because the suicide bomber’s family approves of what the suicide bomber is doing.
Reward a criminal murder’s family!.... No, forgiving the tresspasser and trying to make it easier for other victims, his family.
We must set up a fund for all murderer’s families to reward them because the murderer went crazy!....THEY didn’t set up a fund. They aren’t rewarding anyone. They forgave the man and share their material with the family who are victims,also.
“All of my sympathy goes to the victims and their families and none to his family!”
Then you also have my sympathies. You are going through life with vengeance in your heart, even towards the innocent. You must have had a particularly hard life, and that is too bad.
The reason I changed my mind is the Amish do not pay Social Security because of their religion and thought the murderer’s family would be destitute.
As the family is not Amish the family will get Social Security.
Note: The Amish pay all other taxes but not the social security tax!
It starts with little things...
We seem to have missed THIS part in this thread!
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