[Orlando]

I got this news from the Father movement website. http://standyourground.com/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=896d2fcb17d759dfb404a1632528f20d&topic=15529.0

I wanted to give them credit in this fight, and I ask my friends here for help too. Thank You, and God Bless... Happy Easter to all...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Sad story. But the law is the law, no release from prison for her criminal father.

[Bobalu]

Drug charges huh...
The drug war is foolish!
I agree with Wm F Buckley ... the drug laws are stoopid.

Let this man go to his little girls side.

[lilylangtree]

Wonder if online video could be set up so that they could communicate with each other because I don’t see he getting medical leave from the pen.

[conservative cat]

If he’s in no danger of fleeing or has a violent past, let him out for awhile. If either of those, let him visit escorted.

[maine-iac7]

WE need to get the email adds and phone #'s of the prison - and the prison bureau - this little girl needs her daddy to hold her.

If he were a murderer or molester or terrorist, he'd get the red carpet out - id this doesn't meed the

Bureau of Prisons officials have reviewed inmate Yaeger's request for a compassionate release and have determined his situation does not meet the criteria set forth by the Bureau of Prisons Program ... Inmate Yaeger's request for extended placement in a Residential Re-entry Center is currently in litigation; therefore, we are unable to comment further on this request.

[machogirl]

so sad, if he only had not done the crime, he would be there for his child

i had a former acquaintance who was in jail, awaiting trial, and his mother died, they wouldn’t let him out for her funeral, but he made his choice to break the law

if the guy is not a violent criminal, maybe something could be worked out for the little girl’s sake, not her father’s

[garylmoore]

Lord have mercy, where’s the compassion of this warden? This little girl didn’t commit the crime, what would hurt to let this convict spend a little time with the dying girl?

[peggybac]

I saw this on the news earlier. So sad.

[BykrBayb]

In response to inmate Yeager's request, he has been escorted by prison staff on three separate occasions to allow him to be with his daughter during this difficult time. Two of these trips have occurred within the past month.

[Sudetenland]

This is the law of unintended consequences. To many people think only of themselves when the break the law.

Where was this father's concern for his little girl when he broke the law?

Compassion is a wonderful thing and it is true that this little girl is completely innocent and deserves to have her loved ones around her. Unfortunately, her father was more concerned with his drugs than he was with her welfare.

How many of the people calling for "compassion" here have rejected the calls for compassion for all of the anchor babies who have been born here by illegal aliens? Do we show compassion for them by overlooking the non-violent transgressions of the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who will be caught in the trap should they be forced to return across the border?

Our children are forced to pay the price for our selfish neglect everyday. It is not their fault, they did not ask for it, but is happens. How many children in America are growing up without their fathers right now because they are in prison for some crime? Maybe we should just open up the prison gates and let them all go back home to their children.

It's a sucky deal, but it is what we as a society have chosen to institute.

"Compassion" is what has turned our prisons into revolving door health spas for criminals. Three hots and a cot plus all the exercise equipment a criminal could possibly desire and cable television to boot.

Sorry, but as much as I feel sorry for this little innocent, compassion has no business in our justice system. Perhaps if there was a little less compassion and more long stretches without parole we could get some control of our criminal class.

Flame away if it makes you feel better.

[knuthom]

A little girl fights for her life, and her last wish is to see her father. But that wish may not come true.

The article makes it sound like she has not been able to see him at all. But the prison states that "he has been escorted by prison staff on three separate occasions to allow him to be with his daughter during this difficult time. Two of these trips have occurred within the past month."

So which is it? Has he been allowed to visit? Are they trying to let him stay until she dies? Twisting the facts to make it sound like he has not been allowed to visit at all does not help her case if it is untrue.