Posted on 03/27/2008 11:24:35 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
Dad Allowed to Take Leave From Prison to See His Dying Little Girl
Thursday, March 27, 2008
OMAHA, Neb. — A 10-year-old Nebraska girl with terminal brain cancer had a simple last wish: to have her dad by her side as she lay on her death bed.
On Wednesday, seemingly against all odds, Jayci Yaeger's wish came true.
Her father, Jason Yaeger, who has been locked up in a South Dakota federal prison on methamphetamine charges, was allowed to see his daughter for what may be the last time.
He was furloughed after a barrage of letters and phone calls from around the country convinced officials to let him visit the hospital, according to KETV.com.
Jayci, who cannot speak, move or eat, could sense that her father was next to her and feel his touch, because she began breathing more heavily during his visit, the family told FOX News.
But to their disappointment, the visit lasted only about 30 minutes.
"She wants her dad. She goes to her room crying because she wants her dad," Jayci's mom, Vonda Yaeger, told KETV before the prison warden agreed to permit Jason to see his daughter.
The girl's condition has been described as minute-to-minute, and she recently suffered a stroke.
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I believe this father has offered to double his remaining prison time, returning after his daughter passes away.
If you really equate making BK with making meth, I cannot help you.
And I so do not want to come to dinner at your place.
Choices have consequences.
Good God, are you for real?
Unfortunately, death is an ordinary circumstance. On any given day there are probably thousands of prisoners with a dying loved one.
Extraordinary circumstance would be one like donating a kidney or bone marrow in order to save the child’s life.
Also furloughs are a priviledge and may not be granted to prisoners that do not participate in rehabilitation programs like GED education and drug treatment. It is also true that the extended furlough is one that is well known for it’s walk away rate, so you can see why the warden may not wish to grant one except in the most exceptional of circumstances.
Neither you or I have access to the prisoner’s file, how would you like to be this warden being second guessed by an emotional and ignorant public inflamed by yellow journalism?
And if you think that this child should take his mistakes in her last breath, you are far more screwed up than you appear.
Also, I think perhaps you ought not assume so much about me.
That I have seen the evil results of meth =/= me doing meth.
After all, the majority of us who oppose abortion have never had one.
This about the same arguments the Left uses to justify refusing to deport illegals.
There are millions of illegals who are hard working, and otherwise honest people who only want one thing, a better future for themselves and especially their children.
THEY didn’t do drugs, they didn’t make choices to separate them from their children. The prisoner made those choices. The illegals made the only reasonable decision left to them if they wanted to better themselves and a chance for their children.
In many ways they are far more deserving, and their children at least equally deserving as this little girl.
They are brave little fighters who should be given a chance.
You have a problem with my pinging someone you mentioned but did not ping?
It is interesting to see the extremes in viewpoint come out, especially on threads discussing a mix of the law vs. emotion.
This case.
Taser cases.
Sometimes the first article is slanted towards against the principal of the story, then a second comes out slanted the other way.
It’s almost as if we are being ‘tested’.
Don’t waste your breath.
This lynch mob is too emotional to be reasoned with.
I’m trying to differentiat you and your arguments from those made by Dane and other Lefties to justify allowing illegals to remain because of their children.
Except for the screen name I can’t.
I never once thought you did meth, you spoke about having it be a part of your life, I assumed you meant someone other than yourself. What you seem to be lacking because of that is the ability to see this from the child’s point of view. She isn’t a pawn in this game, she is a dying child who wants to be with her dad when she goes. When all is said and done, I have no clue why anyone would look back and say, ‘Damn right I’m glad she died without him there! Serves the bastard right!’ This is not about him.
No, no problem at all with it. Being that you are the queen of etiquette. LOL
It isn’t the little girl who petitioned for furlough, it was the father. They are completely unable to take her wishes into consideration, not how reality works. Sad but true.
*rme*
Aside from the fact that they are in the country illegally and she isn’t and they aren’t dying and she is, there is no difference at all, Matlock.
She is not being *punished*, she is being victimised, by her father, again.
Well, the question was to how you would choose to pay your debts, not how you came to owe them. I'll submit it's quite possible to find yourself having to make the same choice without ever having touched meth. I'll submit further that life isn't always fair, and you could find yourself faced with having to make the same choice through no substantial fault of your own.
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