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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Yeah, it doesn’t.
BTW, “you’re” is short for “you are”.
Sorry that the kid is without her dad. It’s not her fault.
Butt... By your logic, nobody with kids could ever go to jail.
Scumbags have kids too. Their actions make bad things happen to nice people, including their kids.
Actions have consequences.
Choices have consequences.
In this case, Dad chose to deal in meth.
The consequence is not to see his daughter die.
That, folks, is how the cookie crumbles.
You do the crime, you - and your dependents and relatives and loved ones - do the time.
The reality is that you can be put in a position of having to make that choice without ever having done what he did.
The conundrum is, why is it so easy to criticize him for making that choice, without being sure you wouldn't do the same?
Because meth is evil, and I can say with absolutely no fear of God or man that I will never be involved therein.
Corollary: I like to think that if I have children, I will have them in a responsible matter and raise them up unto my values.
So they won’t be doing meth either.
You still haven’t answered whether you’d think him a better man if he didn’t even try.
Do we know what it is that he did? He *is* in a minimum security prison. He is not behind bars.
I’m just thinking aloud here, but there is a teeny chance that whatever his involvement with meth could have come *after* his daughter was diagnosed. Sometimes really good people lose grip with reality when their young child is diagnosed with cancer. I’m just saying...
Yes, it does. You came in here both barrels blazing, now finish it. He has paid for his previous visits with his daughter so it wasn’t at taxpayer expense, has minimal time left to serve and has said he will double his time left to serve so he can be with her when she passes. He will not get off with less time served and may have ended up with more than sentenced and is not costing the tax payers any more money than the inital incarceration. He is with her when she passes, goes back to finish his sentence, maybe even longer and costs no more than expected. What the hell is your problem with this?
Would it be different if he was in prison for something besides meth?
Try = deal meth?
Thank you for that, I had forgotten how smart Renaissance people were. Or something like that.
No, please read the entire thread.
Try = try to be with his daughter when she died. Would it be different if it wasn’t about meth?
Yes.
Meth destroys lives.
Bouncing checks to the local grocery rarely results in death.
Thanks for your excellent summary of this case so far...it is appreciated..
As for me, I have no problem, with this father being allowed to be with his daughter when she passes...
The sentence is the sentence.
It’s mean and awful, yes.
And perhaps, just maybe, it’ll prompt the next lowlife to think, “Hey, maybe I could never see my kids again, and that’d suck.”
Evidently. There are many here who think this criminal should be given a cahnce to be with his daughter, but no the criminals who cross the borders illegally should not.
My performer status has no bearing on my command of the language. Thanks for trying, though.
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