Posted on 02/22/2011 9:01:22 AM PST by TSgt
The Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney says no charges will be filed against a sheriff deputy whose son died while playing with a gun. Four year old Aiden Mehlbauer was hit with a bullet in the stomach and died last Wednesday.
Police say Aiden Mehlbauer and his twin brother, Mason were in the basement of their home playing around 4 p.m. that afternoon. Their mother told investigators she was upstairs helping her six year old daughter with her homework. The boys were apparently in an office area currently under construction in which the boys' father, Greg Mehlbauer, a Franklin County Sheriff's deputy has stored his uniforms and other law enforcement equipment.
In that area, State Police say the twins located a loaded .40 caliber Glock semi automatic handgun. The boys were handling the gun when it discharged, striking Aiden in the abdomen.
Aiden was taken by Air Care helicopter to Cincinnati Children's Hospital where he died several hours later.
Deputy Mehlbauer was at work at the time of the shooting. He has been a Franklin County Sheriff Deputy for the past 10 years.
The Indiana State Police handled the investigation. Today, in a release to the media, the prosecuting attorney, Mel Wilhelm, said his office "has carefully reviewed the state police reports and has spoken at length with investigators concerning their findings and feels the circumstances surrounding this incident do not meet the elements of a crime under the Indiana Code."
The short answer is: Yes.
The full answer is: When a mother-to- be has no job, no husband, and no way to provide for the child-to-be, only the uncaring would demand that the state force the birth of a child which can’t be cared for, by an unwilling mother, who will be without family or husband.
Addendum to my last post to you.
The government must not be allowed to subsidize the production of ‘bachelor’s children’ by taxing others to support the reproduction of teh irresponsible, the incompetent, the un-acculturated, the illegal aliens, ad nauseam.
Oh, don’t forget OctoMom and the fearlessly fecund followers of MadMo.
I didn't say "-to-be".
YAWN, more deflecting and Ad Hominem.
Still can’t answer how the incident meets the elements of the Statute. You do realize that people can see through your charade.
However, libertines never let facts get in the way of their agenda. So drive on.
I have the support of other FReepers on this thread.
I have proved my point with facts.
Jack Booted Thugs like you will always be a minority on FR.
Now go write someone a ticket for a mile over the speed limit like a good state thug.
No, he has wall posters of other guys in their SWAT gear.
“When a mother-to-
I didn’t say “-to-be”.”
Perhaps I am confused by your use of words. If the child has been delivered and is killed, wouldn’t it be infanticide, rather than abortion?
Let me repost your words. The govn't does not own the child so the state has no right to intervene in a childs death.
The state has no right to intervene after a child dies in such cases because they do not own the child.
Elements... Please point out specifically how this incident meets the elements of the offense as defined in the Statute. You can post all the other examples that you want (forget for a second that I posted contrary examples), but they are irrelevant to this case. If you want to have a shot at being coherent, you need to point out SPECIFICALLY the facts that show that in this particular case, the elements of the offense were met, with the standard of criminal culpability required.
Still waiting. Your inability speaks volumes.
As for the rest of your Ad Hominem... YAWN.
IMHO, absent cause to believe that someone behaved in a criminal manner, an accident should be just that: an accident. No matter what you do for a living.
Late getting back to this thread but the http://www.theindychannel.com/news/19263362/detail.html link offers support for freedomwarrior’s argument.
From his comment regarding the criminal code: “Sec. 7. A child’s parent or legal guardian who knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly permits the child to possess a firearm.”
From your article: “Police said the 2008 incident was not the first time that the boy had found a gun at home and fired it. Eight months prior, when the family was living at a different Indianapolis home, the boy used a chair to reach his father’s gun atop a refrigerator. On that day, he fired a bullet into a kitchen cupboard, police said.”
It can be argued that in light of the son’s history and his temperament (remember that he went looking for the gun and deliberately shot his sister after an argument - that kind of rage doesn’t just spring into being overnight), the father didn’t take the necessary gun safety precautions. I’m not saying that I think he needed the additional punishment of a jail sentence on top of losing his daughter but the DA did have LEGALLY reasonable cause for charging him according to Indiana criminal code.
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