Michael: Block Bone Scan Showing Possible Abuse of Terri Schiavo

LifeNews.com ^ | November 19, 2003 | Steven Ertelt

[nickcarraway]

Pinellas Park, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Judge George Greer will hear a motion tomorrow filed by Michael Schiavo that would prevent discovery of information regarding a bone scan conducted on Terri Schiavo that shows she may have been a victim of physical abuse.

While most media outlets have reported that Terri Schiavo collapsed at home in 1990 as a result of a potassium imbalance, Terri's family has long suspected that the real cause may have been physical abuse at the hand of her estranged husband Michael.

A bone scan conducted on Terri in March 1991 showed she had several fractures and was the victim of "abnormal activity" that caused "previous traumas," indicating she may have been beaten or abused.

Attorneys for Terri's family had planned to depose Dr. Campbell Walker, the radiologist who conducted the bone scan, on Friday to obtain his further analysis of it.

Michael's motion asks the court to block the deposition saying that the court has already dealt with the bone scan in previous hearings.

Terri's parents Bob and Mary Schindler hope the information from Dr. Campbell will help show Judge Greer that Michael is unfit to be Terri's guardian. A case to change guardianship to Terri's brother Bob is pending before Greer.

The Schindlers have asked Pinellas County State Attorney Bernie McCabe on several occasions to call a grand jury to investigate the bone scan as well as other abuses during Michael's guardianship.

At the time, McCabe declined to investigate saying too much time had passed between the collapse and the scan.

Also, doctors other than those selected by Michael's attorney have reviewed Terri's medical records.

"It was found that a heart attack did not cause Terri's collapse as everyone was led to believe. Rather, according to one physician, Terri may have been a strangulation victim," Pamela Hennessy, a representative of the family, told LifeNews.com previously.

The Schindlers say Michael also wants to remove any possible evidence that could be used to substantiate accusations of wrongdoing.

Michael wants Terri's body cremated if she dies, which would deny any chance the family has to validate a long-held suspicion.

"Michael has instructed the judge to cremate her body upon her death, which adds even more suspicion to what really happened to Terri," Bob Schindler said.

He added, "We're trying to stop the cremation from happening if Terri does die, so hopefully, we get to the process of investigating what may have happened to Terri that evening."

In September, three nurses filed affidavits saying Michael has withheld proper medical care from Terri.

"He's been trying to kill her -- that's the bottom line," said Carla Sauer Iyer, a 39-year-old registered nurse who cared for Terri Schiavo at a nursing home in 1995 and '96. She says Terri has said words such as "Mommy," "help me" and "pain."

George Felos, the assisted suicide advocate who is Michael's attorney, calls the nurse's statements, "a bunch of garbage." He claims Michael has been insistent that Terri receive the best medical care possible.

Related web sites:

Terri's Family - http://www.terrisfight.org

Terri Schiavo's bone scan -

http://www.terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg

[Concerned]

SUPERCAT WROTE: "The people who are working hardest to kill Terri are doing so not because they know she'll never recover, but because they fear she might."

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I AM RESPONDING:
You nailed it, supercat!

[Concerned]

Sorry about the double post.

[Concerned]

HI TECH REDNECK WROTE: "If those goons are fool enough to try suing anyone in connection with FreeRepublic, they will learn the definition of "hornet's nest" the hard way. "

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LOL!

[FITZ]

I know Supercat is right --- but some of the pro-Terri's-death people will claim she is already dead, already feels nothing, is aware of nothing etc ---- but that defeats their argument that she needs to be killed --- if she's already dead like they say then there should be no big hurry to kill her, they act like she's already a corpse --- but are driving themselves insane that she's taking up space on a cot rather than in a coffin --- what difference does it make to any of them where her body is? She's not hurting anyone to be left with her family.

[FITZ]

You are right they fear she'll recover or improve in some way. Otherwise they could just say her family is sentimental and foolish but let her go back to them ---- they keep insisting the family is wrong --- but so what if they are? It's not hurting anyone for them to take Terri and visit her, and get her some rehab. Something is obviously wrong with their desperate need to have her die.

[Travis Bickel/Marine Inspector]

Hey Arne, I'll post mine when you post yours.

[Travis Bickel/Marine Inspector]

Terri Schiavo can't eat, drink, see, speak, walk, talk or think

And how do you know she can't think?

Are you Psychic or just Psycho?

[azhenfud]

"Michael wants Terri's body cremated if she dies, which would deny any chance the family has to validate a long-held suspicion."

Michael wants Terri's body cremated to avoid larger expenditures in funeral expenses than he would with cremation.

I'd be surprised if that wish is granted if there is one thread of suspicion. Any DA or judge could issue a stop order barring cremation and order the preserving of the remains for future tests.

[Ciexyz]

On the day that Christians commemorate the passion and suffering of our Lord, we wonder if this is the day when the murder and euthanasia of Terri Schindler Schiavo will be accomplished by the state approved death factory.