Micheal Schiavo is an effing monster. How can someone not allow family into see her?
I would assume he is going to have a long and happy life....NOT
Maybe it's safe now to say what I wanted to say much earlier in all of this but didn't because I didn't want to bring harm to this forum.
My duty as a father would have forced me to protect my daughter at all cost, therefore the custody issue would have been resolved early on in this fight. Michael would be pushing up daisies, I would be in jail (for a while. you know wussed those criminal courts can be about sentencing), and my wife (or in my case, my ex wife) would be caring for our daughter as she would be her new next of kin. End of story.
In the worst case that custody would change to the state and not my ex-wife, I highly doubt that the state ordering the death of someone in their care would be appreciated by the masses as much as Michael (or my daughter's equivilent) ordering her death. I could be wrong about that, but at least I would have done all I could.
I don't fault Mr.Schindler for his chosen course of action. Honestly, he had every reason to believe that this would not be allowed to happen in the USA, that someone, somewhere, would find a way to prevent this terrible murder.
But I'm more cynical than most. Personally I did not have the faith in our system that he had, though I really tried to give it the benefit of the doubt for a while. I guess my cynicism was well founded.
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