Posted on 04/16/2005 8:15:30 AM PDT by kingattax
TAMPA, Fla. -- State investigators found no evidence that Terri Schiavo had been abused or exploited by either side of her family, according to documents released by Florida's Department of Children and Families.
The agency investigated 89 complaints dating back to 2001, when Schiavo's feeding tube was removed for the first time and the legal battle surrounding her right-to-die case intensified.
The calls alleged that the brain-damaged woman was being mistreated by her husband and her parents for financial gain. One complaint alleged that Schiavo's parents were selling videos of her through a Web site; another said Schiavo's husband wasn't spending money intended for her rehabilitation.
But investigators said they found no evidence that either her husband or parents were exploiting her, and often noted in their records that they found Schiavo well cared for on their visits to her Pinellas Park hospice.
The agency released the records Friday under court order.
Schiavo, 41, died last month after her feeding tube was removed for the third time, ending a bitter court battle between her husband, Michael Schiavo, and parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, over whether she would have wanted to live in a vegetative state.
The repeated allegations of abuse were based partly on bone scans showing Terri Schiavo suffered fractures and statements she made to family and friends that she was unhappy in her marriage.
Schiavo's husband has denied harming his wife. His lawyer said the fractures resulted from osteoporosis caused by the woman's years of immobility and complications of her medication.
Robert Schindler declined to comment there on the release of the DCF documents. An attorney for Michael Schiavo did not immediately return calls
I've read that before
A mindset is a terrible thing to waste.
Peach, I know you're trying, but your argument's a little fuzzy...
No. Wait. A lot fuzzy.
Riiiight.
Keep relying on unsourced material vs. under oath testimony from her doctors. That makes you so credible.
Perhaps your receiver is not tuned in.
bottom line........do you personally agree that removing her feeding tube was the right thing to do ? yes or no please
It's not up to me. It's was up to her wishes, her husband, her doctors, and ultimately a court of law.
To watch freepers continue to allege conspiracy and disregard under oath testimony is just sad.
It's done in cases of terminal illness everyday not in cases that kill off the disabled.
There is a difference.
So again, criminal cases are in courts all the time, many are judged by stupid judges, but for this country to go nuts over one case is very stupid, to say the least. The only reason this one case had lots of ink is because it was backed by the Evangelical blow hards, who don't know Christ if he hit them in a$$.
No, she wasn't abused. They just allowed her to be dehydrated and starved to death.
Feeding tubes are removed every day of the week from people who have no brain activity. If you wish to link those people with the disabled, you are doing a great job in frightening people who have disabilities like MS, etc.
My Aunt died like that. She needed a pace maker was all but because she was on morphine and didn't "know" her kids when they came in, the kids determined she wouldn't have wanted to live like that and ordered her feeding tube removed.
My cousin had liver cancer, went to the hospital and was talking about getting her glasses fixed when she got out! Fully coherent, until the Dr told the family that she wouldn't get any better, so they told him to stop feeding her too.
What's really SAD is that so many people think it's okie dokie to dehydrate and starve an innocent disabled woman to death. Now THAT'S really sad.
It would be a rare doctor who would determine that a patient merely needed a pacemaker but would remove and kill a patient based on the wishes of the family. Why, he'd be subjected to a lawsuit and you should institute one right away.
9 Q The report goes on to say, "The
10 presumption is that the other multiple areas of
11 abnormal activity also relate to previous trauma."
12 A That's what it says.
13 Q And, again, that's based on the fact that
14 Dr. Carnahan is a rehab physician, that you were
15 asked to evaluate for trauma?
16 A And the pattern of activity is fairly
17 typical of multiple traumatic injuries of relatively
18 recent origin.
19 Q I realize you can't assign a cause to
20 these injuries that you picked up in this report.
21 But typically in your experience, what would be the
22 causes of this pattern of abnormality?
23 A In somebody her age, an auto accident is
24 by far the most typical cause.
25 Q Assume that she was not in an auto
? 29
1 accident but that she had suffered an anoxic or
2 hypoxic encephalopathy type of injury from a cardiac
3 arrest and had been bedridden for a year at this
4 point. What might account for these abnormalities?
5 A In my knowledge, that type of injury
6 would not account for this pattern of abnormalities.
lol
So you don't think people should have living wills which determine their end of life issues? You think that people who have no brain activity and no hope for recovery should be kept alive like that?
Then you should make your wishes clearly known, in writing, to your family and attorney.
The Florida DCF has a great record of protecting innocent vulnerable victims, doesn't it? A really great record. CONSIDER THE SOURCE.
NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID TO TERRI! NEVER FORGET!!
This is a cover up. Naturally, the DCF had to find no evidence of abuse - otherwise they would have participated in that abuse by allowing it to continue. (Duh.)
I do not wish to be dehydrated/starved to death. I'm funny that way.
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