Posted on 09/01/2005 9:51:24 AM PDT by NYer
TAMPA BAY, August 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ten year-old Joshua Heldreth, the eldest of eight children, was arrested on Good Friday of this year for trespassing while attempting to bring a drink of water to Miss Terri Schaivo. Days later Schiavo died of intentional dehydration. In court Joshua pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 hours of community service and ordered to write an apology for his actions.
The boy whose arrest photo was splashed on front pages of newspapers across the nation wrote in his apology letter, "I was arrested on Good Friday for trespassing on the hospice center's property . . . Not giving Mrs. Shiavo (sic) food or water was wrong. The reason I had to go on your property was because Jesus would do the same thing. It made me sad that she was so thirsty and it made Jesus sad too. I knew she would die without water and I am called by Jesus to be a defender of the defenceless. So I had to go on your property to try to bring her a drink."
Joshua added, "I am sorry that you didn't like that and wouldn't allow me to help save her life and one day you will have to tell God why. I won't be able to help you then like I tried to help her. I will pray for you every day . . ."
LifeSiteNews.com caught up with Joshua's father Scott Heldreth today. Scott told LifeSiteNews.com he is very proud of his son. "My son has amazed me through this whole thing," said Heldreth. The proud father said it was his son's own initiative to attempt to give the starving woman a glass of water, and despite the warning of his parents that he'd be arrested, the boy insisted. "He was the one who begged us to go down, because he wanted to give her a glass of water . . . We explained that police will never let you help . . . you'll be arrested, but he went anyways."
Pro-life leader Rev. Flip Benham of Operation Save America told LifeSiteNews.com that the whole pro-life movement shares Heldreth's pride in his son. Benham recalls the reaction of Heldreth on Good Friday as he watched his son being arrested: "When that all took place Scott was weeping, this father was weeping tears of joy seeing his son not only talk the Christian talk but walk the walk."
While the apology letter has been submitted, Heldreth told LifeSiteNews.com he's not completely sure it will be accepted.
See Joshua's full handwritten apology letter here:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005_docs/JoshuaApolog...
Thanks. Sorry for the double.
"I think the little man is a hero"
Yes, he is a brave little man indeed.
Anyone have his address? I'd like to see him get a mail box full of attaboy cards for his actions.
BUMP
I pray that something really happens because of this! God bless the woman from Long Island who filed the complaint.
I really want for America and the world to know how evil Michael, Felos, and all the judges are for their decisions to constantly deprive Terri. I want Terri to have justice.
Yeah, it takes hairy chested manhood and guts to pick on a crippled girl who can't even defend herself. Kick her when she's down, George, you'll win another award.
Ohian...haven't seen you post much lately..I missed you
We have to have justice, not only for justice sake, but to help all of the other Terri's out there.
Terri was a precedent for forced euthanasia.
I agree. It is astonishing how Michael has gotten away with flaunting laws. It's about time something is done. I wonder how he and Jodi are getting along.
Contact www.newsmax.com and go to creator's syndicate where some of World Net Daily's columnists have columns. Get them on board too and www.renewamerica.us (Alan Keyes).
I haven't posted much in the last several months, though I still lurk (almost) every day. I just don't have quite the same zing in me that I had before Terri's judicially-approved homicide. Something in me changed when Terri was murdered with, not only the permission of so many, but the blessing from them as well. I thought we were a civilized society...eventually I realized that I was completely wrong. Terri died in the most barbaric and inhumane of methods IMHO.
I do cherish all Terri's FReepers, though. We have been through hell together on these boards. A special bond will always tie us together. I thank God for the gift of each of you!
I'm sure that if the walls could talk, we would hear quite a story!
Since we all know what an upstanding human being Michael Schiavo is, him and Jodi shouldn't have any trouble getting along. We all know how contagious these types of potassium imbalances can be. (sarcasm)
AMEN! Let's pray that the whole and entire truth come out and the guilty be punished. I'm sure if we ask Terri for her assistance, she will help!
An immediate stay of execution was requested until the matter could be resolved. But,...
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Here is the probe from another source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=1474904%2C415#help
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Justice Department Will Investigate Terri Schiavo Abuse Complaint
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 6, 2005
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Bush administration will investigate a discrimination complaint regarding the treatment of Terri Schiavo filed shortly after the disabled woman was euthanized in March. The section of the Justice Department that handles disability rights has instructed the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate.
The investigation will center on whether or not any discrimination occurred against Terri under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, according to the Empire Journal.
Terri became severely disabled following an unknown incident that occurred in 1990. Her husband Michael claims he found her lying face down on the floor with her arms crossed.
Though some say Terri's collapse was the result of a potassium imbalance, members of Terri's family point to medical documents that make it appear there may have been foul play.
After Michael received final court permission to euthanize his wife, Terri died on March 31 following a painful two-week long starvation and dehydration death.
Several days before Terri died, a New York special education teacher filed an eight-page complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice on Terri's behalf and cited what he believed were violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The complaint requested a stay preventing Terri's death while authorities looked into the allegations.
According to the Empire Journal, the Department of Justice did not receive the complaint until April 5.
Danielle Miller, a teacher at Central Islip High School in Suffolk County filed the complaint and also sent it to various Florida elected officials and authorities with other states.
The Empire Journal reports that it named as defendants the various members of the local, state and federal courts that denied Terri's parents the right to stop the euthanasia.
The complaint cites numerous abuse allegations, including improper medical care and treatment denied by Michael, his prohibition of her obtaining a divorce, an confusion over whether Terri would have wanted to be killed because of her incapacitated state.
There is no word on how long it will take the HHS Department to look into the matter. The Justice Department directed HHS to investigate and provide a written report back to the federal agency.
Printed from: http://www.lifenews.com/bio1125.html
And this from the Times Herald of Port Huron, Michigan, http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/OPINION03/509060316/1014/OPINION
Article published Sep 6, 2005
Columnist incorrectly links Terri Schiavo, Susan Torres
In "Pro-lifers must consider fiscal effects of outlawing abortion," Robyn Limberg-Child's Sept. 1 column, she misleadingly compared Susan Torres' death to Terri Schiavo's. The two cases were legally and medically very different.
Legally, Terri Schiavo was being terminated against the will of all of her blood relatives based on hearsay testimony that was only produced after a financial motive was present. Terri was minimally conscious and not dying.
Susan Torres had a brain tumor that was killing her, and she was kept alive through artificial respirators and other medical treatments that could not go on for ever.
In other words, Susan Torres' death was imminent and the medical procedures only served to extend her dying for days or weeks. Terri Schiavo only needed food and water and would have lived at home under her own family's care for decades.
There's a big difference between Terri Schiavo and Susan Torres. There is as much difference between letting a woman starve and die of thirst for 14 days and Susan Torres' death as there is between tearing the limbs of a post viability fetus to suction it out and a miscarriage.
Money simply plays no part in determining what is morally right or wrong - for you - or any other person.
GUALBERTO GARCIA JONES
Washington, D.C., Sept. 1
"They" (whoever they are) saw that the case wasn't presented in time and they will also see that it disappears. Such a shame.
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