Posted on 11/21/2006 10:21:53 AM PST by NormsRevenge
ORLANDO, Fla. - Relatives of a missing boy's mother who killed herself after aggressive questioning by CNN's Nancy Grace sued the network and the talk-show host Tuesday, claiming Grace caused emotional distress that led to the suicide.
Melinda Duckett committed suicide Sept. 8, a day after Grace's show on CNN Headline News aired a segment in which Grace grilled Duckett about her whereabouts Aug. 27 — the day 2-year-old Trenton Duckett was reported missing.
Authorities, who said last week they believe the boy is alive, have named Melinda Duckett as the prime suspect in his disappearance.
Jay Paul Deratany, the attorney representing Duckett's estate, said Tuesday that Grace encouraged Duckett to appear on her show by saying the goal was to draw public attention to help find Trenton.
"It's not just about the questioning, it's about the misrepresentation with the knowledge that she was emotionally distraught," Deratany said. The attorney said Grace improperly took on the role of a law enforcement officer.
CNN Headline News declined to comment specifically on the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages.
"We stand by Nancy Grace and fully support her, as we have from the beginning of this matter," a spokeswoman said in a news release Tuesday.
Agreed, she's incredibly irritating and takes herself far to seriously. I don't know how anyone can stand her, honestly.
However, I do like the attention she has brought to child victims and how she has gone after judges who have given more or less a pass to dangerous repeat pedophiles - men who for years have raped children. Far too few in the media do it. And she is one of the few to remember our fallen soldiers almost every time.
There is nothing wrong with disliking Nancy. But it is dishonest to attack her when she is right as some are doing.
Melinda should not even have had custody of Trenton. She received it only because she faked a threat from her former husband and filed false charges against him. Incredibly CPS thought it was okay for her to make porn videos while the child was present.
Since Melinda's family was conspicuously silent and missing during the search for Trenton and now suddenly want money, the police should take a closer look at them.
I am not accusing them of harming or kidnapping Trenton. However, more than one murder has been committed where the killer hoped to collect from a fat lawsuit.
I cannot stand Nancy Grace or the sight of her flaring nostrils. She is just one very unpleasant woman. Pity the man who is her husband, if there is one.
Wow it is real “conservative” to defend a woman who murdered her child. A woman who has a history of abusing her child. And the child turns up missing, oohhh I wonder who had something to do with it???? Maybe it is the person who has abused him in the past???
I’m glad Melinda killed herself, one less child murderer on the loose.
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