Posted on 02/16/2005 12:59:45 PM PST by mhking
I'm set to go on Bill O'Reilly's talkfest tonight on Fox News Channel.
Tonight's subject has to do with a local Atlanta case where a mother killed her own five-week old baby by shaking her to death in December of 1998.
34 year-old Carissa Ashe pleaded guilty to a charge of voluntary manslaughter last week in Fulton County Superior Court, bringing to an end her murder trial.
Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes sentenced Ashe to five years probation and to have a sterilization procedure performed in order to prevent her from having any more children. Ashe has had two more children since the death of her baby daughter Destiny Ashe in 1998.
The premature infant had been hospitalized for weeks and was killed two days after going home to her mother. Ashe told police the child simply stopped breathing.Local media reports that there are multiple fathers of the seven children, but conflicting reports as to how many. There is no indication that the father is present in the home with Ashe currently.Ashe, who has no prior criminal history or complaints of abuse, could have been sentenced to 20 years in prison on pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter defined as a killing committed with a sudden, violent irresistible passion after the assailant has been provoked.
Instead, Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes ordered Ashe to serve five years on probation and to have the tubal ligation within three months. If she doesn't comply, prosecutors can try her on the initial murder charge.
The judge questioned Ashe to make sure she was voluntarily agreeing to the procedure.
"It was her choice to go forward," said Jan Hankins, director of the Fulton County conflict defender's office, which represented the mother.
Two of Ashe's children are living with her mother, while four are in state custody, Howard said. Her oldest child ran away from home, he said.
I'm set to be on around the bottom of the hour (Fox News Channel - 8P ET/5P PT), in what the producer describes as the longest segment of the program.
O'Reilly tapes during the 6P hour, so I ought to be back home in time to watch and live-blog it here.
Fello Freeper on O'Reilly tonight!
Blogger, Pro Life, Activism ping!
Break a leg!!!
Thanks for the ping!
Good luck, brush up on the facts of the forced sterilization experiments that occured in South Carolina. Also you have a good jab at Planned Parenthood, it was Sanger who was the matriarch of the forced sterilization plans in the Old South and New Hampshire.
Don't let Bill bark you down, get loud, speak quick, don't give him the microsecond he needs to cut you off.
Thanks for the head's up.....I'll be watching! :-)
You always do so well on T.V.;I'm looking forward to catching you tonight ! :-)
I listened a little bit last night when Judge Napalitano was on and he was exactly right - its abortion/anti-life madness taken beyond birth. Rights of the country are conferred upon one when they are born. Thats the damn law. In this case thsis judge made a horrifying and frightening decsision that a 5 week old's life is not as worthy as someone else. This judge should be removed from the bench immediately.
You're right. I didnt' see much about it in the local unrinal constipation.
I'm not exactly sure what her sterilization is supposed to accomplish; protect the children she might otherwise yet have? That's pretty expensive protection, from their point of view.
>>>You always do so well on T.V.
Bump Bump!
Matter of fact, I'm signing off to start dinner so I have time to watch!
I say sterilize anyone who kills a child. Having said that, I predict this sterilization will never be upheld by higher courts.
Welcome to the fringe Michael....hope you stay!
Good for you. That's what Mickey Mantle used to do at the AllStar game.
So is Jan Hankins 'gonna be the one arguing for the maniac-mom
Good luck from Columbus Ga home girl.
Seven children by multiple fathers. She obviously can't control herself. She's had the chance.
And the suffering of the 5-week old - and her other children.
Best to stop this production line.
Maybe she should be sent to jail AND sterilized?
See you later,my FRiend! :-)
Ashe, who has no prior criminal history or complaints of abuse...
Just found that interesting.
The judge questioned Ashe to make sure she was voluntarily agreeing to the procedure...If she doesn't comply, prosecutors can try her on the initial murder charge.
Doesn't strike me as voluntary under the circumstances. It actually reminds me a little bit of Sophie's Choice--just a tiny little bit. What a cruel thing to do to a woman, no matter how heinous her actions may have been.
I'm in complete agreement with whomever asserted earlier in the thread..."Just damn."
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