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...
Judge Whittemore is a fraud on the bench.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB5BR2F6EE.html
Yes, I am still here. Obsessed people are entertaining.
Yes, I am still here. Obsessed people are entertaining.
You are entertaining. You are obsessed with diligent people doing the right thing. Seems a bit hard for you to handle.
You ridicule others because they won't submit to your complacency in accepting the wrongs of the court in the murder of a disabled young lady.
We don't know what tomorrow brings for any of us. The things other people fight for today - while we are complacent - may be the very thing that helps us in our time of need in the future.
I say 'thank you' to all the real champs - those that are fighting for justice. Real champs never move on until their mission is accomplished.
In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me -
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Stay entertained, we prefer to stand up for what is right.
Post 1184, was meant for you too, somehow it failed to ping you.
Now you're just being silly. Of course it's not my best argument, because I made none. You asked what all the fuss was about, and I told you. Touchy little thing, you are.
But it's an interesting question of principle, isn't it? Whether it matters or not if the judge presiding over a case is legally qualified to hold office. It's interesting, on principle, even in cases that have nothing to do with Terri or Mike Schiavo. So tell me, if you were in court would it matter to you if the judge hearing your case wasn't qualified to hold the office? I guess it wouldn't matter to some people, but to most it would. Which are you?
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Kevorkian also discussed the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose feeding tube was removed in March after her husband won a court order to allow her to die. Kevorkian said that had the woman's situation come up 10 years ago, he would have considered taking her as a patient.
Floriduh voter reminded me of The Empire Journal article on Not Dead Yet rally.
Disability Group To Rally At Supreme Court
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After reading your ridiculous posts, its obvious that others are wasting their time even addressing any to you. That said, there will always be a buffoon show up at times who is best ignored, hence you will not be addressed again by at least this freeper.
My first inclination would be to show contempt to the court by telling them, in dishonor of T. Heinz Kerry to shove it but the boy did a diplomatic backhand slap to the court. He met the letter of the sentence but not the spirit.
Since Terri worked days and Michael worked nights, maybe a girlfriend of Michael had a key to Terri's apartment. Maybe Michael's girlfriend, or an acquaintance of that girlfriend, entered the apartment and surprised/confronted Terri that night.
Perfect, lula!!
I wouldn't hold my breath on a police investigation. Wonder if anyone else investigating found evidence of third party. Just wonder because I have seen no speculation about that. Maybe some one can fill us in.
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I think it is a mistake to only look at Michael, especially since that approach ignites emotions which make a dispassionate examination more difficult.
If Michael can be suspected in any way, then someone else with a key to the apartment can be suspected, too.
I would think Michael, if he is innocent, should be willing to allow an investigation into the possibility of a third party having harmed Terri.
I agree, no one just colpases like this, there has to be a cause. You'd think if Shiavo was truly innocent he'd want to try to find the real cause of what happend to his wife. Just makes me even more so suspect him!
Please take me off your ping lists. I now have more than a dozen pings to this same thread in my comments. Thanks!! :)
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