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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:37 PM
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Stepdad seeks life support for 11-year-old he allegedly beat into a coma
Wonder which way the Fundies will go on this one:

"BOSTON - The stepfather of an 11-year-old girl went to Massachusetts' highest court on Tuesday hoping to block the state from taking her off life support.

If the girl dies, he could face a murder charge for taking part in the beating that left her comatose.

Haleigh Poutre was hospitalized in September after her stepfather and adoptive mother kicked her and beat her nearly to death with a baseball bat..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10349294/
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:38 PM
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1. One has to wonder
if his motives are pure--or is he merely trying to escape a murder charge?
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:44 PM
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9. Of course its to escape the murder charge.
What loving parent or step parent beats the shit out of a child with a baseball bat? Poor kid. Abandoned by her mother and apparently lived a life of hell with these two jerks, only to be beaten into a coma. He needs to go to prison and into the general population.
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:56 PM
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12. Oh yeah, gen. pop. for this monster! He might not last a day,
but it would be a day he has earned...
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:38 PM
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2. hey, clever. no death, no murder charge. nice parents.
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:39 PM
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3. Sorry Dad ... you lost the right to make decisions for her ...
the moment you hit her with a baseball bat! I hope someone steps in and does what's best for the poor girl. :-(
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:44 PM
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7. I feel so bad
Is anybody else helping her or just the stepdad involved? :cry: Poor little one.
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jackster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:39 PM
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4. There's also a poll...
whether or not she should be removed from life support

Currently 89% yes
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greenman3610 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:40 PM
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5. look at the picture
the banal face of evil.
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ohio_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:40 PM
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6. OMG, look at the the sentence about his lawyer
"His lawyer, John Egan, has insisted his client isn't motivated by the chance he could be charged with murder if the girl dies. "

Yeah right!
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Sweet Freedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:44 PM
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8. More
"Within two weeks of being charged with assault and battery, the adoptive mother, Holli Strickland, who was also Haleigh's aunt, was found dead alongside her grandmother in a possible murder-suicide. "
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:45 PM
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10. Oh wow!
Did the stepfather murder them??
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:47 PM
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11. Why don't they just take him out back
And shoot him in the head.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:56 PM
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13. This isn't the first case of this
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 01:58 PM by MountainLaurel
Actually, there have been several:

http://www.atsnn.com/story/108157.html
http://www.metnews.com/articles/chri022503.htm

Such situations present a huge dilemma for the legal system: If someone is charged in injuring someone, should that person also have say over whether the victim is kept alive?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:12 PM
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14. I wonder if the fuckwad is being funded by the
fundies . . . this should get the "death penalty" types in hot water with the "Schiavo"-istas looking for their next war . . .
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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:12 PM
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15. first her real parents abandon her, then her adopters beat her brainless
Some day, we'll stop viewing children as transferrable property. We'll also stop allowing adults to assault and batter kids as punishment and "discipline".

Hope I live to see it...
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hippiegranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:15 PM
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16. god, what an awful story
so sad...
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:24 PM
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17. depends if it is our taxes paying for it or the individual
and since i can guess this man cannot afford forever care of this child, i am going ot guess the state is paying. i fhte state is paying then tough shit, cause our tax money shouldnt go to saving lives. lives are only saved when it costs us nothing

i say the right will say,..... pull the plug
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 04:26 PM
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18. Where is Bill Frist? n/t
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