December 6, 2005
I'LL GET YOU YET, MY PRETTY:
Mom seeks to euthanize girl she gave up (Adam Gorlick, December 6, 2005, ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Allison Avrett's photos show her daughter Haleigh as a smiling little girl with brown bangs hanging over her squinting eyes.
Those pictures were taken before Mrs. Avrett gave up Haleigh for adoption five years ago, and long before the purported beating that landed the 11-year-old in a hospital attached to the ventilator and feeding tube. [...]
Mrs. Avrett, who gave up her parental rights when she let her sister adopt Haleigh in 2000, says her daughter should not suffer anymore.
Did Allison have a little dog she can kill too? Posted by Orrin Judd at December 6, 2005 12:46 PM
Comments
Wait a sec--I thought that there was a push to take Haleigh off the ventilator, which is not quite the same as euthanization.
In addition, this story involves Haleigh's step-father, who put her into the state she's in through massive and long-term abuse, wanting to keep her on life-support. Somehow I think he has his own interests at heart, not Haleigh's...
Posted by: b at December 6, 2005 1:11 PMI'm not sure the Wicked Witch is the right metaphor, as Dorothy is not her daughter... maybe Kronos?
Posted by: Just John at December 6, 2005 1:41 PMTo put it more clearly, everyone knows that people who abuse children like this will eventually do the same to innocent animals - and we can't have that, can we?
Posted by: obc at December 6, 2005 6:01 PM