March 29, 2005
Sex and Schiavo
One month before a registered sexual offender allegedly kidnapped, raped and murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, Florida law enforcement agencies had lost track of at least 1,800 other sexual offenders statewide, according to a review of Florida's Sexual Offender/Predator Registry.
Uh, here’s one, anyway...
As protests outside the hospice housing Terri Schiavo in her final days mounted last week, numerous newspaper reports, many based on an Associated Press account, mentioned or quoted 10-year-old Joshua Heldreth and/or his father, Scott Heldreth. Josh was one of several youngsters arrested for crossing police lines in Pinellas Park, Fla., in an effort to take water to Schiavo.None of the stories revealed that Scott Heldreth, a religious activist and anti-abortion crusader, is a registered sex offender in Florida-- until The Charlotte Observer mentioned it on Sunday.
A widely published AP story on Sunday by Allen G. Breen had painted a warmer picture of the Heldreths, noting that it was young Josh who insisted that his father take him to the protests from their home in North Carolina, not the other way around. “God’s with me,” Josh said.
The article continued: “Scott Heldreth, a veteran of the Operation Rescue and Operation Save America campaigns against abortion, didn't intend to join this fight, until his son asked to be brought to Pinellas Park.”My wife and I, we felt like if God really put it on his heart, we should come down, to allow him to live out what God had put on his heart,” says Heldreth, a carpenter.”
The story said some of the children at the protest carried signs accusing Terry Schiavo’s husband of murdering her and urging that he be sent to jail.
The Charlotte Observer story, however, revealed that Heldreth had pleaded guilty to sexual battery, was in jail for parts of 1992 and 1993, according to court records, and served time on probation.
Just a father passing along some hard earned knowledge of his trade to his son. See, handcuffs and paddy wagons tend to make a certain type of Christian girl like totally hot and horny:
Josh Heldreth was charged with trespassing after he tried to deliver the water to Schiavo, who has gone without food or water since March 18, when her feeding tube was removed by court order.Posted by Norwood at March 29, 2005 05:42 AMHe walked up to sheriff's deputies, carrying a plastic cup and ignored two requests to turn around. Deputies cuffed his hands behind his back and loaded him into a van with 14- year-old twin girls. At the courthouse, the three youngsters were photographed, fingerprinted and released.
``God's with me,'' Josh Heldreth said.
