Remember Terri Schiavo? The Terri Schiavo case was a highly publicized and politicized 7-year legal battle regarding the removal of the feeding tube for a woman in a persistent vegetative state. Well, her name is back in the news after the North Country Gazette has linked her to an accused steroid dealer. The newspaper sought to prove that only a few degrees of separation separate Americans from a steroid dealer and the subject of an infamous legal battle is no exception.
Apparently, Terri Schiavo’s husband’s brother’s son bought steroids from the Philadelphia Police Detective accused of being the ringleader of a nationwide steroid distribution enterprise involving Sciroxx brand steroids and human growth hormone. William Schiavo, the newphew of Terri Schiavo’s husband, was one of the co-defendants named in a federal indictment.
The relevance of linking Terri Schiavo to a steroid dealer seems like little more than an attempt to demonize the mother of William Schiazo. According to the North Country Gazette, not only was her legal testimony what condemned Terri Schiavo to death by dehydration but she is also the mother of a steroid dealer.
William J. Schiavo, 29, of Philadelphia, nephew of Michael Schiavo, the man who sought and obtained court permission to kill his disabled wife by dehydration, has been charged with two counts of possessing anabolic steroids with the intent to distribute and faces up to 10 years in federal prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
Schiavo, now an accused drug dealer, is the son of Michael Schiavo’s brother William and wife Joan Schiavo.
Testimony given by Joan Schiavo, portrayed by her brother-in-law Michael Schaivo as a “somewhat ditzy” individual, was accepted as clear and convincing evidence in a Florida probate court before Judge George Greer and led to the March 2005 death of Terri Schiavo, an innocent disabled Florida woman sentenced to die by dehydration after Greer ordered that her feeding tube be removed and that she not be given any natural food or water, a violation of Florida statutes.
The Terri Schiavo case was a major political event for pro-life organizations that involved numerous appeals, petitions and hearings in local, state and federal court; several changes and state and federal legislation; Congressional involvement; Supreme Court involvement; and even emergency legislation signed by former President George W. Bush.
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