 Drunk Dad Kills Daughter By Dragging Her Behind Pickup |
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 Oct 22 2007, 01:03 PM
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Newbie [Level 3]  Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: 6-September 07 From: England Member No.: 49,488  |
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QUOTE Dad charged in 9-year-old girl's sledding death After drinking, man pulled daughter in an inner tube behind pickup truck VANCOUVER, Wash. - Authorities charged a man Friday with vehicular homicide in a sledding accident that killed his 9-year-old daughter last winter. Peter Gecho was pulling the girl, Madison, in an inner tube behind his pickup truck when the tube slammed into a low brick wall Jan. 16, according to Clark County Superior Court documents. Witnesses told police Gecho had been drinking and that the girl was not wearing a helmet, prosecutors contend. The inner tube was attached to the truck by a rope as Gecho drove along snowy country roads to Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Senior Deputy Prosecutor James David wrote in a probable cause affidavit. Several other people were in the bed of the truck. On the school grounds, Gecho revved the engine and began spinning "doughnuts" as the tube sailed behind. The tube slammed against a low brick wall at an estimated 20 mph, killing the girl. An 18-year-old man also riding in the tube soared over the wall and suffered only bruises. Gecho's lawyer, Thomas Phelan, called the charge "a travesty." He said his client is innocent and would never have deliberately harmed Madison. "This was nothing but a tragic accident," he said. "His life has been, as one might expect, incredibly empty since his daughter died. This simply adds to the emptiness." Even if the guy wasn't drunk, it's pretty clear that dragging your nine-year-old daughter on a sled attached to your pick-up truck while you're drunk is an incredibly dumb idea. He obviously wouldn't have intended to kill his daughter though, but isn't being reckless enough intent in the eye of the law? |
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Oct 22 2007, 03:14 PM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 537 Joined: 26-January 06 From: New Durham, NH Member No.: 17,651 myCENT:64.22 |
The world makes me sick.
Some of these people seriously are either unfit to be parents or shouldn't be breeding anyway. Adding an overrated, underestimated substance into the mix doesn't help at all. I hope he gets the maximum punishment he can get. And I have no sympathy, because if he was such an innocent person open to accidents and impaired judgment, he would have known to not drink excessively around his children. Or even at all. And if he was an upstanding individual with this one slip-up, I'm sure he still deserves the guilt on his head for choosing to drink around his kids plus the legal punishment bestowed on him. And lawyers really need to look inside their own black hearts to see how they can live to defend such scum (if he was really unfit to be a parent). Gah. |
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Oct 22 2007, 05:39 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 403 Joined: 14-October 07 From: ERROR 404 Member No.: 51,575 |
Only in america would something like this happen.
He was right to be charged, although it wasn't deliberate. |
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Oct 22 2007, 06:07 PM
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Ephesians 6:10-17  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,978 Joined: 22-June 05 From: somewhere... Where am i? Member No.: 8,528 myCENT:18.27 |
If he really cared about his daughter, wouldn't he have turned himself in instead of hiring a lawyer? He must really be sorry about his daughter's death by letting a lawyer deal with this.
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Oct 23 2007, 01:04 AM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 66 Joined: 17-October 07 From: Canada Member No.: 51,664 |
dude, that wa wicked.
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Oct 23 2007, 12:40 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 1-October 07 Member No.: 50,972 |
QUOTE(mc05w37 @ Oct 22 2007, 09:04 PM)  dude, that wa wicked. You know, with the way you said it, it sounded like you were saying it was good?? |
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Oct 25 2007, 04:59 PM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: 6-September 07 From: England Member No.: 49,488 |
QUOTE(rayzoredge @ Oct 22 2007, 04:14 PM) And lawyers really need to look inside their own black hearts to see how they can live to defend such scum (if he was really unfit to be a parent). Some people wouldn't mind, aslong as there's some sort of pay check, I guess. |
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Oct 25 2007, 06:39 PM
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The Ethical Hacker Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,226 Joined: 27-May 05 From: Portugal (Europe) Member No.: 7,566 myCENT:25.66 |
That is horrible, the man should be arrested for life minimum, not to say that the death penalty would be soft stuff for him, killing is child is just something way behond anything that even the devil in person would do.
I do not like to hear news like this, it just scares me like a father that i want to be, i just can not imagine that there are people out there capable of anything, i just can not beleave it too, nonetheless, there are, and plenty of them, perhaps even worst, that is just the human nature! |
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Oct 25 2007, 07:39 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 26-September 07 From: Blenheim NZ Member No.: 50,700 |
There are several aspects to this case.
The first is the guy Consumed Alcohol, then preceded to drive his Pickup while drunk. The second is that through his own actions has ended the life of his 9 year old daughters life. Regardless if it was intentional or by accident, he shouldn't have been driving the pick-up while intoxicated, and if he didn't drive the pickup his daughter would still be alive. If this guy gets off, then anyone who kills some one while DIC, would have the same argument. in saying all this the fact of the matter is that he killed his daughter while driving his pickup while drunk. There is no excuse for that. |
