Thing
Oct 22 2007, 01:03 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21386988/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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rayzoredge
Oct 22 2007, 03:14 PM
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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Liam_CF
Oct 22 2007, 05:39 PM
Only in america would something like this happen. He was right to be charged, although it wasn't deliberate.
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truefusion
Oct 22 2007, 06:07 PM
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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mc05w37
Oct 23 2007, 01:04 AM
dude, that wa wicked.
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teknoTom
Oct 23 2007, 12:40 PM
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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Thing
Oct 25 2007, 04:59 PM
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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Lyon2
Oct 25 2007, 06:39 PM
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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chaosdesign
Oct 25 2007, 07:39 PM
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.
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happy_cube
Nov 8 2007, 09:21 PM
This is just sickening and shows why alcohol should have more restrictions on it.
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Above The Rest
Nov 13 2007, 06:06 AM
QUOTE(silver_wolves @ Nov 13 2007, 01:00 AM) There are some really sick b*stards in this world! Every day car crashes, murders, assassinations...where the hell are we going to? This isn't really that crazy. With new technologies there are new ways to kill, but people have been murdering for many millenia. We aren't becoming any more murderers than our forefathers.
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silver_wolves
Nov 13 2007, 06:00 AM
There are some really sick b*stards in this world! Every day car crashes, murders, assassinations...where the hell are we going to?
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Above The Rest
Nov 12 2007, 08:55 PM
No, it wouldn't only happen in America. Yes, it was his fault. No, he isn't a murderer. No, he shouldn't receive the maximum punishment possible.
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Lyon2
Nov 12 2007, 08:37 PM
anwiii, i am from Portugal (Europe) as you can see in my picture on the left side when you login of course. He killed his child, period, he took a life, and a young life, a child, just because he did not wanted to do it, it does not change the fact that he did, and know one knows if he really wanted to do it, to kill his child, you are asuming it, there people out there capable of anything, specially when they are drunk, and just because you can drink it does not mean you can abuse, and he has to pay for his irresponsible act that took a child life, the fact that the child it is his does not change the fact that it is a life, so imagine it was your child he was driving to your house, imagine he was a friend of your and you trusted him. There are many perspectives, many ways to see it, in my way, life is just the way it should be, perhaps people will think 100 times before drink heavy, and another 100 times before driving after drinking a lot, and more 100 times before driving with alchool and with a child in the car, you just think about it.
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Tetraca
Nov 9 2007, 12:39 PM
Keelhauling is barbaric by itself, but on land? This guy is just crazy and having that enhanced by an opiate, and not only that, he's being a dip for all of us because now people are going to call for tougher restrictions on alcohol. I guaruntee you, if this were any other drug (let's say a new drug), congress would be all over it and ban it, but since this is alcohol, it gets a by. At least they don't defacate on the constitution's seperation of federal and state laws with alcohol's status.
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