What a farce. It wasn't enough for Schiavo to starve Terri to death. Now he claims to "own" her name. Her family is only trying to prevent other people from being starved to death.
Michael Schiavo has threatened to sue the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation for using his wife's name, to which he claims to have an exclusive right, according to a Tampa Bay CBS affiliate, WTSP-Channel 10. Schiavo also accused the Schindlers, who began the Foundation during the battle to care for their disabled daughter before she was starved to death at Michael's behest, of profiteering off Terri's name.
Michael Schiavo first engaged in legal battles with the Schindler family in his efforts to remove the feeding tube from his brain-damaged wife, Terri Schiavo, in 2004 and 2005. Due to his success after a protracted legal battle, she died of dehydration fourteen days after the feeding tube was removed. Michael Schiavo was living with another woman at the time, with whom he had fathered two children.
The Terri Schindler Schiavo foundation, led by Terri's brother Bobby Schindler, is dedicated to "helping persons with disabilities, and the incapacitated who are in or potentially facing life-threatening situations." It was founded in 2001 originally to aid in the fight for Terri's life.
A report by WSTP's Mike Deeson recounts that Michael Schiavo claimed Terri would be, in Deeson's words, "horrified" to know what her family was doing with her name. The story goes on to imply that the family mishandles the money that the foundation raises, because the majority of it is used for salaries.
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