Comments on: "She Was Hanging On For Daddy"

Girl, 10, Succumbs To Brain Cancer After Inmate Dad Gets One Last Visit

[angenrick]

anybody who judges people without knowing them or thier story is not worth the time of day!!!

[snow19599]

I think you all need to stop and think about this little girl God Bless her no matter what her daddy did she still loved him unconditionally and all she wanted was to spend her last days with him. He has almost served his whole sentance and under the circumstances I beleive that there is more the prison could of done for him. Yes he has done wrong but also we all at some time in our lives make mistakes and hopefully we learn from them and I hope and pray that he has to.

God Bless this little girls family and may you find peace and happiness in your lives. Coming from someone that has lost someone also I understand what you are going thru. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

[susanhelit]

Yaeger never asked for a get out of jail free card. He offered to do double the time, just to be there for his daughter. He asked to go to the halfway house he was already destined for a mere 4 months early to be there for her. He offered to take any restriction, any security measure they wanted (this is a guy who when they transferred him from one prison to another, they just put him on a public bus and let him ride alone, who resides in a prison with 2 foot high walls - not an escape risk nor a danger to anyone), just to let him see her. He''s shown his true colors - as have the prison officials who ignored the rules to keep him from his daughter''s deathbed.

[susanhelit]

The prison is unethical and refusing to follow the rules. They claim a 10 year old dying is not an extraordinary circumstance, to give themselves an excuse for not following the rules that say that in an "extraordinary circumstance", a furlough should be granted. I can''t think of any more extraordinary circumstance than a 10 year old dying.

Maybe the prison officials should be punished for not following the rules set down with as much compassion and humanity as they showed Jason Yaeger for his crime of not following the rules.


We are a sensible society. We know that sometimes something will happen that turns normal prison punishment into an inhumane torture that no one with any common sense and compassion thinks is a just punishment for the crime. And thus we''ve written rules to prevent this situation. The prison ignored those rules. They are in the wrong, unethical, and should be treated just as they think Jason should be treated for his infraction of the rules.

[susanhelit]

No person is worthless - what a sick point of view - obviously not from anyone with any belief in Jesus, that''s for sure - he believed in and hung around with society''s outcasts.

A lousy 20 minute visit, because the warden didn''t want the news media able to see it. Can you imagine as a parent, your child is dying, crying out for you from their deathbed, and you are restrained from being there, from holding their hand - you finally get a visit, and it''s 20 minutes? This is insanity! This is torture! And this is against the rules of our prison system that say that in this situation, he should have been let out to see his daughter, and return later to finish his sentence.

And plenty of people have taken drugs, gotten off of them, and become great successes - including many politicians on both sides of the aisle. Jason''s behavior - unlike the prison officials too lazy, callous, or scared to follow their own rules - throughout this has been honorable and correct - requesting only to be able to see her, be there for her last days on this planet, offering to serve double the time if only he could be there for her. He''s not tried to gain any benefit, just to be there for his daughter, within the rules set up in the prison system for exactly this.

[favrenot]

Thank God we all have a few more days of protection against this scourge of evil. "After careful review of the security needs of the community (read: how can we continue to protect the jobs of the prison system and expand the moral authority)...the warden determined a furlogh is not a vialbe option." Wonder if the same will hold true for all of the politicians and white collar crooks. Thank you for protecting us once again Big Brother.

[jen773]

Where did "rohink" and the rest of you get this info that he was selling or manufacturing or anything else? I didn''t even see what kind of drug conviction he had, just that it was for drugs. Meth is no the only drug out there folks. All I ever read was he was in prison on a drug conviction, so how can you talk about all the people he''s hurt or wronged in society? I think the biggest loser in the whole deal was Jayci.

[mjm117]

I think 1/2 these people must have found a lot more information then what was posted in this article based on some of these responses...or, they are just so full of themselves that whatever twist they want to add to it must be true to them. I haven''t seen anywhere that said he was a dealer. I haven''t see anywhere that he destroyed other lives (aside from maybe his and his families). People are so quick to pass judgement and point fingers. I would love to have your lives under a microscope...I wonder how many opinions and slanderous comments could be made about you.

[tpeks40]

Hey, he was, and still is, a low life. If he was using drugs, shame on him for ignoring his family like that. If he was producing and selling, how many families did he ruin or lifes did he destroy.

This isn''''t about the daughters, it''''s about this worthless drug user and/or dealer.


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Posted by TheGateway1




Yea, all those people who''s "lives he ruined" would never take drugs again if he stopped making them, right? The problem goes deeper than one guy cooking meth in his basement. Those people he was supplying simply had to go to the next dealer they knew for their fix. Wake up!

[termtex01]

"Not to say that dealing drugs is right but have any of you ever stopped to think that maybe he was selling to pay for all of the medical expenses? None of you know him personally enough to know why but yet you thin kthat you can bad mouth him for it!!

Posted by ladairmy at 05:04 PM : Mar 28, 2008"

Hey, he was, and still is, a low life. If he was using drugs, shame on him for ignoring his family like that. If he was producing and selling, how many families did he ruin or lifes did he destroy.

This isn''t about the daughters, it''s about this worthless drug user and/or dealer.

[jen773]

I don''t know if there was anythng unethical about this, but I do think it is wrong that the man is to be paroled to a halfway house in 4 months and has served over 2/3 of his sentence, wasn''t asking for early release, just to be there when his baby dies, and it didn''t happen. People who commit way worse crimes and parole sooner than that, or don''t go to prison at all, depending on who you are and how much money ya got for lawyers. Obviously this guy had a public defender and he did his job 4 years ago. I think the prison system spent more money hauling him down there and back 4 times than they would have putting him on "house arrest" and letting him spend the last couple of days with his daughter. What a system. Too bad he didn''t have OJ''s lawyer...

[tpeks40]

Exactly what kind of help do you propose for someone that decides to manufacture and sell a dangerous drug that has caused such destruction?

Posted by rohink


Obviously there''s not a quick fix, but how about spending the money wasted on housing prisoners on something constructive, like education and rehab? It would take a great deal of patience to eradicate drugs from our culture, something that won''t happen in our lifetime, but locking otherwise decent people up for committing a crime against themselves isn''t working. It''s a moral dilema, but certainly not criminal, and if we continue on the same path we''re on now, nothing will ever change. We''re losing the "war" on drugs, so lets re-evaluate our strategy.

[petefromnz]

"... unusual steps to be accommodating during this difficult time."

Twenty minutes at his dying daughter''s bedside? Four visits? A few phone calls? Shame!

[taylor2124]

"Unethical"??? HA HA The girl''s uncle is accusing the PRISON of being unethical?? The father is a drug dealer, but it''s the PRISON who is unethical???? HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAH LOL. I don''t know whether to laugh or cry when I read blame-shifting sh*t like this.

[jen773]

I think "rohink" needs to get a clue or do a little research. My boyfriend served 5 years in PRISON for distruting a quarter ounce of weed. So yes, they do put you in prison for weed, and how do you know what this dad was doing? Maybe he was selling the *** to make ends meet to support the daughter. Until you have been there or have a clue of what your saying you should shut up.

[ladairmy]

Not to say that dealing drugs is right but have any of you ever stopped to think that maybe he was selling to pay for all of the medical expenses? None of you know him personally enough to know why but yet you thin kthat you can bad mouth him for it!! And on top of that, some of you need to rethink your thoughts befor you speak. He wasn''t asking to be let free from everything, he was just asking that he be released to a lesser security facility where he would be able to go and visit his daughter and be there with her, he wasn''t doing it for his self...he was doing it for her. So all of you that have commented and said that he was in prision for a reason and that he deserved to not be released should be ashamed of yourself! That little girl was in so much pain holding on just to see her daddy and you say that was ok by you...OPEN YOUR EYES, it was about the little girl...not him! That''s what''s wrong with America today, no one ever looks at the big picture!

[guysdigdirt]

You just have to feel so sorry for that poor child, she did not cause him not to be there, she had to pay for it though.

[termtex01]

"I was incarcerated and I wasn''''t able to go to my Grandmother''''s funeral....

Posted by DWilber971 at 04:44 PM : Mar 28, 2008"

I''m sorry, but these sob stories just don''t cut it with me.

Yes, I feel for the family (that was by her side) during this ordeal.

However, I have no compassion for a man who, while his daughter is suffering from brain cancer, decides to escape the reality of it through illegal drug use, and then gets caught doing it and has to spend years in prison.

This should not be a story about that poor little girl who dies, it should be about the worthless life that is her father.

[mcv57]

I hope that the Angel of Death touched her father, and that his daugther''s life will not go in vain. God Bless, the Yaeger family in this hour of great lose.

[dwilber971]

I was incarcerated and I wasn''t able to go to my Grandmother''s funeral because it would have cost me seven thousand dollars for plane fare and overtime pay for two Marshal''s to escort me. The story we discuss in the joint is that the government earns money for each day you''re incarcerated so that''s why they want to keep you for a long time. My former case manager in prison had a sign on his door that said corrections is our business but rehabilitation is your responsibility. It''s a model based on punishing the offender and retribution rather than on trying to integrate them back into society. I think they should have let the guy go to the halfway house, but I''m not surprised they didn''t.