Inmate Has Brief Visit With Dying Daughter

Warden Grants Him Supervised Half-Hour At Her Bedside

(CBS)  The imprisoned father of a ten-year-old girl in the apparent final stages of a battle with brain cancer was allowed to have a half-hour, supervised visit with her Wednesday, according to CBS affiliate KMTV in Lincoln, Neb.

Jayci Yeager's last wish was to see Jason Yaeger, but the warden of a federal prison camp in South Dakota, where Jason has a year left on a five-and-a-half year, drug-related sentence, has been resisting Jason's efforts to be released early to a halfway-house to enable him to spend more time with Jayci.

The warden had granted Jason two other brief, escorted trips.

Jayci is in a Lincoln hospice.

Jayci's family members say they believe she knew Jason was there Wednesday, because they noted a spike in her heart rate during the visit.

Jason has gone so far as to appeal to President Bush for clemency. His case is pending before a federal judge.

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KMTV says, "The general public is invited to visit and pass along their thoughts on Jayci's personal Web pages, on www.CarePages.com. Search for "JayciYaegersjourney."

To help the Yaeger family:

Jayci Yaeger Fund
Wells Fargo Bank
1248 "O" Street
Lincoln, Neb. 68508

To contact the Yaeger family:

C/O Yaeger Family
PO Box 5818
Lincoln, Neb. 68505-5818

[toolmangler-2009]

I don''''t have sympathy for anyone in jail.
Posted by klaviergrd at 01:26 PM : Mar 28, 2008



If a dying child asked you if she could see her Daddy before she died, Tell me, straight, would you tell her no, (if it were in your power tto grant the request)?

[ladairmy]

You all need to pull your head out and understand that the dad was not looking for pitty, he wanted to be there for his daughter!!! THIS IS ABOUT THAT BABY GIRL...the story is about her, not him so quit making it seem as if it''s anything different! And I agree, I hope that warden spends all of his hard times ALONE AND JUST AS SCARED AS THAT LITTLE GIRL WAS, all she wanted was her daddy by her side so that she could die in peace and that jerk took it from her...and he''s in charge of thousands of other lives, I feel sorry for them!

[texasllcv]

Here''s a really sad note...The poor little thing was diagnosed 7 years ago. What a shame her dad couldn''t stay clean back then since he had a daughter facing such a mountain. Or maybe the cancer diagnosis had something to do with why he was involved with drugs...God bless this precious little angel.

[klavergrd]

I agree with many that he did the crime, so serve the time. Now that this one has had visits, how many more costly requests will be granted for thieves and criminals "in the name of the family"? As a veteran that has missed many family births, deaths and other occassions, I don''t have sympathy for anyone in jail.

[bamiej]

I''m glad she got to see her father one last time. So sorry to her family for their loss.

[vapelloni]

This little angle has now gone to heaven. May God enbrace her. I have two thoughts: 1) May her family find piece in the fact her suffering is over, And 2) when it is that warden''s time to pass away, I hope he is all ALONE!!!!

[gopack443]

There is a real simple way to decide if he should be allowed to move to a halfway house.
Ask this victim!
And if there isn''t one to ask why is he in prison in the first place?

[gopack443]

There is a real simple way to decide if he should be allowed to move to a halfway house.
Ask this victim!
And if there isn''t one to ask why is he in prison in the first place?

[mamba_dude]

What a terribly sad story. It is a shame that a convict was allowed out of prison to visit a dying family member. I have no idea about the numbers, but I believe it''s safe to assume that many, many prisoners lose loved ones every day. Should we now make exceptions for those prisoners as well? And for you people who think drug laws do more harm than the drugs-- Pull your head out and stop your idiocy. If people were a little less willing to tolerate illicit behavior and coddle those who break the law, we wouldn''t have the problems we have. I REALLY hate to agree with Senator Clinton, but it truly does "Take a Village"

[runningralph]

Drug abuse is a terrible thing. It is prevalent is our society to the point that people are afraid to stand up and condemn it for fear that their condemnation will have bad consequences for themselves. It was drug abuse that deprived this poor child of a father.