Replies to '10/25 Deadly Injustice'

Thank you so much for your condolences.  The people in Ada are some of the BEST PEOPLE IN THE WHOLE WORLD!  We have support coming from some unexpected places.   

  

Please visit www.SpiritofCaitlin.org to learn about what her Daddy and I are doing to honor Caitlin's life.  ON the site there is a link to the Oklahoma state legislature.  All you have to do is hit the link and you can go to Senator Paddack's email. 

  

Thanks for your help and your thougths for our family. 

Cindy Wooten 

Caitlin's StepMOM 

     

Speaking from past experience--one who has been stalked, whose family, home and animals have been threatened by a former neighbor and friend--I can speak to the fear this poor family is forced to endure. I am still not sure we are safe, and it's been 5 years since our stalker disappeared. We don't know if he's alive or dead; living near us, or in some other part of the world. I will never feel safe until I learn that man has died, and since I can't afford private investigators to learn if he's dead, that means I'll be skittish until the day I die. In the short run: Someone needs to purchase the homes of all the family members involved in this ugly and threatening situation, and help re-locate them out of the State of OK (providing them with different names, different employment, no paper trails left behind, no way to access them through paid P.I. websites, etc.) to keep anyone from finding them who may have been paid in advance to carry out threats of violence against all of them Next, all the phone records of the man who killed this teenager should be scrutinized. All of his friends, places he worked, places he frequented, acquaintances, etc. should be scrutinized to learn if he ever spoke to someone else (other than the man who's already in custody) about paying someone to follow through with his diabolical revenge threats. He was so spiteful--he may have had several back-up plans. There should be no form of protecting all the members of this family left undone. Until it can be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that no others were paid to harm any of them, they should not be where they can be found or traced. If it takes a year or two for them to be totally missing, then that's the way it should be... They should not have to live in fear like I do. In the long-run: Yes, there should be Law mandated in EVERY state that requires anyone who makes a threat of physical harm against another to be held without bail long enough to be scrutinized for any evidence of threats of violence, all the way back to early childhood. And even if no other evidence is located, a threat such as that should require the individual to be evaluated by medical professionals and forced to go through anger management and other forms of behavioral modification programs for a term of NOT LESS THAN 6 months before even being allowed to make bail for the threat; and there should be an automatic fine for having made the threat in the first place! Unless we take EVERY violent threat to heart, and do something to alter the consciousnesses of these violent-speaking/violent-acting individuals, and determine when and if there IS evidence that they MAY be capable of violence BEFORE we allow them to walk the streets again, this kind of heartbreaking tragedy will continue. It's the only way we can stop tragedies BEFORE they happen, and the only way we can demonstrate to potential perpetrators of violence that our society will no longer give them the benefit of the doubt. Make a threat--GO TO JAIL, and then into at least a 6-month program while they're being treated, and their entire backgrounds are being checked in every state or country where they may have been. I know this sounds harsh, and before our stalker turned our quiet lives into a continuing nightmare, I might not have felt this strongly about potentially violating another's human rights, but I'd rather see one person's rights put on hold for a few months than to see innocent people slaughtered.