Topic : 03/16 Cheerleader Scandal

Brandi is TOTALLY guilty for killing Daniel. She went into her parents bedroom and took the car keys WITHOUT permission, which is theft! She NEVER asked to take the keys. Her father says that he's a light sleeper and he would have heard Brandi taking the keys, which doesn't add up right. Now, that Brandi's 17 and served about 3 years of her 12 year sentence, she was only about 13 years old when this happened. A 13-year-old should never be behind a wheel of a motorized vehicle, when he/she is not in the age of majority to drive. 

Brandi's story does NOT add up right. She says that after she hit him she never noticed that the wind shield was damanged until she got home and tried to lie to her parents about it before she confessed. When she got home, she put part of a tree in the wind shield to make it look like a tree busted the wind shield.  

I sympathize with Daniel's family, even though I don't know what it's like to lose a sibling or a child, but I do know what it's like to lose a parent. I know how they feel!!!!! 

now i am not going to take sides on this because i have not read the police reports or anything, but i am going to comment on being a driver, who has hit a person by accident. 

my side of the story: 

I was driving to camus during college and hit a boy who was walking in the middle of the road.  it was dusk, i didn't see him.  i was not going fast, and it was ruled by the police as a "No Fault" situation. basically i had done nothing wrong. he was alright at first, released from the hospital in a matter of hours, however then "problems" seemed to arise. a person has 24 months after an inccident to file civil claim.  he waited 23 months and then filed.  he suied myself and my parents.  over a year later, my insurance company chose to settle with him for $40,000, it was cheaper than going to trial. 

while my situation is very different, i will say that there is a huge amount of hysteria after being in a car accident of that magnitude. whether Brandi spends the rest of her life in jail or not, is not going to change the horror that is in her head.  the person i hit is okay, and $40,000 richer, but i STILL haven't gotten over it. 

so to all of you from the aspect of a driver who has hit someone, please pray for peace for both families, becasue this will never end for either group of people. hopefully the families will learn to express thier grief in ways that will make a difference for people in the future. 

Bless you all 

I cannot believe how ignorant and selfish Brandi's parents are. The showed no decency to the fact that this family has lost a child forever, and they attacked his family to no end. They had no right to say that Daniel's mother was not in his life for 5 years....that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they are suffering immensely for what their daughter did to their family. 

They got very defensive when his family said that at least they can spend Birthdays with their daughter, and talk to her.....they responded with "NO WE CAN'T!"..........YES THEY CAN!!! In 8 years they can sit down and have a coffee with their daughter everyday if they wanted, while Daniel's will never be able to!!! What don't these IGNORANT people understand about that?????? 

I am immensely disgusted in them and their selfishness....shame on them. Do they not find it a LITTLE suspicious how their daughter was sane enough to drive home and stick a TREE LIMB in the hole in the windshield that was caused upon impact with Daniel...sounds like someone who is guilty to me. I cannot emphasize how angry I am with that family right now, they obviously have never experienced a death of someone very dear to them.