Given the people that obey O'Reilly it's no surprise
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O'Reilly's Web site encourages people to protest the plea bargain by e-mailing Howard's spokesman, Erik Friedly."We've received a lot of e-mails a lot," Friedly said. "Many contained racial epithets and foul language. I quit looking at them. And I've gotten racial, foul, angry phone calls."
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"I think it raises the question about being truthful and reporting a story honestly," Howard said.
Calls, e-mails hammer DA on sterilization case
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/18/05
Fulton prosecutors are being bombarded by heated e-mails and calls after a recent plea deal that allowed a mother charged with murdering her newborn to walk away with probation.
First, Carisa Ashe, 34, who has seven other children, agreed to have a tubal ligation, which involves cutting and tying the fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy. Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes ordered Ashe to serve five years of probation for voluntary manslaughter in the 1998 death.
What the public didn't know is that the lead detective and a Fulton County medical examiner had their doubts 5-week-old Destiny was murdered.Conflicting opinions on whether Ashe killed her child surfaced as early as the autopsy and still linger.
Local and national news outlets quickly broadcast details about the unusual plea bargain the first known criminal case in Georgia in which a woman agreed to undergo sterilization to avoid prison. Dozens of people have questioned whether the plea bargain was ethical, constitutional or too lenient.
A national morning TV show requested an interview with prosecutors, and national radio and television personality Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly criticized Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard's handling of the case.
O'Reilly's Web site encourages people to protest the plea bargain by e-mailing Howard's spokesman, Erik Friedly.
"We've received a lot of e-mails a lot," Friedly said. "Many contained racial epithets and foul language. I quit looking at them. And I've gotten racial, foul, angry phone calls."
Howard said many don't know the facts of the case. "When people heard the tubal ligation part, they thought we forced her to do it," he said.
Others erroneously believed the woman had a history of violence and had beaten the child to death.
"I think it raises the question about being truthful and reporting a story honestly," Howard said. "People are thinking we did not fight for this child. It's difficult to imagine how hurtful that is when it's far from the truth."
