This is beyond wrong!!

[cutie pie]

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The lawyer for a Texas driver accused of hitting a homeless man, then leaving him embedded in her windshield to die, said his client isn't a "monster."

Attorney Mike Heiskell said Chante Mallard was simply a "frightened, emotionally distraught young woman" who panicked and made a wrong choice.

He said the 25-year-old nurse's aide is guilty only of failing to stop and render aid -- not murder.

Mallard is charged with murder. She's accused of hitting the man and driving home with him stuck in her broken windshield. Police said she'd been drinking and using the drug Ecstasy.

Authorities said Chante Mallard hit Gregory Biggs with her car in October, drove home with him stuck in her broken windshield, and then ignored his cries as he bled to death in her garage. Investigators said Mallard apologized to the man as she ignored his cries for help. Police said Mallard, with the help of friends, dumped his body in a park.

"I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough to say. Heartless? Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined inhumanity here," a prosecutor in Fort Worth told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the October 2001 incident.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit quoted by the Star-Telegram, the woman who tipped off police said she, Mallard and several other women were at a party Feb. 15 when Mallard brought up the accident.

It said she told of hitting a man while driving under the influence of alcohol and Ecstasy, Mallard giggled and remarked that after the accident she had sex with a friend at her home, the paper reported the affidavit says.

The paper reported that Mallard told friends that she planned to burn the car and buy a new one after she received her income tax refund.

The son of the homeless man said he has some questions.

Biggs had struggled with mental illness and had been staying at a homeless shelter, where workers said he often brought them flowers. He was estranged from his family.

Relatives said Biggs' 19-year-old son, Brandon, only recently found out about his father's death. He told the Star-Telegram that he wants to talk to Mallard, to get a "better understanding."

The son said he prays for Mallard, and isn't angry.

The mother of the victim, Meredith Biggs, said she wonders how the woman could have let him die the way he did. She told the newspaper that she wants to know why Mallard didn't call for help after the drugs wore off.

Mallard is charged with murder. She was released Wednesday from jail on a $10,000 writ bond.

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She went inside and had sex while a man was dying in her garage!!! wtf?? I just don't understand people sometimes.

 

[Samael]

Sounds to me like this woman has mental problems of her own. I am outraged to hear aboutthis incident. But anymore nothing surprises me. I myself was living on the streets after graduating from High School, and witnessed many acts of cruelty to the homeless people. Since then, I have to tried to help out as much as possible. Thank you for sharing this with us.

 

[RavenStorm]

Crap like that makes no sense at all. And her lawyers do not want her charged with murder. What they just want to give her a slap on the wrist and pat her head and say that everything is okay that one homeless man does not matter? Now we all know that if it was someone high and powerful she would be sitting on death row right now.

 

[cutie pie]

I work in the legal field and I have observed that our justice system is anything but just. I can say with great certainty that I could never defend someone that I knew to be guilty. . .the thought makes me ill! I would imagine they will try to use an insanity defense, but it's obvioius she knew damned well what she was doing.

 

[Samael]

Of course she knew what she was doing, otherwise she wouldn't have hid the body and planned to burn her car and get a new one.

I also agree with Ravenstorm, if it was a poloiticans kid they would already have her in court by now. Just becasue a person isn't rich, doesn't mean their not a person too. Sorry, soap box.

 

[Cheyenne]

I heard that story on the radio yesterday morning. Not only did she just let him bleed to death on her windshield, she let him there for TWO DAYS before she talked friends into helping her dispose of the body. She was caught because people got suspicious and asked why she wasn't driving her car anymore.

 

[lovetoread]

The thing that gets me is the time it took him to die.

He begged her to help him.

She apologized but wouldn't call anyone. That is not right in anyone's book.

And let me tell you,there is no friend that I have,that I would help dispose a body with.

 

[LukkyKnight]

One hopes she's contemplating a career change, possibly becoming the poster child for Ecstasy.

 

[Mensa]

My mini sermon

It does give pause to wonder what we've become. It reminds me of two similarly callous and inhuman incidents, the one in Texas where they tied the black man to the rear bumper of the pickup truck and dragged him to his death and the case in Wisconsin, I believe it was, where they left the gay man strung up on a wire fence to die.

What has this world become that we could engender such acts? Do we not teach love, kindness, care, and consideration for others anymore. Or is it because the notion of "Love thy neighbour" and "Treat others as you yourself would wish to be treated" are part of that vile monstrosity known as religion? Some claim we can live without spirituality but it doesn't look like we're doing a very good job of it.

 

[LipstickKitten]

Bravo, Mensa. You couldn't have said it better, IMO.

So many people spit out the word "religion" as if it were a spoiled piece of meat. The good old U.S. of A. was founded by religious people. Just look at our currency.

Our forefathers must be turning over in their graves.

 

[cutie pie]

I was talking with someone about this whole thing this morning. I cannot fathom spending two days. . .48 hours. . .watching someone die without doing a thing to help him. Did she really think that apologizing to him would absolve her of her "sins"??

Have we (meaning society in general) become so callous that we can't comprehend the value of human life?

 

[alltherage]

In a way she did what much of society would like to do with the homeless. Not to kill them of course, but certainly to ignore them and make them go away. It is a sad thing but in my life I cannot tell you the number of times i have seen people turn there backs on homeless people. Many of these people have been abandoned so many times its inconcievable. This was the ultimate abandonment.

Something about this case brought to mind lynchings. I flashed on the sight of some poor person being hung while a drunken crowd treated their death like a carnaval event. I saw a picture of a lynching once that made me sick. Their were children in the crowd and they were laughing.

This woman, barring some derangement, is the worst kind of killer. Heartless does not do her justice. She must have the deadest of souls. I wonder how many time she worried about the blood staining her car. More than once would be my guess. To die in fear and pain with potential help inches away, to see the rejection in her eyes, can only be discribed as the cruelest of faits. I hope the victim is at peace and I hope this woman pays.

 

[Samael]

I think a lot of out problems stem from two things.

1.) As Mensa put it lack of religion. Now I am not Catholic or Christian, but still the majority of all religions teach the same things.

2.) Lack of discipline for the children of this era. Everyone has becmoe scared of disciplining their children. So they run wild and get away with whatever they want to.

 

[cutie pie]

I think a lot of out problems stem from two things.

1.) As Mensa put it lack of religion. Now I am not Catholic or Christian, but still the majority of all religions teach the same things.

2.) Lack of discipline for the children of this era. Everyone has becmoe scared of disciplining their children. So they run wild and get away with whatever they want to.

Ooohhhh - this is getting off of the topic at hand, but, Dunchad, I agree with you 100%. Especially regarding parents and children in today's society. Parents seem to want to push the blame onto somebody else. . .be it the school, the church, the daycare, or just society in general. . .It is much easier to do that then to spend the time it takes to instill morals and values into your own children. I had someone once tell me that she would rather send her kids off to a state run school because after working fulltime and then helping the kids with homework, etc. she just had no time for herself. Talk about selfish!!

 

[Samael]

I still am shocked over this though. Damn 2 whole days and not evening caring. Well, I know that when her time comes she will have to face this poor man in the afterlife and explain to him why she did what she did and it will his decision as to her punishment in hell.

 

[SweetBrat73]

Society is partly to blame for parents being afraid to be disciplining their children. I said partly..."society" doesn't want you smacking your kids because it's abusive. I would rather see a kid get smacked on the butt or hand every now and then, than to see them shooting classmates or running over ppl!!! Parents need to start taking back their rights to raise their children...instead of allowing the judgemental assholes who don't have kids telling them what's best!!!

This woman that did this makes me sick!!! I seriously hope she doesn't get off due to an insanity plea!!! She wasn't insane...she was fucking high. Drugs should not be an excuse to commit murder or any other crime. "They didn't know what they were doing because they were under the influence of drug." That's total bullshit!!! People know these drugs are illegal...don't fucking do them. I have nothing against ppl getting high...as long as they are at home with no kids around. Then if something still happens...like you pull a gun out and shoot somebody...your ass should be in jail.

This woman will probably get off with some shit like probation and have to go through a drug and alchol abuse treatment center. Just cause the guy was a "nobody". And whoever said that if it had been somebody who was in power or rich or had "connections" was right. The woman would have been hauled off to jail and trial would have been quick and she'd either die for her crime or spend her life in jail. Just cause this man was a "nobody" in the eyes of most shouldn't make his life any less important. He was a man after all.


Brat

 

[SweetBrat73]

Just as a side note...if you're on drugs prescribed by a doctor then I could see how could affect judgement and perception. I still don't think you could be able to commit murder and get away with it. But that's something else all together and punishments should be different in the case of something prescribed by a doc and street drugs.


Brat

 

[cutie pie]

I will be truly disappointed if they even mention that the victim was a homeless person. He was a person just like you or I.

I would only hope that they consider the fact that she stood by and did nothing for two days when it comes time for sentencing and that they lock her up and throw away the key.

 

[cutie pie]

Just as a side note...if you're on drugs prescribed by a doctor then I could see how could affect judgement and perception. I still don't think you could be able to commit murder and get away with it. But that's something else all together and punishments should be different in the case of something prescribed by a doc and street drugs.


Brat

I can acknowledge that she was not in her "right" mind when the "accident" occurred. . .though she should NOT have been driving in her condition. . .not that I consider that to be a just excuse or a plausible defense. But, she was NOT drunk/high/stoned during the next 48 hours when she allowed him to die. I just cannot fathom that!! I cannot comprehend watching an innocent person die for no reason.

 

[Samael]

Let us all hope and pray that the DA on this case has the balls and the courage to go after her with everything that have. And sentence her to the fullest. I am all for justice and also feel that the justice of the USA is lacking at times. I just hope that the surviving family of this poor man will be present at her trail and can help to make a difference and make sure that the jury sees that he was a man just like any other. He just lived on the streets.

 

[sch00lteacher]

Ooohhhh - this is getting off of the topic at hand, but, Dunchad, I agree with you 100%. Especially regarding parents and children in today's society. Parents seem to want to push the blame onto somebody else. . .be it the school, the church, the daycare, or just society in general. . .It is much easier to do that then to spend the time it takes to instill morals and values into your own children. I had someone once tell me that she would rather send her kids off to a state run school because after working fulltime and then helping the kids with homework, etc. she just had no time for herself. Talk about selfish!!

See Dunchad, nice people. Post, but have something to say. Your doing great. Keep it up.

 

[Samael]

Thank you sch00lteacher.

 

[RawHumor]

Society is partly to blame for parents being afraid to be disciplining their children. I said partly..."society" doesn't want you smacking your kids because it's abusive. I would rather see a kid get smacked on the butt or hand every now and then, than to see them shooting classmates or running over ppl!!! Parents need to start taking back their rights to raise their children...instead of allowing the judgemental assholes who don't have kids telling them what's best!!!

I agree totally. Too many people think that they have the "right" to tell you that you can't spank your kid. When I see a kid throwing a tantrum at a store because he/she wants a toy I always wonder how the parent will react.

Not to sound sexist, but remember the days of "Just wait until your father gets home!"? In my youth, if you heard that you felt like dead man walking!

It all comes down to people not wanting to take responsibility for their own actions, and kids learning that from their parents. So sad.

Plus, there's been an overall devaluement of human life over the past generation or so.

 

[RavenStorm]

You know I admit to doing drugs years ago. Even when I was hi I knew what I was doing. If I had killed someone even while I was hi I would expect to be punished. And goddess knows I would probably get put under the prison. As far as children these days. I got my ass tore up at least twice a day by my mom. Even if I did not need it. I have two kids and swore that I would never spank them. But my first child taught me how wrong I was. She started trying to be the mom and totally disrespected me so I spanked her little bottom. It is now yes mama and no mama with both my 6 and 3 year old. If they sit there and let her claim insanity they all need their heads checked. My brother was killed almost 2 years ago by people on drugs so when it comes to this crap that she did I get on the biggest soap box there is. Sorry for ramblimg.

 

[Samael]

RavenStorm, sorry to hear about your brother, it is never easy to lose a loved one.