This is likely the most callous thing you’ll read today.
The 18-year-old who was allegedly high on Oxycontin and Xanax when she drove a passenger van into a Hempstead, Long Island home, fatally striking the home’s owner, was hysterical when taken out of the police station yesterday. Kayla Gerdes screamed to reporters, “No, I didn’t [purposely aim for her.] Listen, stop — listen, it was an accident! Please leave me, alone it was a mistake! Stop it was a mistake! No, I was on prescription drugs, it was a mistake! Stop! Leave me alone!” (Video below.) But she reportedly told police investigators, “The thing that made me feel not so bad was she was old,” referring to victim Rebecca Twine-Wright, “I mean, 70 years is a long time to live.”
Twine-Wright, a 69-year-old retired doctor, had been gardening when a van allegedly driven by Gerdes jumped a curb and barreled into her.
Tell me the truth. Is it any surprise that this would be said with the culture the way it is today?
April 27, 2010 at 3:45 am
Anonymous:
Because that's why she needs charity the most. Christ calls us to be charitable to ALL, not just those who are good or repentant.
often times, true charity convicts us of our own nothingness.
April 27, 2010 at 4:51 pm
@Kim Luisi – Christ calls us to be charitable to ALL, not just those who are good or repentant.
Absolutely and to love a person is to hope for their ultimate salvation. Love would be to give a person the opportunity for repentance and penance.
It would be uncharitable to both the victim and the perpetrator to be lenient for a grievous wrongdoing.
April 28, 2010 at 6:36 pm
When I was 19, I didn't have a driver's license, although I had taken driver's ed in high school. I was in Chapel Hill NC with some friends, and one of them had a VW bug. I said that when I learned to drive, that was the kind of car I wanted. I was offered the chance to drive it, urged to do so, and I stupidly accepted. I was able to get it started and going, but I had a very unclear idea about how to stop a standard shift car; I knew you couldn't just put on the brake. Suddenly we were approaching a class of kindergarden kids crossing the street. Just in time I decided that whatever harm would be caused to the car by just putting my foot on the brake couldn't be as bad as the harm caused to little children by plowing the car into them, and I stopped, a mere couple of feet short of doing that. I got out of the car shaking and refused to drive futher. Whenever I hear about something stupid done by a young person with disastrous consequences for others I think of how close I came to ruining the lives of several families, and my own, by that act of stupidity. There, but for the grace of God, go I.
Susan Peterson