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What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
This story doesn’t have quite the same appeal as a machete-wielding nun with murderous intentions against her lover/priest, but out in Ohio, a bad scene is just getting worse. The story involves a developmentally disabled three-year-old Marcus Feisel, a foster child under the care of David and Liz Carroll. Back in early August, Liz allegedly lost her son, claiming that she passed out in a park because of a heart condition. The Carrolls then sparked a massive and panicked search for Feisel, only to discover that the boy wasn’t lost. In fact, the Carrolls had wrapped him in a blanket, taped it over him with clear packing tape, and shoved him in a closet where he died while they attended a family reunion. After the exhaustive search began (which included combing the Ohio River), authorities eventually found part of Feisel’s remains in a fireplace and the rest of his remains are believed to be in the river.
The Carrolls have been charged with a slew of crimes in relation to Fiesel’s death, and a lot of questions are being asked about the foster-care system in Ohio.
But, as bad as it sounds, it only gets worse when someone tries to exploit the child’s death for some quick cash. And that’s exactly what Donna Trevino, the birth-mother, is trying to do. She’s filed an $8 million wrongful death lawsuit against children services, the Carrolls, the county, and David Caroll’s live-in girlfriend (?), claiming that the people she trusted to take care of her child didn’t do their job. The fact of the matter, however, is that if Trevino had done her job as a mother in the first place, none of this ever would’ve happened. Instead, Fiesel often wandered off under her care, and the home’s conditions were unfit for the child. But instead of taking some responsibility for the fate of her child, this blob of a woman (pictured above) has decided that the best thing she can do is throw an $8 million lawsuit into the mix.
That’s justice: The American way.
Comments
Bravo. And thank you. I have been following this case since day one. When everyone thought that poor baby was "missing".
Everyone in his life failed him and used him for a meal ticket... and even in death... his own BIRTH mother is trying to do the effing same. Gilbert Grape's mama at least had decency to care for her kids better than this wench.
Posted by Mitzy from Ohio | September 16, 2006 10:19 AM