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March 06, 2007

You Selfish Bastard

How could you do this to your daughter?

BEDFORD, Indiana (AP) -- The man whose small plane slammed into his former mother-in-law's house, killing him and his 8-year-old daughter, had told his ex-wife before the crash he had the girl "and you're not going to get her," the mother-in-law said Tuesday.

Eric Johnson, a student pilot who had soloed before, strapped daughter Emily into the passenger seat of a leased, single-engine Cessna on Monday morning. Less than two hours later, officials said, the plane smashed into the home of Vivian Pace, the girl's grandmother.

Pace told reporters outside her damaged home Tuesday that Johnson called her daughter, Beth Johnson, by cell phone shortly before the crash.

He told his ex-wife: "I've got her, and you're not going to get her," she said.

This just makes me sick to my stomach.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at March 6, 2007 02:05 PM

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His 8 year old daughter?

I'm hoping that there's a special place in Hell, just for this bastard.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at March 6, 2007 05:56 PM

Selfish is not the first word I came up with.

Posted by: Mike Rentner at March 6, 2007 06:16 PM

Maybe I'm just having an unusually depressive week, but when I hear stories like that, I get to wondering, "Why doesn't God just wipe out all the people and start over with...I don't know, the koala bears or something?"

I mean, cripes. What an utterly evil thing to do to a child. What an utterly evil thing to do to the child's mother. What an utterly evil thing to do to all the people who had to witness that.

Posted by: ricki at March 7, 2007 08:22 AM

Depraved. Just sick and depraved.

Posted by: Nightfly at March 7, 2007 12:25 PM