TAMPA, Fla. - The Department of Children & Families released dozens of pages of documents Friday showing it investigated complaints that Terri Schiavo was being abused and exploited by both sides of her family, but could find no evidence that she was.
The records of 89 complaints logged at DCF's abuse hotline date back to 2001 and included allegations that Schiavo, who at that point had been in a persistent vegetative state for more than a decade, was both being mistreated by her husband and her parents for financial gain.
The records were released under order from Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer at the request of The Tampa Tribune and the St. Petersburg Times. Schiavo died March 31, nearly two weeks after the feeding tube which had kept her alive for 15 years was removed by her husband Michael.
DCF investigators found no evidence that either her husband or parents were exploiting her, and often noted in its records that investigators found Terri Schiavo well cared for on their visits to her Pinellas Park hospice.
The records released do not include the subject of the most recent allegation under which the department sought a 60-day delay in the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube so it could investigate. Greer refused to allow the delay, and the matter is still pending before the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland.
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