Looks like some of our efforts yesterday paid off--
the AP is running a story that mentions Scott Heldreth (father of one of the kids who tried to give water to Terri Schiavo) isn't registered in North Carolina as a sex offender.
And get this--he was brash enough to actually sit down for an interview!
The father of a 10-year-old Kannapolis boy arrested for trying to take a glass of water to Terri Schiavo says the religious beliefs that prompted his vigil outside the brain-damaged woman's hospice were shaped while serving time in jail.
Howard Scott Heldreth, 32, said his views changed when he was 19 as he spent months in an Ohio jail while awaiting trial on rape and kidnapping charges.
Heldreth was in jail for parts of 1992 and 1993, court records show. He eventually pleaded guilty to sexual battery and served time on probation.
Until then, he said Saturday, he believed strongly in evolution, especially the idea that the strong naturally ruled over the weak.
"I basically agreed with everyone trying to kill Terri Schiavo," he said, adding that he later accepted Christ and turned his life around.
Now that it's out in the open, there is no defensible reason for OSA to keep him on.