The Danieal Kelly Case: The plot thickens August 15 2008
I posted earlier this week about the sad story of Danieal Kelly’s death and a heinous wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of her “estate”. Danieal Kelly’s “estate” was, at the time, being managed by the same people who killed her: her parents. The Kellys have since “agreed to the court appointment of a trustee for the estate, waived their rights to participate in a wrongful-death lawsuit, ‘and understand they may not recover [money damages] in the end.’”
I was remiss in my earlier post by neglecting to comment on the two scum-sucking lawyers who filed the suit on behalf of the “estate”. Apparently the outrage over the hideousness of this lawsuit has caught at least one of these fine gentlemen completely unawares and he’s fighting back:
After four days of public vilification in which his professional ethics have been challenged, a lawyer for Danieal Kelly’s estate has hired his own attorney to try to “set the record straight.”
Veteran Center City litigator George Bochetto yesterday confirmed that he had been hired by Brian Mildenberg, one of two lawyers representing the estate of Danieal Kelly, the 14-year-old girl whose death by starvation in 2006 has resulted in criminal charges against her parents, family friends, and public and private social workers used by the city’s Department of Human Services.
Bochetto said he was astounded by the adverse publicity that had fallen on Mildenberg. He said he was planning a news conference for Monday to “set the record straight.”
“Brian Mildenberg is being vilified when he should be applauded for courageously taking on a difficult case out of a sense of professional responsibility,” Bochetto said.
Oh I see. This wasn’t despicable; it was noble because this blood money is for the chilllllldruuuun.
Apparently Mildenberg, and his partner in scum sucking, Eric Zajac, had nothing but the very best interests of Danieal’s nine remaining siblings (and themselves) in mind:
After Mildenberg and Zajac reinstituted the suit, Bochetto said, most reporters and media commentators wrongly assumed that the parents were trying to benefit from the death of their own daughter. The suit was filed in Common Pleas Court on Aug. 1, and removed to U.S. District Court on Aug. 5.
Bochetto said the news coverage also made it appear that the Kellys had the suit filed from prison. The suit was originally filed last year, long before the July 31 grand jury presentment and the arrests of the Kellys and their seven codefendants.
Instead, Bochetto said, the goal of the wrongful-death suit would be filed to provide money for the care of Danieal Kelly’s nine siblings, all of whom are now in foster care.
I must be missing something here. If the children are all in taxpayer funded foster care right now, how does suing the government for taxpayer funds benefit these children? Oh, that’s right: Without a lawsuit, Mildenberg and Zajac get no publicity or cut of the settlement.
While this particular article focuses solely on lawyer Brian Mildenberg hiring lawyer George Bochetto, MainLineThoughts from the Save Ardmore Coalition points out that lawyer Eric Zajac has an interesting sideline. Check it out here.
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