from anonymous on defense team (not public)

I hesitate to give you more detail because a) this blog entry is pretty old and b) it might send you into the stratosphere. I found you by running a search to determine some dates regarding the Diehl's cases for a reason.

As a very young law clerk, I worked on Karen's defense case, for the firm of Clark & Stant. Specifically, Thomas Shuttleworth, who was her criminal defense attorney. Here are some extra pieces to the puzzle:

1. Mr. Shuttleworth's $40,000 retainer was put up by a local church.

2. Karen beat Dominick (his real name) to death with a lead pipe then left him to die. When she finally admitted it, she said God told her to beat him like that because he had the devil in him.

3. The boy's injuries were so severe that he literally could've been hit by a speeding dump truck. I know. I copied, labeled, disseminated and filed the reports from the emergency room and coroner.

4. Michael was present and did NOTHING to stop this. Nothing. Thus, 15 years for accessory which was affirmed on appeal.

Until working on this case, I had spent my entire life wanting to be an attorney. I was hired to work on a corporate case for Borden but then farmed out when they took this high-profile defense case. When it was over and we lost, I did two things: Celebrated with the paralegals, secretaries and assistants and swore off law as a career.

Any person of faith who truly believes that beating children is the proper way to shape them (might makes right) is delusional. I would no sooner do that to my children than sell them into slavery.