Nancy Grace being sued

[Mermaid02]

Sorry- nobody is EVER responsible for someone else's suicide. There is always a choice.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

It bothers me that it's Melinda's parents that are suing - from what I've read, they pretty much "wrote her off" long ago, and that's why she was with the grandparents. I think they (or a lawyer) sees big $$$$ signs at CNN, but I have a feeling they might be sorry they started this if the big guns bring out more dirt on Melinda.

I DO agree though with the part where they are asking that "Team Trenton" keep track of all the donations coming in, since it's supposed to be used for a reward fund. I kind of thought the same thing the other day when the news showed Josh (Trenton's dad) wearing some sort of pimp hat (that's what they called it - it was a huge hat, purple, with a big feather. What's up with that? ) and his team working at an outdoor venue of some kind and the reporter showed a donation jar just packed with cash.

I still have faith though that Trenton will show up someday, one way or another. But then, we still don't really know whatever happened to Jon Benet after all this time either......

I am betting Melinda did not have a will, so her parents are the executors of her estate (in Florida the state recongnizes them as the next of kin). Since they are the executors of her estate, they would do the filing on the behalf of her estate. So even if she wrote them off, legally they are the responsible party.

I saw on the news that "Team Trenton" was selling T-Shirts and Buttons with Trenton's picture on them. It's getting bizarre on that side now as well. I am sure they are doing it to raise donations AND to get Trenton's picture out there, but it still seemed strange to have those items "for sale".

 

[FSUGrad97]

I saw on the news that "Team Trenton" was selling T-Shirts and Buttons with Trenton's picture on them. It's getting bizarre on that side now as well. I am sure they are doing it to raise donations AND to get Trenton's picture out there, but it still seemed strange to have those items "for sale".

IMHO, both sides seem to be pretty shady.

What I don't get is how she took him to court about a threatening e-mail that he supposedly sent to her (but it later came out that she actually wrote it), and she STILL had custody of the child. I don't know much about child custody, but I would think this type of behavior would be frowned upon by the courts.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

IMHO, both sides seem to be pretty shady.

What I don't get is how she took him to court about a threatening e-mail that he supposedly sent to her (but it later came out that she actually wrote it), and she STILL had custody of the child. I don't know much about child custody, but I would think this type of behavior would be frowned upon by the courts.

I thought this information wasn't discovered until Trenton's disappearance. I could be very wrong though, as the stories all bizarre and running together at this point.

 

[summerrluvv]

I've been following this story and I sure do hope they find little Trenton! Witnesses at Wendy's placed Melinda there with Trenton in the car and then she came back later to get chicken nuggets without him in the car, so maybe she handed him off to someone else during that time span. Hopefully that person will come forward, but I have a feeling whoever has him has fled the country.

As far as Nancy Grace being responsible for Melinda's suicide, I think that's ridiculous. Like someone else said, there is always another choice and rather than face the consequences of her actions, her choice was to end her life. No one forced her to.

 

[britchick]

Guys,

Just wanted to say something here, a lot of you have been dogging the Eubanks for suing CNN, but... their daughter killed herself on the 8th Sept, Nancy grace showed the Melinda Duckett interview on the 8th Sept, literally hours after Melindas body was found. Some of the Eubank family had not even been informed of Melindas death by the authorities at that point.

The interview could have waited a few days, a lot of people have been traumatised by this, and we all know Nancy Grace is a very biased person, she has from the begining made up her mind that Trenton Duckett was not taken through that screen in the bedroom, (she told us for weeks that the cut was 10" and it wasn't possible, then recently we saw the size of the cut, it was huge!! no problem getting a 2 year old through it and yet she still maintained it was impossible to get that boy through!) yet how could she know this, let alone state it as fact. We can all have theories but Nancy Grace is reporting incorrect facts to the media.

While I don't think it is right to sue for money (prob just because you can) Nancy Grace has not been fair, and the Eubanks will for sure have suffered from all this media attention.
Their young daughter could be being bullied at school because of this.
Melinda hurt a lot of people when she put that gun to her head, and this is the Eubanks way of trying to make the hurt go away. (it won't work though)

Lets all remember a little boy still missing, and if he is alive, what will he come back to, will he ever have a normal life again, such a shame!

 

[summerrluvv]

Guys,

Just wanted to say something here, a lot of you have been dogging the Eubanks for suing CNN, but... their daughter killed herself on the 8th Sept, Nancy grace showed the Melinda Duckett interview on the 8th Sept, literally hours after Melindas body was found. Some of the Eubank family had not even been informed of Melindas death by the authorities at that point.

The interview could have waited a few days, a lot of people have been traumatised by this, and we all know Nancy Grace is a very biased person, she has from the begining made up her mind that Trenton Duckett was not taken through that screen in the bedroom, (she told us for weeks that the cut was 10" and it wasn't possible, then recently we saw the size of the cut, it was huge!! no problem getting a 2 year old through it and yet she still maintained it was impossible to get that boy through!) yet how could she know this, let alone state it as fact. We can all have theories but Nancy Grace is reporting incorrect facts to the media.

While I don't think it is right to sue for money (prob just because you can) Nancy Grace has not been fair, and the Eubanks will for sure have suffered from all this media attention.
Their young daughter could be being bullied at school because of this.
Melinda hurt a lot of people when she put that gun to her head, and this is the Eubanks way of trying to make the hurt go away. (it won't work though)

Lets all remember a little boy still missing, and if he is alive, what will he come back to, will he ever have a normal life again, such a shame!

There is still no way someone reached through that window and grabbed the little boy. His bed was so low to the ground and not directly under the window. It would be physically impossible for someone to reach in and take him.

 

[DWDreams]

Exactly. And don't forget, CNN and Nancy Grace have DEEP pockets. One might think they'd be busier searching for their grandson....

Well, they are much too busy. So busy they hadn't seen their daughter since she was 17 and so busy that they'd actually never met their 2 y.o. grandson. In fact, so, so busy that when Melinda Duckett was alive and looking for her son, they told her they couldn't come but would be there for the funeral when he was found.

It's amazing they've found the time to pursue a lawsuit, though.

Aside from all that, the suit is ridiculous in general.

 

[britchick]

There is still no way someone reached through that window and grabbed the little boy. His bed was so low to the ground and not directly under the window. It would be physically impossible for someone to reach in and take him.

How do you know did you try? Melinda said he was the kind of child that would be ok around strangers.
What if a stranger was holding a popsicle to the window and Trenton got up and went to the window.

I am NOT saying this IS what happened, I'm just saying until we have all the facts we cannot disprove anything like that, and Nancy Grace has no right to say things are impossible when in fact they are totally plausible.

Sure Melinda was all over the place, it wouldn't come as a shock to me if it came to light that she had done something terrible with Trenton, yet I can't say she's responsible as I have no proof and no facts, and now she is dead the police have to work a whole lot harder in finding this little boy.

The police say they believe he is alive, why? because he was seen at a wendys? we are not being told a lot of things in this case, and some of the things that have been released are shocking beyond belief, not just Melindas antics but Josh Duckett too.

At the end of the day I understand why the Eubanks are suing, but I don't think it's right. These people have lost 2 children, a daughter and a grandson, and no matter what anyone thinks of them they just have to be destroyed right now, they are angry that they lost their daughter, and as any parents they don't want to believe their own child was this messed up. Its so much easier to blame someone else and that happens to be Nancy Grace and team trenton.

JMO

 

[britchick]

Well, they are much too busy. So busy they hadn't seen their daughter since she was 17 and so busy that they'd actually never met their 2 y.o. grandson. In fact, so, so busy that when Melinda Duckett was alive and looking for her son, they told her they couldn't come but would be there for the funeral when he was found.

It's amazing they've found the time to pursue a lawsuit, though.

Aside from all that, the suit is ridiculous in general.

From what I know the Eubanks are not wealthy in the slightest, they were unable to afford the flight to come see her when trenton went missing, but they were in the process of getting a free flight from a carrier of course Melinda killed herself, if she had just waited a few days they would have been there.

Of course all that is reported in the media is to do with the ducketts and team trenton etc, from what I know the Grandparents of melinda have been very active in their church and have raised a fair amount of money to go towards the reward, they have given numerous interviews that have not been shown, so with all this biased media attention we really don't know what the Eubanks are doing to find Trenton, all focus is on Josh, and all the crapolla is about Melinda.
You have to look at this case closely and realise we are not being told the whole truth here, we don't know much about the Eubanks and I really don't think its because they are too busy, they are probably very busy raising money themselves and putting up flyers, it's just not getting reported.
JMO

 

[DWDreams]

From what I know the Eubanks are not wealthy in the slightest, they were unable to afford the flight to come see her when trenton went missing, but they were in the process of getting a free flight from a carrier of course Melinda killed herself, if she had just waited a few days they would have been there.

Of course all that is reported in the media is to do with the ducketts and team trenton etc, from what I know the Grandparents of melinda have been very active in their church and have raised a fair amount of money to go towards the reward, they have given numerous interviews that have not been shown, so with all this biased media attention we really don't know what the Eubanks are doing to find Trenton, all focus is on Josh, and all the crapolla is about Melinda.
You have to look at this case closely and realise we are not being told the whole truth here, we don't know much about the Eubanks and I really don't think its because they are too busy, they are probably very busy raising money themselves and putting up flyers, it's just not getting reported.
JMO

My saying they were/are too busy was sarcasm. Can't help it, sorry. I think the lawsuit is crap, but it's even more crap when it's filed by parents in regard to a child they wrote off over 5 years ago and a grandchild they never bothered to meet. Trenton was over 2 years old and they hadn't seen their daughter in over 5 years. They live on Long Island which I believe Southwest serves. Plenty of $59 and up flights to Orlando and back in the last 2 to 5 years.

And believe me, I've spent too much time reviewing this case. The Eubanks, aside from the grandparents anyway, haven't done anything by way of a search effort for their grandson. The grandparents' church did raise some money initially for the search effort and gave it to Melinda before she killed herself. It's said that the money she left in her car when she killed herself was that money she was returning, although I also read some of it was missing and it was thought she may have bought herself a new Ipod at around that time. Truth or not I don't know, but there's way too much to this entire story for anyone, myself included, to make blanket assumptions.

I guess I am biased as I think Melinda Duckett did something to or with her son. I thought it anyway, but now with the information that they've discovered she was involved with pornography and there are even pics of her on the net with her son right in the picture while she's "busy" in the forefront, well I guess it just affirms to me that she didn't have much respect for her parental responsibility at least.

 

[summerrluvv]

How do you know did you try? Melinda said he was the kind of child that would be ok around strangers.
What if a stranger was holding a popsicle to the window and Trenton got up and went to the window.

I am NOT saying this IS what happened, I'm just saying until we have all the facts we cannot disprove anything like that, and Nancy Grace has no right to say things are impossible when in fact they are totally plausible.

Sure Melinda was all over the place, it wouldn't come as a shock to me if it came to light that she had done something terrible with Trenton, yet I can't say she's responsible as I have no proof and no facts, and now she is dead the police have to work a whole lot harder in finding this little boy.

The police say they believe he is alive, why? because he was seen at a wendys? we are not being told a lot of things in this case, and some of the things that have been released are shocking beyond belief, not just Melindas antics but Josh Duckett too.

At the end of the day I understand why the Eubanks are suing, but I don't think it's right. These people have lost 2 children, a daughter and a grandson, and no matter what anyone thinks of them they just have to be destroyed right now, they are angry that they lost their daughter, and as any parents they don't want to believe their own child was this messed up. Its so much easier to blame someone else and that happens to be Nancy Grace and team trenton.

JMO

Because the police have said it's not physically possible for someone to reach into the window and grabe the child in that manner. They had a special on last week about the forensics in the case.

 

[britchick]

I thought it anyway, but now with the information that they've discovered she was involved with pornography and there are even pics of her on the net with her son right in the picture while she's "busy" in the forefront, well I guess it just affirms to me that she didn't have much respect for her parental responsibility at least.

First of all I believe that picture to be photoshop'd, infact I have been told by someone who does photography for a living that the child is added. JMO of course.


Secondly the grandparents church raised $6ooo for the reward, and that is why team trenton are being asked what they did with the money that they were given and how it is going to get spent.

Another thing you have to take into consideration is that we don't know what has happened in that family, it could well be that the parents and the grandparents have had some kind of fall out after Melinda moved to Florida.
There could be some bad blood there, maybe something that isn't even forgivable in times like this.

I know you have a right to your opinion and I respect that, but I feel sorry for these guys, maybe you don't see them much in the public eye because they are terribly embarassed/ashamed. Wouldn't you be? I know I would if it came out in the media that my daughter was making porn movies, playing beer pong, sleeping with lots of guys, and maybe had a hand in her own sons disappearance, and then the suicide. It is a terrible shame that has befallen that family. as I said before I don't agree with the lawsuit, I just think I kind of understand them lashing out. Perhaps if Melinda was alive her mom would have beat her butt for all the things that have come out these last few weeks.
I guess there is noone left to blame but Nancy Grace.

I'm quite sure the lawsuit will be thrown out.

I have to say though this is a very weird case, I'm not really sure of the outcome, I hope he is alive but I'm not counting on it.

JMO