Message to the Haters

Yesterday while sitting in the courtroom I kept thinking about the displaced anger from the Briggs family. Why can't they admit that Mike Porter manipulated them just like he manipulated Raye Dawn and the Smiths? Does everything really come back to the money? Raye Dawn made it clear while on the stand that if she is awarded anything, it will go to pay back her family for her legal expenses and the rest will go to our local infant crisis center that is in desperate need for donations and to St. Jude's children's hospital. She doesn't want the money. So why continue the hate toward her? She wants to help children in her daughter's name.

Recently, the infant crisis center was in need of volunteers and Gayla got a message about it, and she was off work that day, so she spent the day filling out paperwork for them while they checked car seats for parents. Gayla was the only volunteer that day.

The Smiths are serious about doing good for children and for people in their community and they hold their heads high despite the dirty looks and the snickering. I'm proud to support such a giving and loving family.