They called this Alcohol counseling going to AA meetings? This just goes to show how much ignorance there is about what AA is and what it is not. There are no professionals or trained leaders in AA or NA. Just how many killers are allowed to go on the day leave to go to outside AA meetings in the community to sit next next to your daughter, wife or brother? This practice is just outrageous!
Convicted murderer denied parole for AA meetings
Gregory Hetrick was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2007 death of his mother Margaret Hetrick, then 79. The Orange Papers AA Criticism.
He applied this month for an escorted temporary absence from jail to go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. NA DAytona and AA Daytona in Deland, Orange City and Deltona.
The Parole Board of Canada (PBC) found while there would be some benefit to Hetrick, a recovering alcoholic, leaving jail to go to the meetings, the move would be premature.
“You need to gain insight into your offending, use of violence and substance abuse previous to a release,” the decision read.
Hetrick attended a substance abuse support group in jail and off-site AA meetings would be “a duplication of support,” the board found. Holly Hill AA and NA Meetings.
It also outlined concerns over the extent of Hetrick’s accountability for his crime and his “somewhat clinical and detached” description of stabbing and strangling his mother.
“You were not able to display any insight into why you killed your mother other than alcohol abuse.” SMART Recovery Meetings in St. Augustine.
Hetrick was sentenced to life imprisonment when convicted of second-degree murder in 2009, with a minimum ten years before the possibility of parole.
The trial judge said Hetrick’s mother died “a very violent death” at the hands of her intoxicated son during an argument over money.
Hetrick stabbed the elderly woman before strangling her to death.
He appealed his conviction until 2011, when he abandoned the process because of a lack of legal aid funding. He had questioned the intent behind a murder conviction.
Hetrick had no behavioural problems in jail, the board found, but was considered a high risk of drinking alcohol and becoming unmanageable if unsupervised.
He will be eligible for full parole in March 2017. Volusia County Drug Court AA Meetings.
It is ridiculous to let somebody out like this to attend meetings. I’m all for reforming people in prison but that does not mean killers should be sent for tea and biscuits to the local AA group. They normally have meetings in prison anyway.
Also, it could be a place that criminals meet other criminals just because it is somewhere they can get access. Anyone can walk into a meeting. I never got searched going into an AA meeting!
When are people going to just say enough is enough! This is just crazy! It is common to send many violent felons to leave during the day o go to AA and NA meetings. AA and NA gives NO warnings at all. No one is too sick, dangerous or twisted for AA or NA. Yet they go invite our teens to go to these meetings too. Sick just sick.