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I'd like to add that I pray for her recovery and I hope that nothing like this ever happens to her or any entertainer again.

This is not a good situation. I too hope that somehow this guy gets treatment and cools off. It is my understanding that he had strangled her into unconsciousness and left her for dead. The only reason she is alive is because he thought she was dead. Sad.

I don't know much about Mindy McCready or her career, but I was listening to a Kansas City country radio station morning radio program last week when the three DJs on the program began discussing her DWI arrest with some self proclaimed "Inside Nashville Reporter." Evidently when Ms. McCready was ticketed she told the arresting officer that it would be the end of her musical career. The DJs just laughed and started going on about, "What career?" Stating that she had only released a hand full of recordings and that she hadn't had a hit record in six years. Their final comment being she's twenty-eight years old and washed up in the music business. Personally I found their whole discussion on the subject to be downright rotten. Then later I heard about her boy friend beating and strangling her. My point being, it was refreshing to read all your folk's comments on this SGF page that she should seek help rather than berate her. It's no secret that I am not a fan of the country music being produced for mainstream country radio today, but these young performers are being used up like fodder by the music industry in Nashville just to be discarded when they are through using them. As a society we are educated enough to know the alcoholism and abuse should be dealt with in a professional and caring manner and for any radio station to air such verbal comments is juvenile entertainment at best. I sincerely hope that Ms. McCready seek counseling and gains control of her life and regains a successful career in the music business. OK, I'll put away my soapbox now.

Jo Ann I agree with treatment,
but for what has been described above,
this should be treatment during and after
incarceration for a vicious crime ; attempted murder...

If he strangled her till unconcsiousness and left her for dead,
that is CLEARLY attempted murder, alcohol involved or not, and is totally prosecuatable.

Yeah give him treatment, but get him off the streets. ASAP.

This is not just mean and drunken behavior,
but dangerous to society at large.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 20 May 2005 at 12:23 PM.]</p></FONT>

I agree completely. Ms. McCready has her own matters to take care of and the law needs to take care of her attacker so this does not happen again -- either to her or someone else. I understand her case was on Court TV, but it was during the day and I missed it. Her attacker was appearing in court (having been arrested) and Ms. McCready was there to press charges and follow through.