Rev. Manning and Family of Slain Miriam Carey Calls for Paternity Test of Erica Carey

by Scott Creighton

Rev. Manning is openly calling for a paternity test to determine if Eric Francis is actually the father of the child Miriam Carey took to D.C. on the fateful day she was executed. That day she took little Erica to the White House on the anniversary of the president’s wedding.

“And suddenly it occurred to me… the kid isn’t a side-note to the story… the kid is the story.” Oct. 4, 2013 Scott Creighton

As I have stated from the very beginning, I think the child in the back of that car wasn’t just there by happenstance. You don’t take a 14 month old infant on a 270 road trip for nothing.

The child, Erica, is the point of all of this and we as a community have to back Rev. Manning’s and the family’s efforts at getting to the bottom of this horrendous crime.

The way the Secret Service was trying to keep Miriam from leaving the grounds at the White House and the way this case has unfolded (the DNA scrubbing of her condo and the police seizure of the child) goes a long way to suggest that this is not a case of a ‘delusional” woman (which she was not) getting shot after “ramming” her car into the White House gates (which she did not do)

Remember how they arrested Valarie’s lawyer right after he said “this isn’t finished” referring to a custody battle over little Erica? Now the courts have ruled that the family can only have very limited and supervised visitation with Erica. What exactly are they trying to keep control of? This is a 14 month old child being treated by state agencies as if she is made of plutonium. Why?

It is said that Miriam reported Obama was “communicating with her” and had agents from the White House “spying on her”.  Was she crazy or was someone as interested in that child prior to the shooting as they seem to be now?

Is this a case where the Secret Service just “went crazy” chasing down a single mother and her infant to gun them down in broad daylight for no reason in the nation’s capitol? Or, was their action motivated by something darker?

Rev. Manning and the family of little Erica Carey have a right to ask for this test. Upon reflection on the facts of the case, there are far too many questions left unanswered. Questions that child end up asking as she grows older. Questions Miriam’s family has too struggle with today.

Have we become such a flock of sheep living under a tyrant that his Secret Police can gun-down 34 year old mothers in our streets while we have neither the courage or the care to demand answers… to demand justice?

Some would say the answer to that question is yes. I would not and I will go to my grave (or my cell in the re-education camps) with that conviction.

If the test proves that Eric Francis is indeed the father of the child, then he as the father should be given custody of her with provisions made that the rest of the family can be a part of her life as she grows.

But if this test proves beyond any reasonable doubt, that Erica is not his, then full custody should and must be granted to Valarie and the rest of Miriam’s family.

Either way, a full investigation into the wrongful shooting death of Miriam Carey must be conducted. We are a nation of laws, not icons.

Here is Rev. Manning addressing this deeply important effort which has my full support.

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