Man Wants Ex to Pay for Donated Kidney

[ketostix]

She's probably wanting alimony or to split assets and he wants his donated kidney to count as a contribution. If that's the case, I agree.


http://news.aol.com/article/man-wants-ex-to-pay-for-donated-kidney/297471?icid=200100397x1215820572x1201026206

Man Wants Ex to Pay for Donated Kidney
(Jan. 7) - When they were married, a New
York doctor gave up one of his kidneys to
save his ailing wife. Now they’re getting a
divorce, and he wants it back.
Dr. Richard Batista said Wednesday he is
suing his estranged wife, Dawnell. Since he
doesn’t really expect her to return the kidney,
he is demanding $1.5 million in compensation
instead.
Batista claims his wife had an affair.
“There’s no deeper pain or betrayal from
somebody you loved and devoted your
whole life to,” he told a news conference at
his lawyer’s office in Garden City on Long
Island.
Batista, 49, who works for Nassau University
Medical Center, said he gave his kidney
to Dawnell Batista in June 2001. She filed
for divorce in July 2005.
The Batistas have three children, ages, 8, 11
and 14.
A message left for Dawnell Batista’s attorney,
Douglas Rothkopf, was not immediately
returned.

 

[shaunuk]

Hah, he donated a kidney, he might fvcking need that one day....then the wife goes and cheats on him left and right. She can't even keep her knickers up for her man who saved her life. What's the world coming to.

 

[darkstarrr]

She can't even keep her knickers up for her man who saved her life. What's the world coming to.

This is the kind of sh1t that is really sobering for me.

A Martyr is one of those people that does and does for others, so willingly, and then gets peeved when they feel overlooked or slighted by those people.

I'm glad MrMe brough up this point in the thread about giving and taking. With me, and as I can imagine for this guy who is out a kidney - the least people expect is to be treated with a little fvcking respect and decency.

I can't imagine what would be going through my mind if I was with a girl and she donated a kidney for me, and then I went around doing what this woman did. It's beyond heartless. She should be jailed or something.

I'm interested to see how it turns out in court. I'm sure the lawyers are going to have some interesting arguments.

 

[thedeparted]

Since women are no longer accountable for anything, men can no longer afford altruism with them. This means he should have let her die. That would have saved him the money, the kidney, the heartbreak, and the disrespect. Sad, but true.

 

[Mr. Me]

What's also horrible is that many women online have been posting calling this guy all sorts of names, as if HE'S the heartless, cruel one.

>> I'm interested to see how it turns out in court. >>

I venture a guess that this will be seen as sour grapes on his part. They'll probably deem it was a gift from him to her while they were married and therefore he has no claims to it. I can already hear her attorney ask him on the stand, "So, if you somehow could've known that your wife would have an affair in the future or seek a divorce, would you have decided to NOT donate your kidney and as a consequence of that, let her die?"

Hope he has a good attorney.

>> This means he should have let her die.>>

If she prevails, that's EXACTLY the message that would be sent to ALL men.

 

[LoneSilver]

I saw this and about fell over but I see a movie deal in the making.

LoneSilver

 

[darkstarrr]

For some reason I just got a vision of that scene in the movie Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom where the guy chants something over and over and sticks his hand into the other guy's chest and removes his still beating heart.

http://whatspikelikes.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/heart.jpg

Here is the Dumb and Dumber version:

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/b/0/3/b0360b4a5648709d5c6e689280c5cd85.jpg

 

[Da Realist]

If I were the judge, she would just get the bag of crap she came into the marrige with, but I know she'll get some money somehow.

 

[LoneSilver]

Google Larry King Live he was on there last night with his lawyer.

LoneSilver

 

[Nutz]

Anyone have any updates on what the courts ruled? It's been the better part of a year, so you'd think there'd be some updated info out there.