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Man ordered to care for grave of hit-and-run victim

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 21 September 2005
TROY, Kan. - When a man convicted in a hit-and-run accident that killed a woman last year gets out of jail next week, he'll have to start making regular cemetery visits to care for his victim's grave. A judge made that one of the requirements for Tommy D. Thompson's release on probation from the Doniphan County Jail next Wednesday. Thompson, 37, of St. Joseph, Mo., got an 18-month sentence last fall after pleading guilty to the misdemeanor offenses of leaving the scene of an accident, failing to report it, obstructing official duties and driving with a suspended license. Judy Benning, 74, who ran a charity shop in St. Joseph, was killed on March 1 last year when struck by Thompson's vehicle as she walked along a road in Elwood, Kan., near her home. Judy's Care and Share, which Benning operated for more than 12 years, provided free clothes and furniture to the needy. During a hearing Thursday on probation for Thompson, Magistrate Judge Roy Roper asked whether he regretted what he did. "Yes, I very much do," Thompson said. When the judge asked if Thompson knew where Benning was buried, Thompson said he and his family had already bought concrete benches to be placed at her gravesite in Mount Olivet Cemetery. The judge then ordered that as a condition of his two years on probation, Thompson must visit the grave every other week, personally handling all the groundskeeping. "You should show just care for the decedent," Roper said. The judge, county prosecutor Charles Baskins and Ted Collins, Thompson's court-appointed attorney, all acknowledged his good conduct in jail and while on a court-approved furlough to care for his wife. Having a job is one of the other conditions for Thompson's probation, and Collins said his client has the prospect of going to work for a former employer. Earl Atlakson, a friend of Benning, said Thompson had paid his time. "It's cost him some of his life," he said. "I wish him well." Source: Belleville News Democrat

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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