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By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER
2/12/2009
LOS ANGELES – Police said
Thursday they will investigate death threats against octuplet mom Nadya Suleman and advise her publicist on how to handle a torrent
of other nasty messages that have flooded his office.
Word that the 33-year-old
single, unemployed mother is receiving public assistance to care for the 14
children she conceived through in vitro fertilization has stoked furor among
many people.
Police Lt. John Romero
said officers were meeting with Suleman's publicist
Mike Furtney about the flood of angry phone calls and
e-mail messages against Suleman, her children and Furtney.
"We are aware of the
media accounts of the threats, and that they are being sent to the
Furtney said 500 new e-mails
were received early Thursday. The Dily
Mail reports she has had 500 death threats
"We're talking to
the Los Angeles Police Department to get their best advice as to how to
regard these messages," Furtney said as the
phone in his office rang constantly.
Daily Mail --Additions
Nadya insists: “I’m done having children now. My
family is complete and I would not change anything.”
Little Noah, Malia,
Isaiah, Nariah, McCai,
Josiah, Jeremiah and Jonah arrived nearly
two months prematurely just over two weeks ago.
They will spend another month in hospital,
where one is having treatment for jaundice, before going home with her.
She accepts that is when the hard work will
really start. Nadya admits: “I can give love and
attention to the older six, but I’m anticipating problems when the others
arrive. The most challenging aspect for me will be learning to accept help from
volunteers. I’m a control freak, you see. But I’ll have to accept help.
“A lot of women have offered to help out.
There are 50 or 60 through my church.”
However, not everybody is supportive of the
fact she has had 14 children through IVF. A warped minority
have gone to sinister lengths to show their disapproval and she has had
500 death threats.
She shakes her
head: “I feel I’m under the microscope because I’ve chosen to be single.
“When something out of the normal happens, we
have to expect that some people will not accept it.
“I’ve had death threats. They happened when I
was about to leave the hospital. We were hiding out for a day or two. There
were letters and emails saying we deserved to die. There were posters in front
of my house saying the babies should die. There were two protesters out there.
“Criticism I expected. But not people
threatening death.” Maniacs aside, the difficulties facing her are obvious
enough when you look around her overcrowded, sparsely-furnished three-bedroom
home in