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September 29, 2006

Station Fire: 'Little boys need their daddies'

The mother of Great White guitarist Ty Longley's 3-year-old son also took the stand.

She identifies herself as Heidi Longley. She and Ty Longley were expecting a child when the musician died in The Station fire.

"I had to defend Ty so many times as a band member, when he was also a victim," she said.

What should have been a happy pregnancy for Heidi Longley became a mournful time where she tried to keep her unborn baby from hearing her crying and wished that they would both die so they could be united with Ty.

"It felt as if someone reached into my chest and tore out my heart when I got that knock at the door," she said.

She named her son after Ty.

They call the boy's father "Daddy Angel." The boy thinks he "had to take a special tour bus to heaven with his angel friends from Rhode Island. He thinks his father didn't want to go to heaven but had to because God needed him."

"Little boys need their daddies, not Daddy Angels," she said.

"It doesn't matter how many people are punished," she said. "Our loved ones are not coming back."

Posted by Mike McDermott  at 2:01 PM | Permalink

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