SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A woman said she still plans to marry the man who shot her in the groin and then held her hostage in his family's garage for six days.

Tina Marie Stebbins revealed her intentions in a letter released Monday as her boyfriend, Christian Leroy Lindblad, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting her in June 2002.

"I love Christian today as deeply as I loved him before this awful thing happened to us," Stebbins wrote in a victim impact statement. "We are soul mates."

She added: "I want to tell you all that I have forgiven Christian. And I pray that Christian has forgiven me for failing him when he needed me most."

The incident occurred at the Big Bear City home the couple shared with Lindblad's parents. Lindblad and Stebbins had a history of domestic violence and substance abuse, according to a sentencing report. It also said Lindblad had been drinking at the time of the shooting.

Lindblad and his parents, Robert and Shirley Lindblad, tried to cover up the shooting by treating Stebbins with home remedies, according to a San Bernardino County Sheriff's report. They also threatened her young sons and her family, the report said.

Critically wounded, Stebbins was airlifted to a hospital after Lindblad mentioned the incident to a family friend who was a firefighter.

Lindblad, 37, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted murder as his trial was about to begin in early October. He has said the shooting was an accident.

His father, Robert Leroy Lindblad, 72, pleaded guilty in 2003 to being an accessory and was sentenced to three years in prison. His mother, Shirley Royann Samantha Lindblad, 62, was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to the same charge.
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Wow...

To begin with...ouch. I was right. Infatuation is a nice name for temporary insanity.

what a dysfunctional family..

that woman is insane in wanting to marry this guy after what he's done to her. Forgiving him or not, it doesn't change the fact that he has a history of abuse and as the saying goes "leopards don't change their spots"..

These are exactly the types of people that should not be allowed to breed.






\/ Set up, Knock down lol

After getting shot in the groin, I'm not sure they will be

Surely you would be constantly living in fear that he might do it again & the next time you wouldn't be quite so lucky!! Well I don't mean 'lucky' but she wasn't injured seriously next time he could kill her!!!

Well, isn't that rather sporting of her! She's gonna give him another chance! Only this time he won't have to go through all the trouble of having to aim!!!

Folks, in Dixie, we call this thinning out the herd.

Something tells me this woman is old, ugly, stupid and hoo-weey DESPERATE.

That could also be it!!!!

If my partner shot me for failing him as that woman claims......he'd better hope and pray he never gets out of prison again

Something tells me that this woman was abused as a child and accepts it as the natural course of things.

It's a shame someone can't step in a put her in some sort of rehab for people whose self-esteem is shot to hell.

This woman is going to die.

she already has sons, ugh. <telling myself not to judge, telling myself not to judge>

Well if she does marry him I hope she's happy, but she sure is stupid for marrying the same man who tried to kill her.

i'm sorry but what a selfish dumb b****. even if she doesnt care about herself, atleast worry about the lives of her children.

i think he hit her in the head a couple times to

Well siad...but if you where to tell her that....she wouldn't understand what you mean....they do say love is blind

l agree with that , love is blinding her .

Someone does need to step in and stop this from happening, the lives of her children will be put at risk...............(shakes head).........

Ya know the more I think about this...I now begin to wonder if she is just doing this so she can have her sweet revenge!!! now there's a thought

Mabey loosing all that blood affected her brain.

oh, to have such loving in- laws.

Hopefully when she registered for wedding gifts, a bulletproof jacket was on the top of the list.

I don't get it...I don't know if the show COPS is on everywhere or not, but I am never even surprised anymore by the fact that the women will stand there bloodied and bruised and always say "but I loooove him..."

It never fails.

I hope they are happy together.

Poor girl doesnt even realize that a hidden S+M fetish in the back of her mind is causing her to mistake a primitive instinct for love . Sad , really .

I learned a long time ago not to interfere and just call the police. A girlfriend and I witnessed a guy slapping his girlfriend around outside of a nighclub, interrupted and asked someone to get the bouncer. The bouncer came out, smacked the guy around a bit and the girl went ballistic...it's unthinkable to me.

My ex hit me one night and I tried to kill him while waiting for the police, because he wouldn't let me leave. I went back the next day while he was at work, cleaned out the house and was gone before he got home. That's the ONLY way to handle that s***!!!


That's probably why he never would allow a gun in the house, because he was afraid I might use it on him one day.

That last few posts define the reasons that Peace Officers hate to get domestic despute calls. No matter what has happened, no matter who the bad guy is, no matter who goes to jail ... the other person doesn't want any outside involvement. If we don't get involved then somebody blames the Officer.

In the State Of Georgia, when the police are called to a 10-16, "Domestic Problem", somebody has to go to jail. The officer has no choice. All we can do is try to decide who is most likely to be the victim and take the other person to the county joint. No matter who hit who, the victim never wants his/her lover to go to jail. Then they often turn on the arresting officer to defend the lover who just recently nearly beat them to death.

Often what will happen is the wife will call the police. When we get there and he's raising hell we have to take him into custody. Then the wife attacks one of the officers because she doesn't want her husband to go to jail. Hitting a Peace Officer is Aggrevated Assault, which is a feloney in Georgia. She CAN get two years for it. He sleeps it off in the joint and goes home the next morning and she faces feloney charges. Hope he'll wait for her to get out!

It's a raw deal all around.

I find it stupid when women do that, it doesn't make any sence

But could they be doing it out of fear?

ie..a woman is been badly beaten, she calls 911, the brave guy that is beating her up, see's a cop at the door, and tells her if he has to go to jail he will kill her when he gets out!

She panics at this and when the cop goes to take the guy away, she puts up a fight, and crys out.... - "NOOOO don't take my BF away...please nooooooooo, I love him officer, get your hands off him" translated - " Thank god you are here, please take him away, I have had enough, I'm so scared he might kill me, he has lost it, lock the SOB up officer"

The trouble with some women, they find a guy and he is so loving and sweet, when he moves in with them, his feet soon are under the table, then the violence occurs, and the woman has allready fallen too deep for this guy and can't understand his mood swings.
So when he beats her up, she is hurt both physically & mentally, and when he is taken away she crys that she wants him back, and blames herself for all of her beatings thinking she has failed him in some way...!

For those women that do this and act this way I pitty them, also the men that get beaten by their mad girlfriends.

I had an ex BF that used to beat me up, and I was once in a situation where I had my cell phone in my hand about to call the cops and just at that moment he grabed my cell phone and beat me some more, as I lay on the ground, something told me that I can't keep on going like this, and he wont stop no matter how many times I call the cops, the SOB would keep hurting me.
Just at that moment he was so brave to kick me again when I was down, and without thinking, I grabed his foot in the process and pulled him down with me, I gor up and layed my boot into him several times and winded up leaving him in the same heap he used to leave me, and I leaned over him and said - "If you ever lay a finger on me again, it will be you that will be calling the cops my friend not me" I walked away from him that day and I felt the fear leave me and I felt relieved, it was a weird but good feeling, and I thought of all of those times when I used to sit and take the beatings and cry myself to sleep.

I don't have to do that anymore, and I am so happy I finally had the nerve to fight back. He came crawling back to me a few days later, and I didn't want to know and told him to take a hike. That was a long time ago, my new BF Gary hasn't once lifted a finger to me and I feel a lot happier these days...the fear is gone!