Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

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Anonymous wrote:So how would you know you were the last person to see someone (especially a college woman you'd just drunkenly met hours earlier)? And you're to take responsibility when the FIVE traveling companions of the woman are kinda in a rush to meet their boat excursion sailaway time?

I think someone is desperately trying to keep suspicion on the boy. Someone familiar with DCUM.

Why? That is the question.

Because the family is important. And there’s no way their daughter could have made a series of bad choices (getting wasted, swimming in the ocean in the dark wasted, etc) that may have resulted in her demise. So it has to be someone else’s fault.

What do you mean the family is important?

IKR. Every so often a PP proclaims the "importance" of this family but none of us have ever heard of them and the PP never explains. Well, PP?

DP. But the whole point of having a good reputation is that in times like this it counts.

This is not India. Doesn’t matter how “important” her family is.

Maybe it's like that saying- you can take the Indian out of India, but you can't take the Indian out of them (or something like that)? You can substitute another country, it could probably apply to other immigrants or countries as well. Maybe their Indian community wherever they may live cares?

Their community has closed ranks around the friends. Nothing is being said about any of them, they're not speaking, and they left DR right away. No press conference crying about where is my best friend, please come home, we miss you and love you. NOTHING. The community has surrounded them and protecting them. They're perfectly fine with someone outside of their community taking the fall, very possibly for a crime he didn't commit, as long as it means no consequences for them and that their lives and continue on the previously set trajectory. The parents of the missing woman aren't even speaking out whatsoever against the friends.

I do not think this makes their community unique and it isn't intended to be racist in any way; this type of behavior is seen in many, MANY different tight knit communities.

Then put pressure on these girls to come forward….Ananya Chilakamarai, also from Loudoun and a TJ grad.

Are there issues with their visa status why are they protecting them. This is some shady stuff.

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I'd bring my kid home in this situation. Demand it even. Not trusting some banana republic cops. No matter how much she protested.

Lol to thinking every immigrant has an issue with visa status but not surprising what could you expect why we have the Pres we have currently.

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Anonymous wrote:So how would you know you were the last person to see someone (especially a college woman you'd just drunkenly met hours earlier)? And you're to take responsibility when the FIVE traveling companions of the woman are kinda in a rush to meet their boat excursion sailaway time?

He was expected to report when the girlfriends were off for a day trip?

Most trained lifeguards report a near drowning esp if the person then disappears and could be in the water or medical trouble.

He and Carter alone knew she was missing as of the time Ribe got back.

They withheld that info from authorities and her friends.

As soon as friends knew she was missing the raised alert with resort and her family.

He is the one who benefited from delay. What did he do all day? What was he holding in his pocket walking back? It wasn’t a phone or his room key.

How would they know she was missing? they might have though she went back to her room and was sleeping, no?

No, they didn’t. They (very reasonably) assumed she had gone back to her room.

No, Ribe told him they had reached out to Carter that am looking for her.

Ribe and Johnson alone knew she was missing as of 10 am and did not tell the friends or raise an alarm.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been 12 days of detention and questioning. Charge or release him. US needs to demand his return. If/when DR chooses to charge him, I'm confident our dear leader will ship him back in chains.

If we still have a Constitution, we are all entitled to certain presumptions including innocent until proven guilty. He needs to be released. Where's US LE now?

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How would the boys know she was missing?? they could have assumed she was sleeping in her room no??

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why people are blaming the guy, and her friends, for not keeping close track of her (as if she were a child)- particularly when they too, were all drinking.

It was very very common in college for one of us to “go home with a guy” or “crash somewhere else” or whatever. In the AM people were either sleeping in, or had places to be. A person would not necessarily be missed until afternoon at the earliest. Which seemed to be the case here.

Now many could say “how terrible, so irresponsible!” and they would not be wrong. It IS irresponsible. And dangerous! But it is not uncommon behavior among partying college kids at all. Particularly if this activity is in a confined space like a college campus or resort (as opposed to going out to clubs etc or somewhere more unusual).

I think it is very understandable (and very believable) that no one realized she was missing until later in the day. They all thought she was with others and/or sleeping, and this would not really be considered unusual college behavior.

Agree. This is all very normal college student behavior. As someone noted in this thread previously, college kids + alcohol often ends tragically (drunk driving deaths, frat hazing, drowning).

The only person to blame is the girl herself, who got drunk and then went swimming in the ocean in the dark. She's an adult and responsible for the consequences of her own choices.

Drunk men kill women all the time. DR is right to investigate.

There is a point of intoxication where it is possible to deliberately murder someone. That point is well before the PUKING phase of intoxication. He vomited for a long time at the bar. So did she. Then they went to beach, where he vomited more. They were literally too drunk to hook up. Its honestly surprising any of them remember anything at all about what happened at that point.

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Anonymous wrote:Comment that has some interesting detail if it is true.

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Hello from D.R. and Thanks for the video!. Have you seen the video from the bar?, that video shows that these kids were extremely intoxicated before going to the beach. I want to talk about a couple of points just to put things in perspective:
1-) The figure "person of interest" does not exist here and has not been used in this case by the local authorities, I am not sure way the international press keep mentioning it.
2-) Joshua Riibe has not been interrogated without a lawyer while in custody, he was asked questions while in the hotel, the beach, etc. but no in custody. Once in custody, his lawyers were present and you can bet they know English (unlike me, sorry about my bad English by the way).
3-) For Joshua Riibe there is a big problem right now: The new Attorney General has taken the case to herself and is now the person directing the investigation, she is fierce, like very fierce, the kind of person (this is my opinion only) that think of you of guilty and you have to prove her wrong. She is extremely loved here because she was the main persecutor of the corrupt politicians of the previous government that ended with a lot of prominent people in jail. She interrogated him in his hotel room for 6 hours.
4-) About the confiscated passport, Dominican authorities don't use this to prevent you to leave the country using the airport (for that the norm is a "migration alert" and you won't be able to leave, trust me, no matter if you have your passport) this is more to prevent a person to leave the island crossing the border with Haiti and then take a flight from there.
5) If you need some example of how fierce the Attorney General is, here is one: last night at 2 a.m., Joshua Riibe was taken to the beach to recreate the events of that sad day. Think about that for a second, 2 a.m.!.

Any of the numerous US-based LE currently in DR able to protect his rights?

What rights? Those that are granted by the US are your rights only in the US. So why would a US anybody be prtecting his rights (those that are granted by the DR)?

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Anonymous wrote:So how would you know you were the last person to see someone (especially a college woman you'd just drunkenly met hours earlier)? And you're to take responsibility when the FIVE traveling companions of the woman are kinda in a rush to meet their boat excursion sailaway time?

I think someone is desperately trying to keep suspicion on the boy. Someone familiar with DCUM.

Why? That is the question.

Because the family is important. And there’s no way their daughter could have made a series of bad choices (getting wasted, swimming in the ocean in the dark wasted, etc) that may have resulted in her demise. So it has to be someone else’s fault.

What do you mean the family is important?

IKR. Every so often a PP proclaims the "importance" of this family but none of us have ever heard of them and the PP never explains. Well, PP?

DP. But the whole point of having a good reputation is that in times like this it counts.

This is not India. Doesn’t matter how “important” her family is.

Maybe it's like that saying- you can take the Indian out of India, but you can't take the Indian out of them (or something like that)? You can substitute another country, it could probably apply to other immigrants or countries as well. Maybe their Indian community wherever they may live cares?

Their community has closed ranks around the friends. Nothing is being said about any of them, they're not speaking, and they left DR right away. No press conference crying about where is my best friend, please come home, we miss you and love you. NOTHING. The community has surrounded them and protecting them. They're perfectly fine with someone outside of their community taking the fall, very possibly for a crime he didn't commit, as long as it means no consequences for them and that their lives and continue on the previously set trajectory. The parents of the missing woman aren't even speaking out whatsoever against the friends.

I do not think this makes their community unique and it isn't intended to be racist in any way; this type of behavior is seen in many, MANY different tight knit communities.

Silence speaks volumes. Good or bad whatever.

They have already given their stories it seems to LE. They probably got the hell out of the country because they don't want to suffer too, or vacation in a place that based on some of the travel reviews -eek. Or and most likely they had to resume classes after spring break. They must be in shock or feeling guilty for various reasons, whether they were "best" friends or not, they have lost a friend temporarily or forever. Or they have been advised to protect "their" community's image which at this point is so ridonc (yes, okay, Indian young women also party get over it - there's a young woman missing. Or they have all been advised not to speak to media they don't want attention drawn to them for safety reasons, or possibly if they know other things ("their" culture related things or possibly related to India/Indian embassy if that is whom the young woman's parents had to contact if it was alleged that US authorities couldn't or wouldn't help them initially in the DR etc..). And their stories could affect the US's POI as he recollects his memories.

It's the trashy White man she was with who probably drowned her when she resisted his advances. That is the problem.

Sudiksha's behavior was trashy as well. So much blame is thrown at everyone except the very foolish girl who was wasted and went near the water with strange men.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been 12 days of detention and questioning. Charge or release him. US needs to demand his return. If/when DR chooses to charge him, I'm confident our dear leader will ship him back in chains.

Why is he not being treated as a citizen of the US, and the rights attributed to them? Does his family not have $$ or the right connections?

Are you an Indian?
He is apparently being treated how they treat a non-DR citizen in their country. Reports were that he is not considered a person of interest by DR terms, that's Us speak. He is possibly the last one to have seen the missing woman.

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Anonymous wrote:So how would you know you were the last person to see someone (especially a college woman you'd just drunkenly met hours earlier)? And you're to take responsibility when the FIVE traveling companions of the woman are kinda in a rush to meet their boat excursion sailaway time?

I think someone is desperately trying to keep suspicion on the boy. Someone familiar with DCUM.

Why? That is the question.

Because the family is important. And there’s no way their daughter could have made a series of bad choices (getting wasted, swimming in the ocean in the dark wasted, etc) that may have resulted in her demise. So it has to be someone else’s fault.

What do you mean the family is important?

IKR. Every so often a PP proclaims the "importance" of this family but none of us have ever heard of them and the PP never explains. Well, PP?

DP. But the whole point of having a good reputation is that in times like this it counts.

This is not India. Doesn’t matter how “important” her family is.

Maybe it's like that saying- you can take the Indian out of India, but you can't take the Indian out of them (or something like that)? You can substitute another country, it could probably apply to other immigrants or countries as well. Maybe their Indian community wherever they may live cares?

Their community has closed ranks around the friends. Nothing is being said about any of them, they're not speaking, and they left DR right away. No press conference crying about where is my best friend, please come home, we miss you and love you. NOTHING. The community has surrounded them and protecting them. They're perfectly fine with someone outside of their community taking the fall, very possibly for a crime he didn't commit, as long as it means no consequences for them and that their lives and continue on the previously set trajectory. The parents of the missing woman aren't even speaking out whatsoever against the friends.

I do not think this makes their community unique and it isn't intended to be racist in any way; this type of behavior is seen in many, MANY different tight knit communities.

Silence speaks volumes. Good or bad whatever.

They have already given their stories it seems to LE. They probably got the hell out of the country because they don't want to suffer too, or vacation in a place that based on some of the travel reviews -eek. Or and most likely they had to resume classes after spring break. They must be in shock or feeling guilty for various reasons, whether they were "best" friends or not, they have lost a friend temporarily or forever. Or they have been advised to protect "their" community's image which at this point is so ridonc (yes, okay, Indian young women also party get over it - there's a young woman missing. Or they have all been advised not to speak to media they don't want attention drawn to them for safety reasons, or possibly if they know other things ("their" culture related things or possibly related to India/Indian embassy if that is whom the young woman's parents had to contact if it was alleged that US authorities couldn't or wouldn't help them initially in the DR etc..). And their stories could affect the US's POI as he recollects his memories.

It's the trashy White man she was with who probably drowned her when she resisted his advances. That is the problem.

Sudiksha's behavior was trashy as well. So much blame is thrown at everyone except the very foolish girl who was wasted and went near the water with strange men.

Its not "trashy". This is normal college student behavior. She has a right to make her own life choices and if she wants to hang out on the beach with a stranger, that's her call. She made a tragic decision to swim in dangerous water while completely. intoxicated.

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Anonymous wrote:So how would you know you were the last person to see someone (especially a college woman you'd just drunkenly met hours earlier)? And you're to take responsibility when the FIVE traveling companions of the woman are kinda in a rush to meet their boat excursion sailaway time?

I think someone is desperately trying to keep suspicion on the boy. Someone familiar with DCUM.

Why? That is the question.

Because the family is important. And there’s no way their daughter could have made a series of bad choices (getting wasted, swimming in the ocean in the dark wasted, etc) that may have resulted in her demise. So it has to be someone else’s fault.

What do you mean the family is important?

IKR. Every so often a PP proclaims the "importance" of this family but none of us have ever heard of them and the PP never explains. Well, PP?

DP. But the whole point of having a good reputation is that in times like this it counts.

This is not India. Doesn’t matter how “important” her family is.

Maybe it's like that saying- you can take the Indian out of India, but you can't take the Indian out of them (or something like that)? You can substitute another country, it could probably apply to other immigrants or countries as well. Maybe their Indian community wherever they may live cares?

Their community has closed ranks around the friends. Nothing is being said about any of them, they're not speaking, and they left DR right away. No press conference crying about where is my best friend, please come home, we miss you and love you. NOTHING. The community has surrounded them and protecting them. They're perfectly fine with someone outside of their community taking the fall, very possibly for a crime he didn't commit, as long as it means no consequences for them and that their lives and continue on the previously set trajectory. The parents of the missing woman aren't even speaking out whatsoever against the friends.

I do not think this makes their community unique and it isn't intended to be racist in any way; this type of behavior is seen in many, MANY different tight knit communities.

Silence speaks volumes. Good or bad whatever.

They have already given their stories it seems to LE. They probably got the hell out of the country because they don't want to suffer too, or vacation in a place that based on some of the travel reviews -eek. Or and most likely they had to resume classes after spring break. They must be in shock or feeling guilty for various reasons, whether they were "best" friends or not, they have lost a friend temporarily or forever. Or they have been advised to protect "their" community's image which at this point is so ridonc (yes, okay, Indian young women also party get over it - there's a young woman missing. Or they have all been advised not to speak to media they don't want attention drawn to them for safety reasons, or possibly if they know other things ("their" culture related things or possibly related to India/Indian embassy if that is whom the young woman's parents had to contact if it was alleged that US authorities couldn't or wouldn't help them initially in the DR etc..). And their stories could affect the US's POI as he recollects his memories.

It's the trashy White man she was with who probably drowned her when she resisted his advances. That is the problem.

Sudiksha's behavior was trashy as well. So much blame is thrown at everyone except the very foolish girl who was wasted and went near the water with strange men.

Its not "trashy". This is normal college student behavior. She has a right to make her own life choices and if she wants to hang out on the beach with a stranger, that's her call. She made a tragic decision to swim in dangerous water while completely. intoxicated.

If that is not trashy, then the White guy is not trash as well. You cannot have a rule for Indian girls and a different standard for White guys.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been 12 days of detention and questioning. Charge or release him. US needs to demand his return. If/when DR chooses to charge him, I'm confident our dear leader will ship him back in chains.

If we still have a Constitution, we are all entitled to certain presumptions including innocent until proven guilty. He needs to be released. Where's US LE now?

If this family had any connection whatsoever, trump would be tweeting his fat finger so fast demanding his release.

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Anonymous wrote:How would the boys know she was missing?? they could have assumed she was sleeping in her room no??

Ribe told investigators that Carter told him they had texted looking for her.

So as of the time Ribe returned at 10am and had not seen her for hours, both he and Carter knew she was missing. If Ribe did not know before.

That information was not conveyed to the friends nor to resort.

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Anonymous wrote:How would the boys know she was missing?? they could have assumed she was sleeping in her room no??

Ribe told investigators that Carter told him they had texted looking for her.

So as of the time Ribe returned at 10am and had not seen her for hours, both he and Carter knew she was missing. If Ribe did not know before.

That information was not conveyed to the friends nor to resort.

So the girls ran off to their day trip excursion. Leaving the drunk dudes they just met to worry about their bestie Sudiksha.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been 12 days of detention and questioning. Charge or release him. US needs to demand his return. If/when DR chooses to charge him, I'm confident our dear leader will ship him back in chains.

If we still have a Constitution, we are all entitled to certain presumptions including innocent until proven guilty. He needs to be released. Where's US LE now?

If this family had any connection whatsoever, trump would be tweeting his fat finger so fast demanding his release.

He is not in US. Chose to go to DR.

He has lawyers and DR law is being followed.

I’m sure WH is aware, huge news story and HS and FBI are involved in the investigation. The DR is in charge.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do 20 year olds think drinking to all hours of the morning is fun? I will never understand it. They are drinking and throwing up in the video and yet keep drinking.

Are you a 50 year old? Did you forget 30 years ago when you may have also? Or did the drinking damage your memory like it did for the rest of us?