Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

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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.

We demand proper treatment of US citizens abroad all the time. Trump should do so.

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Anonymous wrote:Are all the girls Indian?

I think so. Either very selfish culture or guilty of something they got out immediately

oh stop. 100% more likely they had quick and prudent advice of their own council (to include one of their parents) to get the hell out of there asap. And it worked!

Or they they stuck to their return flight dates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are all the girls Indian?

I think so. Either very selfish culture or guilty of something they got out immediately

oh stop. 100% more likely they had quick and prudent advice of their own council (to include one of their parents) to get the hell out of there asap. And it worked!

Or they they stuck to their return flight dates.

result is the same. they left Sudiksha behind. again.

[Anonymous]

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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.

If memory serves, the girls went on some type of boating excursion, and left early. Their phones likely did not have service.

It really is not Ribe and Carter’s responsibility to report her missing at the hotel- she was a girl they had just met the night before. Not their responsibility to keep track of her. They almost certainly didn’t even know her last name ffs. And odds were she crashed in another friend’s room or fell asleep in a pool chair (which they would all have a laugh about later). Not missing or dead.

It is so easy to look back and find so much of this highly alarming (knowing what we know now) but at the time it simply wasn’t alarming to any of these students and I can see why. As utterly stupid & irresponsible as it is, none of this would be super out of the ordinary among partying college students.

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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.

What bullshit is this? Do you even know how the world works. You live in a bubble and think you know everything

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are all the girls Indian?

I think so. Either very selfish culture or guilty of something they got out immediately

LE didn’t think they had a role in her disappearance so they were let go. They did make some bad decisions regarding leaving a friend behind.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why his name is public and their names are not. Everyone is a legal adult.

His name is public because according to US LE, he is a person of interest (POI). One reason is because he was possibly the last one to have seen her that morning. Her friends left to return to hotel so they were not probably the last to see her since Ribe was supposedly still at the beach with her. Notice they also didn't list the other man who had also gone out to the beach with this group because he was seen on video going back to hotel with her friends.

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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?

You think this person EVER went on spring break? Or had any fun?

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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?

I mean, I'm in the camp of thinking this was a drowning and the man is not guilty, but you know this is all going down in the Dominican Republic right? It's so American to think the US Constitution applies to investigations in foreign countries.

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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?

How is he not being treated as a citizen of the US? And what rights are "attributed" to him? If you think that the rights conferred upon you by the US constituion some how travel with you overseas, you are wrong. Also, the US Embassy staff there is not hired to help out US citizens who get in trouble. They'll send you a list of local lawyers. That's about it.

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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?

Do you think those rights travel with you? Hint: They don't. You get whatever rights the country you are in decides you get. The US constitution is irrelevant.

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Anonymous wrote:There is someone who posts obsessively on this thread over and over accusing the boy of killing her, who is extremely invested in the girls names being withheld and extremely invested in the girls being completely exonerated and in her being murdered, not drowned. This person is an ESL speaker/writer with distinctive syntax. One of the Bad Friends is from Loudoun. I just think that's interesting.

You are the obsessed person here. Did you take your meds today

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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?

How is he not being treated as a citizen of the US? And what rights are "attributed" to him? If you think that the rights conferred upon you by the US constituion some how travel with you overseas, you are wrong. Also, the US Embassy staff there is not hired to help out US citizens who get in trouble. They'll send you a list of local lawyers. That's about it.

And he has 2.

[Anonymous]

I think people need to realize that nearly all parties involved (other than Ribe’s family) would like to see this blamed on foul play by Ribe.

It would make the girl’s family and friends feel better (this isn’t her fault, this isn’t the friends’ fault, it is HIS fault). Certainly the resort and the DR would like to see this pinned on him as well (DR is safe! This resort is safe! no fault of ours!). They don’t want any bad press, particularly considering their dependence on tourism.

Not saying Ribe couldn’t be guilty. Of course it is possible. But understand the circumstances of this at least.

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Anonymous wrote:Are all the girls Indian?

I think so. Either very selfish culture or guilty of something they got out immediately

oh stop. 100% more likely they had quick and prudent advice of their own council (to include one of their parents) to get the hell out of there asap. And it worked!

Or they they stuck to their return flight dates.

I would not feel safe after friend disappeared, nor would I want to party on. Leaving was sensible.