Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

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Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if the parents now hold a press conference here in the U.S., explain carefully to the public that neither the girls NOR the young man are responsible for her drowning. Perhaps they can add the young man went to great lengths to try to be helpful. They should ask the Dominican Republic to release the poor boy so he can go back to his studies.

While it's understandable that in their shock and embarrassment and grief they were suggesting their daughter might have been the victim of trafficking or murder, they need to be cognizant these accusations were picked up by the media to outright accuse the innocent young man. They need to publicly thank him, and offer an apology to him for what the media and the Dominican Republic have put him through.

I realize the parents didn't ask for this and they reacted as loving and horrified parents. But there has to be a certain level of culpability on their part for what this boy has gone through. They need to take steps to help lift the cloud of blame from his good name so that it doesn't follow him for the rest of his life -- just as the Indian community has circled around the girls to protect them from fallout.

I hope that young man acquires an SOB lawyer to go after the Dominican Republic for detaining him illegally, and to go after the media for dragging his good name through the mud. The Indian community did a good job of protecting the girls. Those girls were more culpable than this boy, as they were the friends who had a responsibility to keep tabs on each other. The boy was there to have fun, no more, but he is the one who paid the price.

What I've learned from this incident is that the Dominican Republic has dangerous resorts full of crime. I read an account of a woman who got assaulted by a resort employee. I read of bars that routinely spike drinks. It goes on. This is a freaking dangerous destination.

May this tragedy be a reminder to American college kids that these excursion can turn deadly in a moment. May the girl's soul rest in peace.

Press conference? Geez. They are probably not the reason the POI was detained and remained there so why should they "clear" him?

+1. Circled the wagons and to deflect from their culpability and abandonment, smeared an innocent boy, who probably risked his own life in a futile attempt to save her. The boy is honorable, her "friends" are rubbish.

Her friends are not rubbish. Had they been convinced to stay on the beach, they may have attempted to save her and there would be a lot more drownings. They did nothing wrong.

No need for phantom hypotheticals of some random outside force - we know for certain some things the girls did decide. Five of them walked to the beach from the hotel bar at 4am with an obviously unsteady Sudisksha walking arm-in-arm with a drunk dude they'd just met; the 5 of them left Sudiksha at the red flag beach with treacherous water and took Sudiska's phone with them; with Sudiksha's whereabouts unknown, the 5 of them continued on to their day excursion; and, they all left Sudisksha behind one final time as they left the island to fly home.

Why did they take her phone? Were they bullying her? Taking someone's phone in a strange country and then leaving them alone with a guy? It's very weird. iPhones have been water proof for years now.

It’s been said they brought her phone back to the room so she would appear to be sleeping if her parents checked her location.

Yikes. This is a good reminder to tell your kids you won’t be mad at them for something like this. I actually got my kid an Apple Watch with separate data plan for her HS graduation because I wanted an additional way for her to be able to call for help and//or location tracked if she lost her phone. I would put a AirTag under her skin if I could! I don’t care if she’s sleeping around — I just want to be able to find her!

her parents would say that to her if they could. But at that moment, the grouo of young women may not have thought that

Having a phone or watch would not have saved her, they would have been on the beach. She was in water.

We will never know.

How would a watch or phone work once subjected to water and waves? If on the beach would be of no use when drowning, get it?

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Ignore the liable bad friends troll.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if the parents now hold a press conference here in the U.S., explain carefully to the public that neither the girls NOR the young man are responsible for her drowning. Perhaps they can add the young man went to great lengths to try to be helpful. They should ask the Dominican Republic to release the poor boy so he can go back to his studies.

While it's understandable that in their shock and embarrassment and grief they were suggesting their daughter might have been the victim of trafficking or murder, they need to be cognizant these accusations were picked up by the media to outright accuse the innocent young man. They need to publicly thank him, and offer an apology to him for what the media and the Dominican Republic have put him through.

I realize the parents didn't ask for this and they reacted as loving and horrified parents. But there has to be a certain level of culpability on their part for what this boy has gone through. They need to take steps to help lift the cloud of blame from his good name so that it doesn't follow him for the rest of his life -- just as the Indian community has circled around the girls to protect them from fallout.

I hope that young man acquires an SOB lawyer to go after the Dominican Republic for detaining him illegally, and to go after the media for dragging his good name through the mud. The Indian community did a good job of protecting the girls. Those girls were more culpable than this boy, as they were the friends who had a responsibility to keep tabs on each other. The boy was there to have fun, no more, but he is the one who paid the price.

What I've learned from this incident is that the Dominican Republic has dangerous resorts full of crime. I read an account of a woman who got assaulted by a resort employee. I read of bars that routinely spike drinks. It goes on. This is a freaking dangerous destination.

May this tragedy be a reminder to American college kids that these excursion can turn deadly in a moment. May the girl's soul rest in peace.

Press conference? Geez. They are probably not the reason the POI was detained and remained there so why should they "clear" him?

+1. Circled the wagons and to deflect from their culpability and abandonment, smeared an innocent boy, who probably risked his own life in a futile attempt to save her. The boy is honorable, her "friends" are rubbish.

Her friends are not rubbish. Had they been convinced to stay on the beach, they may have attempted to save her and there would be a lot more drownings. They did nothing wrong.

No need for phantom hypotheticals of some random outside force - we know for certain some things the girls did decide. Five of them walked to the beach from the hotel bar at 4am with an obviously unsteady Sudisksha walking arm-in-arm with a drunk dude they'd just met; the 5 of them left Sudiksha at the red flag beach with treacherous water and took Sudiska's phone with them; with Sudiksha's whereabouts unknown, the 5 of them continued on to their day excursion; and, they all left Sudisksha behind one final time as they left the island to fly home.

Why did they take her phone? Were they bullying her? Taking someone's phone in a strange country and then leaving them alone with a guy? It's very weird. iPhones have been water proof for years now.

It’s been said they brought her phone back to the room so she would appear to be sleeping if her parents checked her location.

Yikes. This is a good reminder to tell your kids you won’t be mad at them for something like this. I actually got my kid an Apple Watch with separate data plan for her HS graduation because I wanted an additional way for her to be able to call for help and//or location tracked if she lost her phone. I would put a AirTag under her skin if I could! I don’t care if she’s sleeping around — I just want to be able to find her!

her parents would say that to her if they could. But at that moment, the grouo of young women may not have thought that

Having a phone or watch would not have saved her, they would have been on the beach. She was in water.

We will never know.

How would a watch or phone work once subjected to water and waves? If on the beach would be of no use when drowning, get it?

I can imagine lots of scenarios but the fact remains that we don't know exactly what happened and therefore we will never know if a phone would have been of any use. As to why she didn't have the phone with her, that seems to have been a questions that was or should have been asked of the girlfriends. But for whatever reason the public has not heard their response.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if the parents now hold a press conference here in the U.S., explain carefully to the public that neither the girls NOR the young man are responsible for her drowning. Perhaps they can add the young man went to great lengths to try to be helpful. They should ask the Dominican Republic to release the poor boy so he can go back to his studies.

While it's understandable that in their shock and embarrassment and grief they were suggesting their daughter might have been the victim of trafficking or murder, they need to be cognizant these accusations were picked up by the media to outright accuse the innocent young man. They need to publicly thank him, and offer an apology to him for what the media and the Dominican Republic have put him through.

I realize the parents didn't ask for this and they reacted as loving and horrified parents. But there has to be a certain level of culpability on their part for what this boy has gone through. They need to take steps to help lift the cloud of blame from his good name so that it doesn't follow him for the rest of his life -- just as the Indian community has circled around the girls to protect them from fallout.

I hope that young man acquires an SOB lawyer to go after the Dominican Republic for detaining him illegally, and to go after the media for dragging his good name through the mud. The Indian community did a good job of protecting the girls. Those girls were more culpable than this boy, as they were the friends who had a responsibility to keep tabs on each other. The boy was there to have fun, no more, but he is the one who paid the price.

What I've learned from this incident is that the Dominican Republic has dangerous resorts full of crime. I read an account of a woman who got assaulted by a resort employee. I read of bars that routinely spike drinks. It goes on. This is a freaking dangerous destination.

May this tragedy be a reminder to American college kids that these excursion can turn deadly in a moment. May the girl's soul rest in peace.

Press conference? Geez. They are probably not the reason the POI was detained and remained there so why should they "clear" him?

+1. Circled the wagons and to deflect from their culpability and abandonment, smeared an innocent boy, who probably risked his own life in a futile attempt to save her. The boy is honorable, her "friends" are rubbish.

Her friends are not rubbish. Had they been convinced to stay on the beach, they may have attempted to save her and there would be a lot more drownings. They did nothing wrong.

No need for phantom hypotheticals of some random outside force - we know for certain some things the girls did decide. Five of them walked to the beach from the hotel bar at 4am with an obviously unsteady Sudisksha walking arm-in-arm with a drunk dude they'd just met; the 5 of them left Sudiksha at the red flag beach with treacherous water and took Sudiska's phone with them; with Sudiksha's whereabouts unknown, the 5 of them continued on to their day excursion; and, they all left Sudisksha behind one final time as they left the island to fly home.

Why did they take her phone? Were they bullying her? Taking someone's phone in a strange country and then leaving them alone with a guy? It's very weird. iPhones have been water proof for years now.

It’s been said they brought her phone back to the room so she would appear to be sleeping if her parents checked her location.

Wow! So her friends were not just encouraging her to go hook up with the strange boy, they were complicit in helping her keep it from her parents. Safe bet they were peer-pressuring her to over drink too. Terrible friends. If I were her parents I could never stand to be around them ever again.

These are not friends. And they will be held accountable.

You are naive and ridiculous to think grown adults are supposed to keep other adults from making their own decisions.

Exactly. What were they supposed to do? Kidnap her against her will or call her parents? They all were probably sleepy, tired and drunk themselves and no more able to understand the consequences than she did.

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Anonymous wrote:Ignore the liable bad friends troll.

It’s not trolling. Dead battery or not, I don’t know anyone, especially a college kid, who gives their phone to friends. It’s very bizarre and sounds logical that she/they did so to dupe parent tracking.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if the parents now hold a press conference here in the U.S., explain carefully to the public that neither the girls NOR the young man are responsible for her drowning. Perhaps they can add the young man went to great lengths to try to be helpful. They should ask the Dominican Republic to release the poor boy so he can go back to his studies.

While it's understandable that in their shock and embarrassment and grief they were suggesting their daughter might have been the victim of trafficking or murder, they need to be cognizant these accusations were picked up by the media to outright accuse the innocent young man. They need to publicly thank him, and offer an apology to him for what the media and the Dominican Republic have put him through.

I realize the parents didn't ask for this and they reacted as loving and horrified parents. But there has to be a certain level of culpability on their part for what this boy has gone through. They need to take steps to help lift the cloud of blame from his good name so that it doesn't follow him for the rest of his life -- just as the Indian community has circled around the girls to protect them from fallout.

I hope that young man acquires an SOB lawyer to go after the Dominican Republic for detaining him illegally, and to go after the media for dragging his good name through the mud. The Indian community did a good job of protecting the girls. Those girls were more culpable than this boy, as they were the friends who had a responsibility to keep tabs on each other. The boy was there to have fun, no more, but he is the one who paid the price.

What I've learned from this incident is that the Dominican Republic has dangerous resorts full of crime. I read an account of a woman who got assaulted by a resort employee. I read of bars that routinely spike drinks. It goes on. This is a freaking dangerous destination.

May this tragedy be a reminder to American college kids that these excursion can turn deadly in a moment. May the girl's soul rest in peace.

Press conference? Geez. They are probably not the reason the POI was detained and remained there so why should they "clear" him?

+1. Circled the wagons and to deflect from their culpability and abandonment, smeared an innocent boy, who probably risked his own life in a futile attempt to save her. The boy is honorable, her "friends" are rubbish.

Her friends are not rubbish. Had they been convinced to stay on the beach, they may have attempted to save her and there would be a lot more drownings. They did nothing wrong.

No need for phantom hypotheticals of some random outside force - we know for certain some things the girls did decide. Five of them walked to the beach from the hotel bar at 4am with an obviously unsteady Sudisksha walking arm-in-arm with a drunk dude they'd just met; the 5 of them left Sudiksha at the red flag beach with treacherous water and took Sudiska's phone with them; with Sudiksha's whereabouts unknown, the 5 of them continued on to their day excursion; and, they all left Sudisksha behind one final time as they left the island to fly home.

Why did they take her phone? Were they bullying her? Taking someone's phone in a strange country and then leaving them alone with a guy? It's very weird. iPhones have been water proof for years now.

What are you talking about? I have not seen accusations of bullying. And two articles and a story on the news all said her phone wasn't with her because it ran out of charge due to the power outage.

You’ve never seen a group of girls pressure a goodie two-shoes to get too drunk and hook up with a boy? Nothing makes sense about why they took her phone, alleged dead battery or not. Nor them continuing on their boat trip while she was missing and they had her phone. Very weird.

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Lot's of ghouls on this thread!

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Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if the parents now hold a press conference here in the U.S., explain carefully to the public that neither the girls NOR the young man are responsible for her drowning. Perhaps they can add the young man went to great lengths to try to be helpful. They should ask the Dominican Republic to release the poor boy so he can go back to his studies.

While it's understandable that in their shock and embarrassment and grief they were suggesting their daughter might have been the victim of trafficking or murder, they need to be cognizant these accusations were picked up by the media to outright accuse the innocent young man. They need to publicly thank him, and offer an apology to him for what the media and the Dominican Republic have put him through.

I realize the parents didn't ask for this and they reacted as loving and horrified parents. But there has to be a certain level of culpability on their part for what this boy has gone through. They need to take steps to help lift the cloud of blame from his good name so that it doesn't follow him for the rest of his life -- just as the Indian community has circled around the girls to protect them from fallout.

I hope that young man acquires an SOB lawyer to go after the Dominican Republic for detaining him illegally, and to go after the media for dragging his good name through the mud. The Indian community did a good job of protecting the girls. Those girls were more culpable than this boy, as they were the friends who had a responsibility to keep tabs on each other. The boy was there to have fun, no more, but he is the one who paid the price.

What I've learned from this incident is that the Dominican Republic has dangerous resorts full of crime. I read an account of a woman who got assaulted by a resort employee. I read of bars that routinely spike drinks. It goes on. This is a freaking dangerous destination.

May this tragedy be a reminder to American college kids that these excursion can turn deadly in a moment. May the girl's soul rest in peace.

Press conference? Geez. They are probably not the reason the POI was detained and remained there so why should they "clear" him?

+1. Circled the wagons and to deflect from their culpability and abandonment, smeared an innocent boy, who probably risked his own life in a futile attempt to save her. The boy is honorable, her "friends" are rubbish.

Her friends are not rubbish. Had they been convinced to stay on the beach, they may have attempted to save her and there would be a lot more drownings. They did nothing wrong.

No need for phantom hypotheticals of some random outside force - we know for certain some things the girls did decide. Five of them walked to the beach from the hotel bar at 4am with an obviously unsteady Sudisksha walking arm-in-arm with a drunk dude they'd just met; the 5 of them left Sudiksha at the red flag beach with treacherous water and took Sudiska's phone with them; with Sudiksha's whereabouts unknown, the 5 of them continued on to their day excursion; and, they all left Sudisksha behind one final time as they left the island to fly home.

Why did they take her phone? Were they bullying her? Taking someone's phone in a strange country and then leaving them alone with a guy? It's very weird. iPhones have been water proof for years now.

It’s been said they brought her phone back to the room so she would appear to be sleeping if her parents checked her location.

Yikes. This is a good reminder to tell your kids you won’t be mad at them for something like this. I actually got my kid an Apple Watch with separate data plan for her HS graduation because I wanted an additional way for her to be able to call for help and//or location tracked if she lost her phone. I would put a AirTag under her skin if I could! I don’t care if she’s sleeping around — I just want to be able to find her!

her parents would say that to her if they could. But at that moment, the grouo of young women may not have thought that

Having a phone or watch would not have saved her, they would have been on the beach. She was in water.

Nothing we can buy can take the place of good judgment and kids are still learning.

All resorts should have overnight beach security.

Very sad.

The phone sitting there on the beach or in the bottom of the ocean would answer a lot of unknowns. And would have gotten a search started more quickly. If it was YOUR kid I bet you wouldn’t be casually dismissing the phone strangely being with her friends.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if the parents now hold a press conference here in the U.S., explain carefully to the public that neither the girls NOR the young man are responsible for her drowning. Perhaps they can add the young man went to great lengths to try to be helpful. They should ask the Dominican Republic to release the poor boy so he can go back to his studies.

While it's understandable that in their shock and embarrassment and grief they were suggesting their daughter might have been the victim of trafficking or murder, they need to be cognizant these accusations were picked up by the media to outright accuse the innocent young man. They need to publicly thank him, and offer an apology to him for what the media and the Dominican Republic have put him through.

I realize the parents didn't ask for this and they reacted as loving and horrified parents. But there has to be a certain level of culpability on their part for what this boy has gone through. They need to take steps to help lift the cloud of blame from his good name so that it doesn't follow him for the rest of his life -- just as the Indian community has circled around the girls to protect them from fallout.

I hope that young man acquires an SOB lawyer to go after the Dominican Republic for detaining him illegally, and to go after the media for dragging his good name through the mud. The Indian community did a good job of protecting the girls. Those girls were more culpable than this boy, as they were the friends who had a responsibility to keep tabs on each other. The boy was there to have fun, no more, but he is the one who paid the price.

What I've learned from this incident is that the Dominican Republic has dangerous resorts full of crime. I read an account of a woman who got assaulted by a resort employee. I read of bars that routinely spike drinks. It goes on. This is a freaking dangerous destination.

May this tragedy be a reminder to American college kids that these excursion can turn deadly in a moment. May the girl's soul rest in peace.

Press conference? Geez. They are probably not the reason the POI was detained and remained there so why should they "clear" him?

+1. Circled the wagons and to deflect from their culpability and abandonment, smeared an innocent boy, who probably risked his own life in a futile attempt to save her. The boy is honorable, her "friends" are rubbish.

Her friends are not rubbish. Had they been convinced to stay on the beach, they may have attempted to save her and there would be a lot more drownings. They did nothing wrong.

No need for phantom hypotheticals of some random outside force - we know for certain some things the girls did decide. Five of them walked to the beach from the hotel bar at 4am with an obviously unsteady Sudisksha walking arm-in-arm with a drunk dude they'd just met; the 5 of them left Sudiksha at the red flag beach with treacherous water and took Sudiska's phone with them; with Sudiksha's whereabouts unknown, the 5 of them continued on to their day excursion; and, they all left Sudisksha behind one final time as they left the island to fly home.

Why did they take her phone? Were they bullying her? Taking someone's phone in a strange country and then leaving them alone with a guy? It's very weird. iPhones have been water proof for years now.

It’s been said they brought her phone back to the room so she would appear to be sleeping if her parents checked her location.

Wow! So her friends were not just encouraging her to go hook up with the strange boy, they were complicit in helping her keep it from her parents. Safe bet they were peer-pressuring her to over drink too. Terrible friends. If I were her parents I could never stand to be around them ever again.

These are not friends. And they will be held accountable.

You are naive and ridiculous to think grown adults are supposed to keep other adults from making their own decisions.

Exactly. What were they supposed to do? Kidnap her against her will or call her parents? They all were probably sleepy, tired and drunk themselves and no more able to understand the consequences than she did.

Kidnap? No, but when your friend—girl or boy—is violently intoxicated you all ought to forcefully try to get them home safely. You don’t take their phone and let them go wander a beach, alone or with a boy.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if the parents now hold a press conference here in the U.S., explain carefully to the public that neither the girls NOR the young man are responsible for her drowning. Perhaps they can add the young man went to great lengths to try to be helpful. They should ask the Dominican Republic to release the poor boy so he can go back to his studies.

While it's understandable that in their shock and embarrassment and grief they were suggesting their daughter might have been the victim of trafficking or murder, they need to be cognizant these accusations were picked up by the media to outright accuse the innocent young man. They need to publicly thank him, and offer an apology to him for what the media and the Dominican Republic have put him through.

I realize the parents didn't ask for this and they reacted as loving and horrified parents. But there has to be a certain level of culpability on their part for what this boy has gone through. They need to take steps to help lift the cloud of blame from his good name so that it doesn't follow him for the rest of his life -- just as the Indian community has circled around the girls to protect them from fallout.

I hope that young man acquires an SOB lawyer to go after the Dominican Republic for detaining him illegally, and to go after the media for dragging his good name through the mud. The Indian community did a good job of protecting the girls. Those girls were more culpable than this boy, as they were the friends who had a responsibility to keep tabs on each other. The boy was there to have fun, no more, but he is the one who paid the price.

What I've learned from this incident is that the Dominican Republic has dangerous resorts full of crime. I read an account of a woman who got assaulted by a resort employee. I read of bars that routinely spike drinks. It goes on. This is a freaking dangerous destination.

May this tragedy be a reminder to American college kids that these excursion can turn deadly in a moment. May the girl's soul rest in peace.

Press conference? Geez. They are probably not the reason the POI was detained and remained there so why should they "clear" him?

+1. Circled the wagons and to deflect from their culpability and abandonment, smeared an innocent boy, who probably risked his own life in a futile attempt to save her. The boy is honorable, her "friends" are rubbish.

Her friends are not rubbish. Had they been convinced to stay on the beach, they may have attempted to save her and there would be a lot more drownings. They did nothing wrong.

No need for phantom hypotheticals of some random outside force - we know for certain some things the girls did decide. Five of them walked to the beach from the hotel bar at 4am with an obviously unsteady Sudisksha walking arm-in-arm with a drunk dude they'd just met; the 5 of them left Sudiksha at the red flag beach with treacherous water and took Sudiska's phone with them; with Sudiksha's whereabouts unknown, the 5 of them continued on to their day excursion; and, they all left Sudisksha behind one final time as they left the island to fly home.

Why did they take her phone? Were they bullying her? Taking someone's phone in a strange country and then leaving them alone with a guy? It's very weird. iPhones have been water proof for years now.

It’s been said they brought her phone back to the room so she would appear to be sleeping if her parents checked her location.

Yikes. This is a good reminder to tell your kids you won’t be mad at them for something like this. I actually got my kid an Apple Watch with separate data plan for her HS graduation because I wanted an additional way for her to be able to call for help and//or location tracked if she lost her phone. I would put a AirTag under her skin if I could! I don’t care if she’s sleeping around — I just want to be able to find her!

her parents would say that to her if they could. But at that moment, the grouo of young women may not have thought that

Having a phone or watch would not have saved her, they would have been on the beach. She was in water.

Nothing we can buy can take the place of good judgment and kids are still learning.

All resorts should have overnight beach security.

Very sad.

The phone sitting there on the beach or in the bottom of the ocean would answer a lot of unknowns. And would have gotten a search started more quickly. If it was YOUR kid I bet you wouldn’t be casually dismissing the phone strangely being with her friends.

What does the phone sitting on the chair answer?

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Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if the parents now hold a press conference here in the U.S., explain carefully to the public that neither the girls NOR the young man are responsible for her drowning. Perhaps they can add the young man went to great lengths to try to be helpful. They should ask the Dominican Republic to release the poor boy so he can go back to his studies.

While it's understandable that in their shock and embarrassment and grief they were suggesting their daughter might have been the victim of trafficking or murder, they need to be cognizant these accusations were picked up by the media to outright accuse the innocent young man. They need to publicly thank him, and offer an apology to him for what the media and the Dominican Republic have put him through.

I realize the parents didn't ask for this and they reacted as loving and horrified parents. But there has to be a certain level of culpability on their part for what this boy has gone through. They need to take steps to help lift the cloud of blame from his good name so that it doesn't follow him for the rest of his life -- just as the Indian community has circled around the girls to protect them from fallout.

I hope that young man acquires an SOB lawyer to go after the Dominican Republic for detaining him illegally, and to go after the media for dragging his good name through the mud. The Indian community did a good job of protecting the girls. Those girls were more culpable than this boy, as they were the friends who had a responsibility to keep tabs on each other. The boy was there to have fun, no more, but he is the one who paid the price.

What I've learned from this incident is that the Dominican Republic has dangerous resorts full of crime. I read an account of a woman who got assaulted by a resort employee. I read of bars that routinely spike drinks. It goes on. This is a freaking dangerous destination.

May this tragedy be a reminder to American college kids that these excursion can turn deadly in a moment. May the girl's soul rest in peace.

Press conference? Geez. They are probably not the reason the POI was detained and remained there so why should they "clear" him?

+1. Circled the wagons and to deflect from their culpability and abandonment, smeared an innocent boy, who probably risked his own life in a futile attempt to save her. The boy is honorable, her "friends" are rubbish.

Her friends are not rubbish. Had they been convinced to stay on the beach, they may have attempted to save her and there would be a lot more drownings. They did nothing wrong.

No need for phantom hypotheticals of some random outside force - we know for certain some things the girls did decide. Five of them walked to the beach from the hotel bar at 4am with an obviously unsteady Sudisksha walking arm-in-arm with a drunk dude they'd just met; the 5 of them left Sudiksha at the red flag beach with treacherous water and took Sudiska's phone with them; with Sudiksha's whereabouts unknown, the 5 of them continued on to their day excursion; and, they all left Sudisksha behind one final time as they left the island to fly home.

Why did they take her phone? Were they bullying her? Taking someone's phone in a strange country and then leaving them alone with a guy? It's very weird. iPhones have been water proof for years now.

What are you talking about? I have not seen accusations of bullying. And two articles and a story on the news all said her phone wasn't with her because it ran out of charge due to the power outage.

I read this many places too. People are just making $hit up for drama on here.

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I still maintained she drowned but it’s crazy how her body hasn’t been found and washed to shores. Now i wonder if the sharks got to it.

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The Ribe hearing is ongoing. Sounds like he may not be leaving imminently. Lots of posts in English and Spanish on X.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be nice if the parents now hold a press conference here in the U.S., explain carefully to the public that neither the girls NOR the young man are responsible for her drowning. Perhaps they can add the young man went to great lengths to try to be helpful. They should ask the Dominican Republic to release the poor boy so he can go back to his studies.

While it's understandable that in their shock and embarrassment and grief they were suggesting their daughter might have been the victim of trafficking or murder, they need to be cognizant these accusations were picked up by the media to outright accuse the innocent young man. They need to publicly thank him, and offer an apology to him for what the media and the Dominican Republic have put him through.

I realize the parents didn't ask for this and they reacted as loving and horrified parents. But there has to be a certain level of culpability on their part for what this boy has gone through. They need to take steps to help lift the cloud of blame from his good name so that it doesn't follow him for the rest of his life -- just as the Indian community has circled around the girls to protect them from fallout.

I hope that young man acquires an SOB lawyer to go after the Dominican Republic for detaining him illegally, and to go after the media for dragging his good name through the mud. The Indian community did a good job of protecting the girls. Those girls were more culpable than this boy, as they were the friends who had a responsibility to keep tabs on each other. The boy was there to have fun, no more, but he is the one who paid the price.

What I've learned from this incident is that the Dominican Republic has dangerous resorts full of crime. I read an account of a woman who got assaulted by a resort employee. I read of bars that routinely spike drinks. It goes on. This is a freaking dangerous destination.

May this tragedy be a reminder to American college kids that these excursion can turn deadly in a moment. May the girl's soul rest in peace.

Press conference? Geez. They are probably not the reason the POI was detained and remained there so why should they "clear" him?

+1. Circled the wagons and to deflect from their culpability and abandonment, smeared an innocent boy, who probably risked his own life in a futile attempt to save her. The boy is honorable, her "friends" are rubbish.

Her friends are not rubbish. Had they been convinced to stay on the beach, they may have attempted to save her and there would be a lot more drownings. They did nothing wrong.

No need for phantom hypotheticals of some random outside force - we know for certain some things the girls did decide. Five of them walked to the beach from the hotel bar at 4am with an obviously unsteady Sudisksha walking arm-in-arm with a drunk dude they'd just met; the 5 of them left Sudiksha at the red flag beach with treacherous water and took Sudiska's phone with them; with Sudiksha's whereabouts unknown, the 5 of them continued on to their day excursion; and, they all left Sudisksha behind one final time as they left the island to fly home.

Why did they take her phone? Were they bullying her? Taking someone's phone in a strange country and then leaving them alone with a guy? It's very weird. iPhones have been water proof for years now.

It’s been said they brought her phone back to the room so she would appear to be sleeping if her parents checked her location.

Yikes. This is a good reminder to tell your kids you won’t be mad at them for something like this. I actually got my kid an Apple Watch with separate data plan for her HS graduation because I wanted an additional way for her to be able to call for help and//or location tracked if she lost her phone. I would put a AirTag under her skin if I could! I don’t care if she’s sleeping around — I just want to be able to find her!

her parents would say that to her if they could. But at that moment, the grouo of young women may not have thought that

Having a phone or watch would not have saved her, they would have been on the beach. She was in water.

Nothing we can buy can take the place of good judgment and kids are still learning.

All resorts should have overnight beach security.

Very sad.

The phone sitting there on the beach or in the bottom of the ocean would answer a lot of unknowns. And would have gotten a search started more quickly. If it was YOUR kid I bet you wouldn’t be casually dismissing the phone strangely being with her friends.

What does the phone sitting on the chair answer?

nothing