Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

[Anonymous]

Swimming at night in open water is dangerous even if you are a good swimmer. It's hard to see waves coming, it's hard to tell how far out you are, and if you are hit by a wave, you are even more disoriented and confused than if you are in broad daylight. For one thing, you might not even know which way is the surface of the water if you are underwater, and it's harder to spot the shore (so you might think you're swimming to shore, but instead you're swimming away from it).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain about this "lobby alcohol?"

Bar in the lobby? Sounds like they were hanging out and drinking for hours. It sucks they weren't cut off at any point, but the drinking age in DR is 18 so it was legal.

Ok. Thanks.
Someone several pages back said something about how young adults should be taught to never drink the alcohol in the lobby, or something like that. I've never been to DR or anywhere like that, so I wasn't sure what that was about.

PP quoting myself here. I found the post I was thinking of. They said "And people, please please read about destination location country before you go. For example, everyone traveling to DR resorts should know that you should never drink alcohol that's in the hotel lobby. according to CNN : "group of Americans – Konanki, five other women and two men – had been drinking in the hotel’s lobby around 3 a.m., a source with the Dominican National Police." Did they provide that video footage. If so, believe it, if not, who are you going to believe?"
this was a post on March 10 @22:51 (page 19)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Om Shanthi. I pray for her soul. My heart hurts for her family and friends. I’m Indian American from a similar background. Her parents looked so shocked. I can only imagine how proud they were of their premed daughter. May they find peace.

Why not just "how proud of their daughter"? Who gives a damn about major, oh right, the "Indian American from a similar background."

She's not American she's an Indian citizen living in the us

Technically. The "Indian American" (or take another country like Dominican American) part is commonly used by those who while they are not American by birth nor did they get naturalized (didn't get US citizenship) but have lived in US most of their lives so will hypnanate because they associate with being American. As in this young woman's case, it was said she came to the US in 2006 and they say she is 20. So she came to US when she was 1 or 2 years old. Not knowing if she ever went back to live in India after she moved to US so they write Indian American.

it is relevant here because India had to take the lead with DR authorities vs US who was just monitoring (until recently) because she is an Indian citizen and not a US citizen. It mattered in this case. I do not have any opinion on whether India has a good diplomatic team (I see no reason why they wouldn't) but people were asking why it too so many days for the US to get involved and it is because the priority/first in line was India.

[Anonymous]

I have been to all inclusive in DR before and I have never seen alcohol just left in the lobby for people to freely take (how would you monitor kids not taking it). I have known of people to ask for entire bottles of wine to take with them to the beach and seen that happen, but the concept of lobby alcohol sounds crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:What doesn’t make sense is that he was overcome by a big wave but got out and then passed out, why he wasn’t more worried about her when he came to and made sure she was in her room. This there was a big huge scary wave but I then passed out but didn’t think about her when I went back to my room at 955 am is suspect.

Because he was totally drunk and barely knew her? And was so drunk he passed out on the beach for a few hours, probably with only a hazy memory about what happened when he woke up?

The article I read said he was not a suspect and was allowed to leave DR.

Because his story is credible and I'm sure the group of partiers attested to how drunk both of them were. There's no reason to suspect malfeasance here, just being young and having poor judgment. Unfortunately the kids with strict upbringings are often ones to act out and go a little crazy in college. Poor girl, just a dumb innocent mistake made a million times by others with no grave consequences.

How do YOU know, yet?

[Anonymous]

I am an intuitive and believe she drown. A very tragic accident.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain about this "lobby alcohol?"

Bar in the lobby? Sounds like they were hanging out and drinking for hours. It sucks they weren't cut off at any point, but the drinking age in DR is 18 so it was legal.

Ok. Thanks.
Someone several pages back said something about how young adults should be taught to never drink the alcohol in the lobby, or something like that. I've never been to DR or anywhere like that, so I wasn't sure what that was about.

Does the reports says she was also drinking? Didn't read the details as with most mystery news stories. Could that group have finished drinking at the disco (??) and we're out of alcohol and decided to drink alcohol which can be found at the hotel lobby? Maybe no one has reported that and perhaps it doesn't even matter in this story. But was there any foul in that alcohol that was possibly consumed by the young woman (if she drank if there's video of it?)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain about this "lobby alcohol?"

Bar in the lobby? Sounds like they were hanging out and drinking for hours. It sucks they weren't cut off at any point, but the drinking age in DR is 18 so it was legal.

Ok. Thanks.
Someone several pages back said something about how young adults should be taught to never drink the alcohol in the lobby, or something like that. I've never been to DR or anywhere like that, so I wasn't sure what that was about.

Does the reports says she was also drinking? Didn't read the details as with most mystery news stories. Could that group have finished drinking at the disco (??) and we're out of alcohol and decided to drink alcohol which can be found at the hotel lobby? Maybe no one has reported that and perhaps it doesn't even matter in this story. But was there any foul in that alcohol that was possibly consumed by the young woman (if she drank if there's video of it?)?

eek, autocorrects

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Swimming at night in open water is dangerous even if you are a good swimmer. It's hard to see waves coming, it's hard to tell how far out you are, and if you are hit by a wave, you are even more disoriented and confused than if you are in broad daylight. For one thing, you might not even know which way is the surface of the water if you are underwater, and it's harder to spot the shore (so you might think you're swimming to shore, but instead you're swimming away from it).

Yes, very dangerous. Then imagine being highly intoxicated to boot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Om Shanthi. I pray for her soul. My heart hurts for her family and friends. I’m Indian American from a similar background. Her parents looked so shocked. I can only imagine how proud they were of their premed daughter. May they find peace.

Why not just "how proud of their daughter"? Who gives a damn about major, oh right, the "Indian American from a similar background."

Your response is really offensive and racist, PP.

You should really be very ashamed of your behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Om Shanthi. I pray for her soul. My heart hurts for her family and friends. I’m Indian American from a similar background. Her parents looked so shocked. I can only imagine how proud they were of their premed daughter. May they find peace.

Why not just "how proud of their daughter"? Who gives a damn about major, oh right, the "Indian American from a similar background."

She's not American she's an Indian citizen living in the us

Technically. The "Indian American" (or take another country like Dominican American) part is commonly used by those who while they are not American by birth nor did they get naturalized (didn't get US citizenship) but have lived in US most of their lives so will hypnanate because they associate with being American. As in this young woman's case, it was said she came to the US in 2006 and they say she is 20. So she came to US when she was 1 or 2 years old. Not knowing if she ever went back to live in India after she moved to US so they write Indian American.

it is relevant here because India had to take the lead with DR authorities vs US who was just monitoring (until recently) because she is an Indian citizen and not a US citizen. It mattered in this case. I do not have any opinion on whether India has a good diplomatic team (I see no reason why they wouldn't) but people were asking why it too so many days for the US to get involved and it is because the priority/first in line was India.

Was pointing out the Indian AMERICAN part that posters commented on. Yep if she was a citizen, her family wouldn't need to have gone to Indian authorities nor would India probably assist unless she was a dual citizen (American by naturalization and Indian by birth).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please explain about this "lobby alcohol?"

Bar in the lobby? Sounds like they were hanging out and drinking for hours. It sucks they weren't cut off at any point, but the drinking age in DR is 18 so it was legal.

Ok. Thanks.
Someone several pages back said something about how young adults should be taught to never drink the alcohol in the lobby, or something like that. I've never been to DR or anywhere like that, so I wasn't sure what that was about.

Does the reports says she was also drinking? Didn't read the details as with most mystery news stories. Could that group have finished drinking at the disco (??) and we're out of alcohol and decided to drink alcohol which can be found at the hotel lobby? Maybe no one has reported that and perhaps it doesn't even matter in this story. But was there any foul in that alcohol that was possibly consumed by the young woman (if she drank if there's video of it?)?

I didn’t read any details of the case but I’m going to post in here with random speculation. Nice addition to this post. Perhaps read a news story before you try to enlighten us with your wisdom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Om Shanthi. I pray for her soul. My heart hurts for her family and friends. I’m Indian American from a similar background. Her parents looked so shocked. I can only imagine how proud they were of their premed daughter. May they find peace.

Why not just "how proud of their daughter"? Who gives a damn about major, oh right, the "Indian American from a similar background."

Your response is really offensive and racist, PP.

You should really be very ashamed of your behavior.

Not sure if you are the poster who wrote aboit her major replying back, or above post is by another poster. It is not racist nor should anyone feel ashamed of their behavior including the poster who originally wrote about the premed major. The line in quotes is copied from that poster meaning that poster themself wrote that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Swimming at night in open water is dangerous even if you are a good swimmer. It's hard to see waves coming, it's hard to tell how far out you are, and if you are hit by a wave, you are even more disoriented and confused than if you are in broad daylight. For one thing, you might not even know which way is the surface of the water if you are underwater, and it's harder to spot the shore (so you might think you're swimming to shore, but instead you're swimming away from it).

Yes, very dangerous. Then imagine being highly intoxicated to boot.

Sounds like the boy barely made it out, and presumably he was stronger. Then so drunk and exhausted, he just passed out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Om Shanthi. I pray for her soul. My heart hurts for her family and friends. I’m Indian American from a similar background. Her parents looked so shocked. I can only imagine how proud they were of their premed daughter. May they find peace.

Why not just "how proud of their daughter"? Who gives a damn about major, oh right, the "Indian American from a similar background."

She's not American she's an Indian citizen living in the us

Technically. The "Indian American" (or take another country like Dominican American) part is commonly used by those who while they are not American by birth nor did they get naturalized (didn't get US citizenship) but have lived in US most of their lives so will hypnanate because they associate with being American. As in this young woman's case, it was said she came to the US in 2006 and they say she is 20. So she came to US when she was 1 or 2 years old. Not knowing if she ever went back to live in India after she moved to US so they write Indian American.

it is relevant here because India had to take the lead with DR authorities vs US who was just monitoring (until recently) because she is an Indian citizen and not a US citizen. It mattered in this case. I do not have any opinion on whether India has a good diplomatic team (I see no reason why they wouldn't) but people were asking why it too so many days for the US to get involved and it is because the priority/first in line was India.

Through the TJ grapevine, a representative from the Indian embassy met the parents at the airport when they landed after they immediately booked the next flight there.

What parent would not do the same if they were in this situation?


In contrast, at that time, the response from the Americans’ embassy was “let’s just wait and see if she turns up.”

Sorry but this was an unacceptable and unprofessional response here, when clearly someone’s life is in great danger.