ASA parent arrested

[Anonymous]

https://www.acyd.org.au/acyd/2014-acyd-delegate-list-released

[Anonymous]

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Don’t forget this seemingly more recent photo, shared by a PP

[Anonymous]

Thank you. Is there a link for the wife?

[Anonymous]

Wife:

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/team/m/miyoko-asai

[Anonymous]

Both he and his wife worked for the world bank. There is something very fishy about the timing of the wife leaving the US and how little public data these two have out there. I’d bet they have had data scrubbed.

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Anonymous wrote:If you scroll down, is this him? I don’t remember what he looked like even though we’ve been in the same spaces.

https://www.acyd.org.au/acyd/2014-acyd-delegate-list-released

Good lord:
“Thomas Mahony is a North Asia analyst for the Australian Government.

With accomplices of the Kelly Gang -- Australia's most notorious outlaws -- among his ancestors, Thomas has dedicated his life to public service in order to rehabilitate his family's honour.”

Sounds like he’s a Chinese asset.

The wife is Japanese and works at the World Bank too. Miyoko Asai. They met in Australia.

Please don't attack the wife just because she's married to an alleged monster.

She obviously didn’t want to get investigated. If she was a decent, innocent person, she would have offered to speak with the detectives.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you scroll down, is this him? I don’t remember what he looked like even though we’ve been in the same spaces.

https://www.acyd.org.au/acyd/2014-acyd-delegate-list-released

Good lord:
“Thomas Mahony is a North Asia analyst for the Australian Government.

With accomplices of the Kelly Gang -- Australia's most notorious outlaws -- among his ancestors, Thomas has dedicated his life to public service in order to rehabilitate his family's honour.”

Sounds like he’s a Chinese asset.

The wife is Japanese and works at the World Bank too. Miyoko Asai. They met in Australia.

Please don't attack the wife just because she's married to an alleged monster.

She obviously didn’t want to get investigated. If she was a decent, innocent person, she would have offered to speak with the detectives.

It's not uncommon for foreign nationals (or dual citizens) who work for international organizations to want to avoid getting tangled up in the U.S. justice system. One of the first things a prosecutor will do is request or seek a court order that the person not leave the state/country. If the prosecutor believes the person is a flight risk (either as a material witness or co-conspirator), s/he may request the court order seizure of the person's U.S. passport.

[Anonymous]

She escaped before or after his arrest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She escaped before or after his arrest?

She's allowed to travel, since she's not the accused. I don't know if she's already left for good, but since she's originally from Japan, reports that she'd left already may just mean she was traveling there to see family.

I concur with a PP that if your spouse is implicated in a serious crime in a foreign country, you do NOT want an entanglement and you LEAVE. Everyone should do the same. I do not blame the wife in the least.

[Anonymous]

She knew what her husband was doing. And said nothing. She’ll never come back here. Never.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both he and his wife worked for the world bank. There is something very fishy about the timing of the wife leaving the US and how little public data these two have out there. I’d bet they have had data scrubbed.

Not really. The wife has probably been living a nightmare since the first allegation came out, and perhaps she'd made up her mind to leave anyway. And if they're anonymous run-of-the-mill workers, why would they pop up on the first pages of Google? No one in my family does.

[Anonymous]

The comments about the wife are a bit over the top. If you unwittingly married a predator, would you believe the first allegation? I bet none of you would. And if you came to gradually suspect your husband... what would you do in a foreign country? I think you would first think of your children, and what would happen to them if they were left parentless, without relatives close by, due to your possible detention. Your husband would be dead to you, but you'd have to slog through a divorce, etc, and have to live the rest of your life knowing that at any moment, someone who searches the internet can connect you back to this monster.

I think we all would try to leave with our kids, honestly. She probably feels terrible for the victims, but her kids are her priority.

[Anonymous]

She is just as guilty as him by not protecting the innocent children this monster harmed.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why a previous post of mine was deleted, but I'll repeat it here.

The mother of two of the victims reported to the Post that she was warned by a neighbor that there had been a previous claim of sexual abuse against this man.

And yet she chose to leave her daughter and son alone with him while she took a nap and her husband went shopping.

Read:

"The mother also told detectives that in June, a month before her children came forward, a neighbor had warned her that a girl around her daughter’s age had reported Mahony for sexual abuse in 2023. The mother said she discussed the allegations with her husband. Her husband told detectives that they had decided to give Mahony the “benefit of the doubt.” "


This is not normal behavior.

I can't get past this. WTF??!!

I wish I hadn’t read the WaPo article with the mother saying she walked in on her child with the man, and was so shocked she just shut the door and went back to the living room. holy $hit. She just left her kid in there. I’m speechless.

I'm not one of those "it could never happen to me" parents or someone who envisions going full mixed martial arts specialist on every mugger, but I truly cannot envision seeing my child being abused and not going totally feral. Calmly shutting the door and going back into the living room for a sip of my G+T would not be on the menu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why a previous post of mine was deleted, but I'll repeat it here.

The mother of two of the victims reported to the Post that she was warned by a neighbor that there had been a previous claim of sexual abuse against this man.

And yet she chose to leave her daughter and son alone with him while she took a nap and her husband went shopping.

Read:

"The mother also told detectives that in June, a month before her children came forward, a neighbor had warned her that a girl around her daughter’s age had reported Mahony for sexual abuse in 2023. The mother said she discussed the allegations with her husband. Her husband told detectives that they had decided to give Mahony the “benefit of the doubt.” "


This is not normal behavior.

I can't get past this. WTF??!!

I wish I hadn’t read the WaPo article with the mother saying she walked in on her child with the man, and was so shocked she just shut the door and went back to the living room. holy $hit. She just left her kid in there. I’m speechless.

I'm not one of those "it could never happen to me" parents or someone who envisions going full mixed martial arts specialist on every mugger, but I truly cannot envision seeing my child being abused and not going totally feral. Calmly shutting the door and going back into the living room for a sip of my G+T would not be on the menu.

I thought something was happening to my DD when she was 3 with some older boys and I literally impulsively just went ballistic. It’s like a reflex, you just act. I have no regrets about making a scene, grabbing my DD and yelling like crazy. None. I cannot understand any parent that just walks away. WTAF