Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

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Anonymous wrote:I was on this beach just two resorts down a couple of years ago, and the waves are relentless and easily knock you down. I can't imagine being in that water at 4 in the morning after consuming a lot of alcohol. It's so dark. I was leery of the waves during the daylight while sober.

red flag warnings were posted at the beach (witness and video says so up thread)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was on this beach just two resorts down a couple of years ago, and the waves are relentless and easily knock you down. I can't imagine being in that water at 4 in the morning after consuming a lot of alcohol. It's so dark. I was leery of the waves during the daylight while sober.

+1 !!

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't reports say the POI guy was or is a lifeguard?

sure, like a lot of our 15 year olds - certified to monitor the neighborhood pool

Lifeguard to know NOT to go in the water. Especially at night.

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Anonymous wrote:I think everyone is shocked because she is Indian. Not within their culture to party and drink. I hate that people are blaming the friends who were also drunk. It’s like the blind leading the blind. I hope rescue team gets called off soon. Wasting resources. She will be presumed dead soon.

Who is shocked? Lol you dont know what is within their culture.

Aside from parents and any parent would be, who is?

Go away crazy rhetorical question poster. There’s something wrong with you. You lack any kind of decisiveness or situational awareness. You seem like you’d walk into walls and be habitually late all the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yall stupid. Public school swim lessons have nothing to do with this. Thank god you’re not investigators!

VA failed to teach kids how to swim drunk. I blame the moral majority for not allowing the government to do its job!

This. The state of VA is absolutely to blame for not teaching her how to swim properly. In the dark. Drunk.

That guy they have as POI said they were? If not, how do you know she was swimming in the dark? Perhaps it was mentioned up thread somewhere?

You’re not the sharpest crayon in the box.

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Anonymous wrote:This story is so sad. I feel like girls especially have it drilled in their head to look out for their friends and yet this sort of thing happens. I wonder if she had known the boy for a few days so had an illusion of safety and so did her friends.

I really don't like blaming the friends. She clearly wanted to stay behind with him. It was after 5am and the friends wanted to go to bed at last. If she didn't want to go with them, please tell me specifically what they should have done.

My understanding is they took her phone so find my phone would show her in the hotel room. They were doing what she wanted.

Is this understanding from anything official or simply the game of telephone (pun intended) being played in this thread?

Nothing official. More likely she didn't want her phone to get wet or sandy, or it was dying.

Right. We just know she asked her friends to take it, several possible reasons why.

Im new to the phone theories. I assumed it was on the beach chair. So the girls have it? That’s unfortunate if true.

If you have an older teenage child, you might be aware that they DO NOT like being tracked by their parents. Some have no choice, the parents are controlling. If the parents are not, some kids usually elect to turn off location sharing because, surprise, they like privacy. In this case, if there is controlling parent and she wanted to fool them into thinking she was with her friends whose parents might be in contact with her parents, she gives friends the phone to throw them off the trail of her hormonal intentions.

Haven't you seen posts from mid-life adults who's 80 year old mother will call because middle aged child was at a doctor's office 3000 miles away and pesters about middle aged child's reasons for being at doctor's office?

This. She could turn off location, but then the tiger mom would start calling her friends in panic mode. She had no other option than send the phone with friends to send them off track. How sad. The phone perhaps would have saved her, we will never know. This is something young women should always do, have a friend check back on her every hour to see if she's good and if they don't hear back then time to get alert.

Overly controlling parents think their 20 year old daughter should not have some "fun" with a guy she liked. It's quite normal and she should be allowed to have safe fun. The phone is something she should not leave ever. I know young women who will go crazy if their phone reaches a certain level of charge and they will go out of the way to get it charged. I also know overly controlling parents who will enforce a curfew on their daughter at home when she is actually hooking up with random guys in college. Such parents think their daughter is a "good girl" or should be one. There is nothing that will make her a bad girl if she had some safe fun, they should be allowed to do that without overbearing parents tracking them every where.

I can’t believe that you think you have any insight into this poor, suffering family.

How about she left her phone because she could not take it swimming and thought it would get stolen if she left it in the chaise with her clothes?

Any reports of her saying she asked them to take it? Or what if friends took it knowingly for whatever reasons? Maybe they didn't intend to hurt her by taking phone but they took it inside anyways. Or charge it for her if it needed charging. Or like people have mentioned to have her phone's location to show as being inside hotel if parents were checking location.

NP. It doesn’t matter why she gave her phone to her friends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't reports say the POI guy was or is a lifeguard?

sure, like a lot of our 15 year olds - certified to monitor the neighborhood pool

Lifeguard to know NOT to go in the water. Especially at night.

he was drunk

[Anonymous]

These posts about her race, her parents, etc are gross.

She could have been anyone's daughter. Let's be real. Passing judgement or thinking this happened because being ethnically Indian passed on some cultural reason for it is some far reaching bullish*t.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't reports say the POI guy was or is a lifeguard?

sure, like a lot of our 15 year olds - certified to monitor the neighborhood pool

Lifeguard to know NOT to go in the water. Especially at night.

he was drunk

The point is, he would never be able to save her no matter how many years of lifeguard training he had. Especially drunk! People are wild to think that she could have been saved.

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Anonymous wrote:I think everyone is shocked because she is Indian. Not within their culture to party and drink. I hate that people are blaming the friends who were also drunk. It’s like the blind leading the blind. I hope rescue team gets called off soon. Wasting resources. She will be presumed dead soon.

Who is shocked? Lol you dont know what is within their culture.

Aside from parents and any parent would be, who is?

Go away crazy rhetorical question poster. There’s something wrong with you. You lack any kind of decisiveness or situational awareness. You seem like you’d walk into walls and be habitually late all the time.

Still frustrated huh? And what is the connection to this topic that's being discussed?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yall stupid. Public school swim lessons have nothing to do with this. Thank god you’re not investigators!

VA failed to teach kids how to swim drunk. I blame the moral majority for not allowing the government to do its job!

This. The state of VA is absolutely to blame for not teaching her how to swim properly. In the dark. Drunk.

That guy they have as POI said they were? If not, how do you know she was swimming in the dark? Perhaps it was mentioned up thread somewhere?

You’re not the sharpest crayon in the box.

Are you? And how does anyone being whatever random adjective you like to use in each thread of yours relate to THIS news story/case?

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Anonymous wrote:Yall stupid. Public school swim lessons have nothing to do with this. Thank god you’re not investigators!

VA failed to teach kids how to swim drunk. I blame the moral majority for not allowing the government to do its job!

This. The state of VA is absolutely to blame for not teaching her how to swim properly. In the dark. Drunk.

That guy they have as POI said they were? If not, how do you know she was swimming in the dark? Perhaps it was mentioned up thread somewhere?

You’re not the sharpest crayon in the box.

Are you? And how does anyone being whatever random adjective you like to use in each thread of yours relate to THIS news story/case?

Are YOU?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't reports say the POI guy was or is a lifeguard?

sure, like a lot of our 15 year olds - certified to monitor the neighborhood pool

Lifeguard to know NOT to go in the water. Especially at night.

he was drunk

The point is, he would never be able to save her no matter how many years of lifeguard training he had. Especially drunk! People are wild to think that she could have been saved.

He is a POI because he may have killed her, Rose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These posts about her race, her parents, etc are gross.

She could have been anyone's daughter. Let's be real. Passing judgement or thinking this happened because being ethnically Indian passed on some cultural reason for it is some far reaching bullish*t.

You're focused on her being Indian. Maybe there is one or very few posters who have been. Someone said the friends of hers who she traveled with are also Indian. But why does it matter?

[Anonymous]

People forget so quickly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chambers_(criminal)

If only he’d had access to the tides and surf, amirite?