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[quote]Donald Trump’s national security adviser heaped pain and grief on the parents of a British teenager killed in a car crash by trying to hold a meeting at the White House between them and a U.S. diplomat’s wife who was involved, the parents’ lawyer said.

Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn were invited to a surprise meeting with the U.S. president at his office on Wednesday where they were further shocked to learn that Anne Sacoolas, the American woman involved in the fatal crash, was in the building.

Mark Stephens, the lawyer for Charles and Dunn, said national security adviser Robert O’Brien had the idea of overseeing a coming together of the families before they would then hug in front of an assembled media.

“(O’Brien has) heaped grief and pain on the family by making them go through this but not allowing them to get the closure they need by talking to Mrs Sacoolas before they can go onto the grieving stage,” Stephens told BBC radio on Thursday.[/quote][/quote]

The parents are in pain.  They have also been begging to speak with the woman.  This was a poor idea.  They cannot have what they really want:  their son back.  Painful situation for all. [/quote]

They want to meet the woman in the UK, not be ambushed in the White House with a photo op.[/quote]

I still fail to see how they think any of this is going to make them feel better. It isn’t.[/quote]

I'm sure that justice would provide some amount of peace for them. 
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I don’t think that’s how grief works. Whatever “justice” they get is not going to feel like “enough” or bring back their child.[/quote]

It’s what they want. I trust them to know what they want more than you.

“'Something is not right. We will not rest until we get the truth. We will not let Harry passing be in vain.'”

Charlotte Charles said: 'She needs to do the right thing and come back and face what she has done. Face our family. Face the UK justice system.'

Why would you refuse them justice? 
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I'm not refusing them anything, I'm not involved. I'm simply stating that what they want is something I really, truly don't think they are going to get (Sacoolas coming back to the UK and "facing justice") and I think its counterproductive to their grief to spend all of this energy on a losing cause. They've somehow latched on to the diplomatic immunity thing like they think its their loophole. If they can prove she didn't have it, or only had it until she left, then somehow they can "get her." They don't seem to understand that now she is here, the US is not going to extradite her (especially since they told her to leave in the first place) and her immunity status is not even relevant any longer. IMO the US is not going to have this woman fall on her sword just to make the Dunns feel better. This an unfortunate case, of course, but for the sake of diplomats around the world immunity to be unquestioned and absolute. It would be different if she had intent, but it is clear she did not.

But if it makes them feel better to try, so be it. I personally don't like hitting my head against a brick wall and it just makes me feel worse. [/quote]

That is completely up to them to decide how they want to focus their energy and deal with their grief.

It's a shame that Trump was such a manipulative a-hole to them. THAT made things worse.

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