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How to Talk to a Deaf Person

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Charges Dropped Against Child Rapist...And For What???

By Amylin - Posted on July 26th, 2007

Tagged: child rape • courts • foreign language • immigrants • injustice • interpreters • pedophiles • Rape • Shared responsibility • Effective government • Better future

A child rapist in Maryland had all charges against him dropped because the court could not find an interpreter to speak his native language of Vai, which is a West African language spoken by about 100,000 people world wide. The link to one of the news stories is below.

http://knoxnews.com/news/2007/jul/23/sex-abuse-case-dropped-when-court-c...

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