ROCKVILLE, Md. — Charges against a man accused of repeatedly raping and molesting a 7-year-old girl were dismissed last week because the court could not find an interpreter fluent in the suspect's native West African language.
OK, he is from West Africa, but:
Mahamu Kanneh, a Liberian native who received asylum in this country and attended high school and community college here, according to The Washington Post, was denied a speedy trial after three years awaiting a court-appointed interpreter who could speak the tribal language of Vai.
He made it through high school and attended college here. Wonder how they found an interpreter? The answer is they did not have to:
A court-ordered psychiatrist determined that Kanneh, despite his functional facility with English — he originally spoke with detectives in English, The Post reports, needed to have Vai spoken in order to understand the proceedings
against him.
He spoke well enough to make it through school and discuss the case with the detectives.
Oh yes:
FOX News spoke with a man who claimed to be Kanneh in a five-minute phone conversation on Sunday in English. He said the allegations against him were false and the dismissal of the charges was "a good thing." Asked if the accusations were true, he responded, "I said what I had to say" and hung up.
How hard is it to find an interpreter you ask:
The Washington Post wrote in its article that in just one night reporters were independently able to identify three Vai translators available to assist in the case...
This is inexcusable.
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This guy needs to taken out behind the barn, horse whipped until he falls out and then have it done again when he comes to, and every time he come to, until he doesn't...
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