Dominican Republic - Tammy Lawrence-Daley, 51, from Delaware, beaten at resort, Punta Cana, May 2019

[dotr]

Twitter in the above article says that the victim in this story has been an executive in the insurance industry.

Could she have been "gaming" the system? But what an extent she went to if that was the goal. Could she have been beaten up by someone she knew? Was she drunk and left the property? Did she have a rendezvous w/ Did she think that $2.2 million would take care of the pain and suffering she went through? Did she think or know that finding a resolution in the D.R criminal system was not going to work in her favor? I mean, what was she thinking? What is this hotel thinking?
They must feel confident it didn't go down the way she said it did.

Rbbm. Razz you made some good points.
‘Weak spots’: Dominican resort casts doubt on woman’s account of near-fatal attack
"The U.S. State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council says there are a “lack of law enforcement resources, poorly paid and trained police officers, and rampant corruption” in the Dominican Republic, and calls the criminal justice system “weak.”

De Castro criticized the media coverage of the story, saying that the majority of the country’s 6.5 million tourists a year visit the country without incident.

“People in the Dominican Republic are quite concerned about the way this country, which is known for hospitality and taking care of tourists, has been somewhat treated unfairly by media,” he said. “Pointing out some incidents of different types in different areas, some not even in hotels, but nonetheless some media has started describing them as tourists suffered this in the Dominican Republic, implying the fact of being a tourist in the country is unsafe, which is not the case.”

 

[swedeheart]

Woman claims she vomited BLOOD after taking ill at same resort where three US tourists died | Daily Mail Online

A woman who claims to have vomited blood after drinking a soda from the minibar of her room in the same Dominican Republic hotel where three US tourists have died says she believes someone may be targeting guests.

Awilda Montes, 43, visited the Bahia Principe La Romana last year with her ex-boyfriend.

The woman from Queens said that she took a 7 UP from her minibar fridge but that afterwards, she started feeling sick.

She vomited blood and had chemical burns inside her mouth which required medical treatment.

At the time, she thought she had mistakenly drank bleach that was left behind by housekeeping.

Now, in light of the deaths of a Pennsylvania woman and a couple from Maryland at the same resort, she fears there may be a more sinister explanation.

 

[swedeheart]

https://nypost.com/2019/06/07/widow...2jbLUn25Uf0N5240cMe5i0fd-MRUmp_NnOAHLzYFR-ryY

A Maryland woman said that three American tourists dying at a Dominican Republic resort has her questioning the circumstances of her husband’s death in that country.

Dawn McCoy said she does not believe it’s a coincidence that her husband died in 2018 of pulmonary edema and a heart attack — much like the three Grand Bahía Príncipe resort guests who died within a week of each other, news station WTOP reported.

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“I started seeing all these other people that were dying of the same exact causes, which made me start to second guess,” McCoy told the news station.

For her wedding anniversary, she visited the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana last July along with her husband, David Harrison, and son.

She said her husband started feeling sick one night before he went to bed. He later woke up in the middle of the night covered in sweat.

“He couldn’t sit up, and he was making noises that you couldn’t make out,” McCoy said.

She said she tried to talk to him “but all he could do was mumble.”

“He was struggling quite a bit to get out of bed and to talk,” she said.

McCoy called the hotel doctor to the room but her husband didn’t survive.

 

[michmi]

I’ve seen a couple of pictures that make me think the engaged couple died of some sort of poisoning.

 

[swedeheart]

Woman Attacked in Dominican Republic Says All-Inclusive Resort Is Trying to ‘Blame the Victim’

Woman Attacked in Dominican Republic Says All-Inclusive Resort Is Trying to ‘Blame the Victim’



A statement issued Friday on behalf of Lawrence-Daley asserts that she and her attorneys “feel confident that viewers and the public can see that the hotel’s attempt to blame the victim in this case is their last plea to avoid taking responsibility for their failures.”


(oh well...that's the only snippet i could paste for some reason. there is more at link. the hotel is claiming she only reported it now (4 months later) so that she could file 2 million in compensation against the hotel. the dress she was wearing the night she was attacked was "lost" and the crime scene was not roped off.)

i also just read in another article about one of these incidences that the hotel offered the woman a free dinner and a couples massage IF she signed an NDA!! will try to find this news article again.

 

[dotr]

Woman Attacked in Dominican Republic Says All-Inclusive Resort Is Trying to ‘Blame the Victim’

Woman Attacked in Dominican Republic Says All-Inclusive Resort Is Trying to ‘Blame the Victim’



A statement issued Friday on behalf of Lawrence-Daley asserts that she and her attorneys “feel confident that viewers and the public can see that the hotel’s attempt to blame the victim in this case is their last plea to avoid taking responsibility for their failures.”


(oh well...that's the only snippet i could paste for some reason. there is more at link. the hotel is claiming she only reported it now (4 months later) so that she could file 2 million in compensation against the hotel. the dress she was wearing the night she was attacked was "lost" and the crime scene was not roped off.)

i also just read in another article about one of these incidences that the hotel offered the woman a free dinner and a couples massage IF she signed an NDA!! will try to find this news article again.

Rbbm.
The woman claims that she surrendered BLOOD after she fell ill at the same resort where three American tourists died
"She said it started the day after she took a sip of the drink.

& # 39; I was nauseous the next day. I was in pain and the only thing I could have was ice cream, & she said.

A medical report from the clinic she visited said she had a & # 39; pain in the dorsal and lateral region of the tongue, accompanied by vomiting & # 39 ;.

She claims that the hotel offered her a free dinner and a free purple massage in exchange for signing an NDA, but she refused."

 

[pcrum12]

I think that there is more of a problem South of the United States border, and Caribbean countries rather than Europe, places with more poverty.

I used to go to Cancun every year for a vacation, the last time I went, literally, the resort we were staying at, had a perimeter fence, that I had not seen before, and a gate with armed guards. It was rather chilling to me, that security had increased so much in a place that used to be pretty safe for tourists. Rather than feeling safer with the increased security, I wondered why it was so much different than it had been before.

I go to Cancun area at least twice a year and have stayed at dozens of resorts. I’ve never seen what you describe.

 

[Wagtales10]

I go to Cancun area at least twice a year and have stayed at dozens of resorts. I’ve never seen what you describe.

It's scare tatics not based in reality to demonize whole countries through stereotypes.

 

[kaen]

I would like to remind us that we are a victim friendly site.

Here is a link to a FOX story. There are photos of her here: Dominican resort claims US tourist went public with assault allegation after it refused her demand for $2.2 million



Her story may not make sense to some but I doubt she beat herself to make a buck.

 

[kaen]

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"Even after a hospital stay in the Dominican Republic, Lawrence-Daley said she's still not positive if she was sexually assaulted.

"We had to force them to do a rape kit and that didn't happen until 48 hours later. And even at that point it was an external swab, that was it," she said.

Just as she was starting her long path toward a physical recovery, she said she was told that Dominican authorities would not investigate her assault unless she testified in a local court. She said she managed to testify at a court before flying back home.

But after a three-month investigation and a failed attempt to negotiate an out-of-court settlement, the resort's insurance company eventually sent a letter saying Majestic Elegance bore no responsibility since she couldn't identify her assailant as an employee. She now has until late July to find a Dominican lawyer to take up the case." Some info "doesn't match" statements about attack on U.S. woman at Dominican resort, police say

 

[Inthedetails]

"A Pennsylvania man claims a pair of would-be robbers savagely attacked him at the same Dominican Republic resort where a Delaware mom claimed she was savagely beaten."

https://nypost.com/2019/06/21/assau...can-resort-where-woman-says-she-was-attacked/

 

[Feech_LaManna]

Is there a timestamp on that picture or video of her in the hospital bed with her face badly beaten ?

"She said she managed to testify at a court before flying back home."

Given her appearance and condition, one would think this occurred weeks after the alleged incident. Any records of her hospital stay and length of stay ? What date did she fly back to the US? Any record of this court appearance and date it occurred ?

 

[Elliot_Alderson]

I live in the same town as the victim/her spouse, and the name sounds somewhat familiar. I'm going to ask around and see what pops up.

 

[Razz]

Dominican Republic resort temporarily closes after woman claims she was beaten there

 

[PrairieWind]

Dominican Republic resort temporarily closes after woman claims she was beaten there

I saw this article today as well. That is going to be pretty costly. But, in my opinion, that is the price they pay for their actions and especially their in-actions in regards to all the claims. Those resorts are going to have to earn back public trust.

 

[Bjax]

I don’t know, at first I believed her story

But it seems that some things just don’t add up,

She claims she saw a Hotel uniform, but over the course of hours long assault, could not even give any type of description of his face, build or any other identifying info. Except some guy in a uniform. She apparently fought him, but could not see him

Her husband found her in a closed off area, not known or open to the public and in a restricted area of the hotel, an underground waste water area.

This was their second night at the hotel, how would he know about this underground area, this apparently is a rather large resort

She still had her purse and cell phone also, how did she retain this through the attack, you would think the attacker would have robbed her of any valuables like her purse

She was moved apparently to two areas and still kept her purse while being dragged down stairs into the crawlspace from the maintenance room

It seems I have some questions

I find it odd that she only went public not at the time of the attack(she claims she is now concerned that this could happen to someone else)but only after the Hotel would not meet her demands for millions of dollars

I unfortunately do not feel that she will succeed in her suit against the hotel as anyone could have dressed in a hotel uniform. Could have even been a former employee or even a stolen uniform. You only have her report of the hotel uniform

If she cannot say if a current employees a suspect, the hotel bears no responsibility for the assault

I feel she was a victim of an assault, she does not know whom assaulted her, so she claims that it was a hotel employee to obtain compensation from the hotel insurance.

She can get no justice, compensation and accountability if she claimed it was not a hotel employee and some random person

Also how did the attacker not know she could not identify him, he left a witness alive who could identify him, a lengthly beating over a long period of time and he left her alive.

If he was a hotel employee he could have been identified as the person responsible. He knew this.....

Why take the chance of assaulting her in uniform, when he could be identified.

He did not wear a mask or disguise during this entire time

The only way she can be compensated is by claiming it was a hotel employee and by putting that forth in her lawsuit against the hotel.

She works in the insurance industry, the hotel has insurance, she knows they have deep pockets and by claiming it was an employee she may have expected them to settle with her.

Some things just seem off about this case to me