RichardLewis
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LE said,in a presser, that the people responsible are still living.
I don't specifically recall that LE said ALL of the people responsible are still alive. Perhaps those directly responsible for the girls abduction are still alive. Although, when all is finally revealed I believe there will be others (both living and deceased) who had some level of complicity. Think about the recent Holly Bobo case in TN. There were several criminals involved. Some person(s) abducted her, others joined in sexually assaulting her, and after she had been kept alive for a while, ultimately some person(s) killed her. Some were kidnappers and / or murderers, others were rapists, and other people became aware of the crimes and did nothing. I strongly suspect there will be several sad parallels in both these heartbreaking cases.
Complicity: "An individual is complicit in a crime if he is aware of its occurrence and has the ability to report the crime, but fails to do so. As such, the individual effectively allows criminals to carry out a crime despite potentially being able to stop it from happening, either directly or by contacting the authorities. The offender is a de facto accessory to the crime, rather than an innocent bystander."
Law relating to complicity varies. Usually complicity is not a crime although this sometimes conflicts with popular perception. At a certain point a person that is complicit in a crime may become a conspirator depending on the degree of involvement by the individual and whether a crime was completed or not.
Complicity is a doctrine that operates to hold persons criminally responsible for the acts of others. Complicity encompasses accessorial and conspiratorial liability. Accessorial liability is frequently referred to as accomplice liability.
An accomplice is a person who helps another person commit a crime, Accomplice liability involves primary actors who actually participate in the commission of the crime and secondary actors who aid and encourage the primary actors. The aid can be either physical or psychological. The secondary actors are called accomplices.