This post deserves :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: My thoughts and feelings as well FlowerChild!
This whole thing has been mishandled by everyone - but PRIMARILY the MILITARY - who did not protect Maria, did not investigate the and did not STOP from running. The military had him RIGHT THERE and couldn't keep from assaulting Maria, they couldn't keep from harassing a pregnant Maria for months, they couldn't charge with ANYTHING or even investigate for MONTHS after Maria pressed rape charges against and even when PRESSED by local LE could not get in to be questioned in Maria's disappearance. They LET him run without a single charge being brought against him. What in this fiasco makes anyone have confidence that they can apprehend him? Heck, the couldn't do anything when HE WAS RIGHT THERE FOR MONTHS!!!
And what is local LE to do? Even the FBI seems at a loss - all because the "officers" on base sat around for MONTHS doing NOTHING while was allowed to harass and continue to make Maria's life a living hell while pregnant with a child of HIS rape - and when they finally DID do something, they failed to PROTECT Maria from him and at the same time, emboldened to take the problem into his own hands and END HER LIFE (and his baby's life) without even so much as a VISIT to his house when she went missing. It's shameful and sad that this was allowed to happen under the NOSES of our military. There is something very, very wrong - the ball wasn't just dropped, it was buried 10 feet under the field by the WHOLE TEAM!
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