Natalee Holloway Case Discussion #861 10/16/11 - 12/23/11
texasmom:
Maybe they're hoping Mary Hamer will feel sorry for them too?
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/everything-has-its-price-dutch-prisoners-peru
Everything has a price for Dutch prisoners in Peru
Published on : 17 October 2011 - 3:28pm | By Carlos Cornejo (Photo: Carlos Cornejo)
Nothing comes free in a Peruvian prison. Everything has its price, from toothpaste to female visitors. Three Dutchmen are being held in a jail in Lima's seaport El Callao. They told RNW correspondent Carlos Cornejo about their daily lives, "You don't know when you will be released."
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All drug trafficking suspects arrested at El Callao's international airport end up in this prison. Among them are Dutch citizens Behs Willie, Nico Schaper and Anthonius Arnie Delfstra. They are in the foreigners' pavillion on suspicion of trying to export cocaine from Peru. Willie, the best Spanish speaker, does not want to discuss his crime: "I've been in Colombia, I already know all about this and I'm not afraid."
Money
The oldest of the three, 45-year-old Willie, was sentenced to 6 years and 8 months and will be released in two months. He does not want to return to the Netherlands, preferring to stay in Latin America to be close to his daughter. The girl was born while he was in detention.
Delfstra, aged 32 and the youngest of the trio, spends his days laundering clothes. He said, "Everything here costs money, which I haven't got. So instead I clean other people's clothes." Schaper, also in his forties, has a little more leeway. "At least I can go to the gym, do some training or work for a couple of hours."
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The three Dutchmen are amazed at the way things are done in this prison, and the Peruvian legal system is a similar mystery. "What do you mean, legal system? There is no such thing here," says Willie. A question nagging Schaper is why there are such diverse penalties for one and the same crime. He still has to serve another six years, and says "The only thing you know for sure is when you enter this place, you never know when you will be leaving it." Arnie Delfstra adds, "If the social worker doesn't like you, you're in for it. If the psychologist finds you unsympathetic, you won't be released. It's totally arbitrary."
Joran van der Sloot
What they miss most is their families. Every day they imagine how it would be to be reunited with them after all those years. But Peruvian law does not allow that to become reality, because relesed prisoners have to stay in the country and report to the police. Their only hope is for their families to join them in Peru.
Until then, they have to pay for everything: toilet paper, cell hire, women, a TV inside the cell, toothpaste, justice. Even if a prisoner wants to receive a female visitor, they have to pay their fellow prisoners for some privacy. The rate is two dollars, a fortune in prison terms. Curtains are hung around the bunk beds to ward off inquisitive gazes.
Does the presence of the most notorious Dutch prisoner in Peru, Joran van der Sloot, affect them at all? Not really, according to Willie. "He is dangerous enough. He is kept isolated, and we have no contact with him."
klaasend:
Tacopino defending Lisa Irwin's parents ::MonkeyNoNo::
Tamikosmom:
Quote from: klaasend on October 17, 2011, 03:47:32 PM
Tacopino defending Lisa Irwin's parents ::MonkeyNoNo::
Criminal defense attorney Joe Tacopina will represent Irwin family
Posted: 9:46 AM
Last Updated: 1 minute ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Monday-afternoon news conference was held by the family of Lisa Irwin to announce the hiring of a New York-based criminal defense attorney in the investigation into the disappearance of the now-11-month-old girl.
Lisa, who will turn 1 year old on Nov. 11, has not been seen since Monday, Oct. 3. Her parents initially said her mother, Deborah Bradley, put her to bed around 10:30 p.m., but NBC News reported Monday they are now saying she put Lisa to bed closer to 6:30 p.m.
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http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_missouri/northland/lisa-irwin-family-to-hold-230-pm-news-conference
Tamikosmom:
Quote from: trimmonthelake on October 17, 2011, 04:21:05 PM
Family introduces Joe Tacopina as their new attorney
by Brian Foster - KMBC.com 3:14 PM
Read more: http://livewire.kmbc.com/Event/Live_Blog_Amber_Alert_Issued_For_Missing_10-Month-Old#ixzz1b4XX1GH5
grace-land:
http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/2643990/aanklacht-van-sloot-weer-teruggestuurd.html
Van der Sloot indictment sent back
Last update: October 17, 2011 9:08 p.m.
AMSTERDAM - The Peruvian court that the case against Joran van der Sloot deal, the charges against him for the second time sent back to justice.
The court was not satisfied with the way it was reformulated. The charge is sent to a higher prosecutor, attorney Edward Alvarez said Monday.
Counsel for the family of the murdered Stephany Flores expects the revised indictment within one week is back in court.
If the court accepts the complaint, the actual process against Van der Sloot planned. "That will be in November," said Alvarez.
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