Labrador mayor seeks deeper probe of rape case - Phillipines

[AmyStrange]

Monday, October 18, 2004
Labrador mayor seeks deeper probe of rape case
By Fred P. Macaraeg

FROM: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pan/2004/10/18/news/labrador.mayor.seeks.deeper.probe.of.rape.case.html
LABRADOR -- Mayor Ernesto Acain said Sunday since the discovery of the body of an eight-year-old girl who was raped and slain, he ordered a deeper police investigation on the matter.

"When they reported to me about the crime, I personally went to the crime scene and called up for assistance from the National Bureau of Investigation and the provincial police office in Lingayen," he said.

There was no evidence gathered at the scene so the mayor had the body autopsied at the town proper.

Acain directed the former chief of police to conduct an investigation until a child identified a highlander as the suspect in the rape-slay.

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What is the point of my post, you may ask, since it so clearly seems not to be political, and thus not really DU material in any way, shape, or form?

What is the point of ANY post, but to inform and/ or create discussion. Missing persons and the wrongly accuused deserve as much democratic consideration and justice as any other person.

Personally, I think they deserve it more so, because their voices (unless they are a young white college kid or white clean-cut mostly female rich person - for example, Smart, Sjodin, Levy, Peterson, Hacking etc.) are rarely heard from or written about or acknowledged in any way shape or form.

Do you know how many persons went missing in California at about the same time as Laci Peterson? Two that I know of specifically. One was hispanic (and also pregnant and also found murdered not too long AFTER Laci) and another was a prostitute, but guess which was talked about incessantly by the media?

And finally, missing persons and serial killers and miscarriages of justice are an example of why the budgets of LE (both here in the U.S and abroad) should be raised (and NOT just for homeland security) which is A VERY POLITICAL subject - in my opinion,

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[NEOBuckeye]

1. I still don't get the media's Laci Peterson obsession.

Murder scandals happen every hour of every day. That's by no means a good thing, but what makes this instance so much more deserving of attention than any other?

[AmyStrange]

2. It's a conundrum alright...

you are right of course and then add in their whole obsession with Mary Cheney as opposed to the fact that Bush said he didn't think OBL was that important in 2002 and then lied about it that he didn't say it during the debates has fallen off the radar screen.

I think it has more to do with money then keeping us informed,

d