A lawyer who raped a seven-year-old girl was not found an interpreter and the complaint was dismissed

A man who raped a seven - year - old girl at Rockville, Maryland, has been accused several times, but the court said that the court dismissed the complaint. The reason seems to be that the man spoke only the words of West Africa and it took too long to find the interpreter.

Details are as follows.
Interpreter Trouble Ends Sex - Abuse Case - washingtonpost.com

Immigrant from Liberia, Mahamu Kanneh was arrested in August 2004 for having assaulted the girl more than once. He was a Vai speaker who used only about 100,000 people in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The prosecution pointed out that Kenneh was talking to high school and junior college and that he was talking with criminal and English but because the court-appointed psychiatrist recommended that interpreter be used, the court decided to use interpreter did.

However, the first interpreter was shaken up knowing the facts of the incident, jumped out of the courtroom, refusing that the next interpreter dislikes incomplete work, found an interpreter for the third person, but goes there due to the circumstances of the family It was said that it was. Recently finding a suitable interpreter finally, the judge ruled to dismiss the complaint, saying that the trial took quite a while and infringed the right to receive a quick trial of the Liberian immigrants.

According to the court clerk who searched for an interpreter, he said he had contacted the Liberian embassy and most state courts to find a speaker of Vai language, so that it would be better to find an interpreter with fewer speakers I realize how difficult it is.

Even though it is unfair to proceed with trials without permission, it seems that the victim is not convinced by the dismissal ....