Posted on 06/08/2010 6:18:34 AM PDT by Young Werther
Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room, a police spokesman said.
Peru's chief police spokesman, Col. Abel Gamarra, told The Associated Press that Van der Sloot admitted under police questioning Monday that he killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30.
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I somehow don’t think this guy will survive 6 years in a Peruvian prison. In Latin America it’s not the length of the sentence. It’s where you spend it that counts. I suspect that like in Argentina, he will be “suicided”.
I hope he discloses where the family can find Natalie’s body. I realize this won’t bring her back but her family may be able to give her a proper burial and a place to visit/bring flowers. I don’t know how a family can go on not knowing where their child is located. Just me.
Well then, six months of anger management classes it is, for this young man.....................
Really? Only 6 years for murder!
"You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you. I'm going to kill you. Anything you say will be used against you..."
Jeez. Your prejudice — or perhaps unfamiliarity — is showing. The Peruvian criminal justice system is better than most in Latin America. If you read all the stories on this, he was questioned in the presence of a lawyer, a judge and about 15 other people. He was not tortured, no one laid a hand on him. He knows they have him dead to rights, he knows he’s in deep doo-doo, and he is cooperating in the hopes that they will go easier on him if he does. Which I doubt. The methods you describe are, in Latin America, typically used on political prisoners, not run-of-the-mill murdering psychopaths. And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. And for a hair-raising preview of the prison he will end up in, see http://2164th.blogspot.com/2010/06/joran-va-ser-sloot-when-convicted-will.html
Fox doesn’t know what it is talking about. I doubt anyone there can understand Spanish. I have been reading the Peruvian newspapers online, and the general consensus is 35 years to life. There are Peruvian legislators who are demanding that the law be changed so that he is never eligible for parole. But I think the girl’s father will arrange for him to have an unfortunate accident after the all fuss dies down, and I wouldn’t blame him.
In that case I am totally disappointed. There are some cases where progress may not really be progress at all. However, I somehow think that Van Snot may not have as easy a time of it.
“Dang! They didn’t torture him! Slackers.” Did you look at the prison video? His life sucks now, and it is only going to get worse for him, suck-wise.
Somehow I think the Euro weenies will seek different treatment for him. they’re not gonna mix him in the general prison population. Pity they are treating him by western standards. I haven’t been back in Argentina in over 40 years. I suspect they got soft there too. I remember visiting a jail when I was a kid with my father. His friend was a police commissar and got a tour. I remember it like it was yesterday. The prison in the video looks like a modern hotel in comparison. The place I remember seemed more like hell without the heat.
Somewhere, I read that the average time served for armed robbery in Washington, DC was 5 & 1/2 years. [any Freepers out there with a reference?]
The average time served for MURDER was only 7 & 1/2 years.
You figure what is going through a punks head during a convenience store robbery.
“Hmmmm, no witness alive to testify or MAYBE getting an extra 2 year sentence?”
“If I am caught!”
“And convicted.”
She further said, that he's a clever young psycho, and may have said these things knowing the cops had him dead to rights, and that they were the magic words to work his sentence downwards from the maximum.
“She used his personal computer. That is grounds for killing her, right?”
They could not possibly believe anything this liar says! That he used this as an excuse shows that he is a pathological liar and says anything that comes into his mind without thinking of the consequences. I am sure the Peruvian authorities are reviewing his many stories about Natalee and his video in the car spouting how he tried to save her but he just couldn’t etc.! Taking him to the scene of the crime is going to really trip him up, as he doesn’t know what evidence they have. Actually, taking him to the room is almost like the trial has started.
As they say in Iraq and Afghanistan, “Embrace the Suck.”
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