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This woman was wanted by the FBI for leaving the States with her children in an effort to escape an abusive husband (according to her).
Costa Rica has a strong, and in my opinion, laudable bias in favor of protecting children and she has been granted asylum in CR. I just love it when a small country stands up to the U.S.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jDmLRATSGDTnhnGcoVAwJBLWd3cwD9259SBO0Pleased to see that CR has its priorities in order. In the US, the woman would have ben subject to our family court system, which is biased toward who can afford the best lawyer. The cost of a typical middle class, homeowner, family divorce (for whatever reason)is typically equal to the annual family income. The kids are always the losers and the vast majority of state run social services are completely inept. In the US you will likely serve more jail time for having over an ounce of marijuana than for molesting or harming a child or beating your spouse. And we think we are a model country!
“In the US you will likely serve more jail time for having over an ounce of marijuana than for molesting or harming a child or beating your spouse.”
What?!?! Child molesters are put in prison and the keys are thrown away (rightly so!) in the USA. On what are you basing this claim? Heck… Parents can’t even spank their kids anymore without fear of being thrown in jail and losing their kids to CPS.
Divorces are definitely a nightmare there, but people who harm kids or beat their spouses are appropriately punished in the vast majority of cases.
If you want to talk about model countries, let me tell you that I had a very civil, temper-free disagreement with my girlfriend of 5 months here. After two days of thought, I decided that it was time to move on. Our philosophical differences were simply too great.
She did not want to break up, and on day three went to the police and filed domestic violence charges against me claiming I hit her, shoved her and drug her into the street in the middle of the night. Fortunately my home has a guard 24/7 who witnessed her calm departure on the night in question, and the police simply didn’t believe her story so they went through my house and sent her away without taking me to jail.
She changed her mind the next day and wanted to resume, so she dropped the charges. I have a strict policy against dating women who fabricate stories about me and take those stories to the police, so I would not consider her proposal to “try again.” If she had not dropped the charges in an attempt to resume the relationship, I would have had to hire an attorney, appear in front of a judge… Who knows where this could have gone?
In the USA the police are very serious about domestic violence claims. I know that in Dallas, TX they are required to take someone to jail on every D.V. call. I don’t think, however, that a report filed 3 full days after an alleged incident would get air time without significant evidence that there was a very good reason for the delayed report. In my case, the delay was because, 1. – It never happened, and 2. – She didn’t even think about it until I said I wanted to end the relationship.
The sad thing is (I know I’m slightly off-topic here. Sorry.) I have always treated my girlfriends with great respect, and would never even think about physically attacking one. Heck… I am careful with even the impact of my words. I am now very, very apprehensive about meeting anyone else here for fear that I could lose everything at the first hint of a problem. Not sure how (or if) to work around this.
Child molesters are in and out of prison multiple times, until they wind up killing some poor kid. Just look at the high-profile child murders in the last 5 years. Most of the perps had been incarcerated at least 3 – 5 different times for crimes against children. They only finally got the fate they deserved after they were convicted of murdering their quarry. In fact, we had so many such cases in Colorado that there was talk of imposing a three strikes and you’re out law — you commit sexual abuse against a child three times and bingo, you get the death penalty!
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