A man in Maryland accused of sexual abuse (on a 7 year old girl) has been released and his case dropped by the judge. Apparently Mahamu Kanneh is from Liberia and speaks a tribal dialect which made it difficult to find an interpreter to work the three year old case. This person attended high school and community college in the United States and spoke English to the investigators of the case, but all of a sudden has been released because they couldn't find an interpreter. Three interpreters were found, one who quit due to the horrific nature of the case, one who was removed for incompetence and one who never showed up.
I am a big fan of individual rights and understand the need to protect those rights among them, the right to a speedy trial. What about the right of the victim to justice? More importantly, in 3 years they couldn't find a single person to interpret for the trial? In that time, the could have taken a rowboat, rowed to Liberia, learned the language and rowed back. This is a ridiculous miscarriage of justice and worse yet the judicial system of Maryland has given everyone who speaks a language from a specific part of the world the opportunity to get away with criminal activity by claiming they do not understand enough English to stand trial without an interpreter. Truly a disgusting and damning example of a flawed judicial system.
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