
10-28-2009, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Morally speaking, WTF.
Legally speaking, I don't know all the facts, but I can't see anything indicating anyone had any sort of duty to act here. If you think about the ramifications of imposing a duty to act on any witness to a crime, you'll probably pretty quickly figure out that'd be a bad idea.
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Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest
Okay but can we be empathetic for a second and not spew the legalities all the time? You know darn well and so does everyone else, that if it were your mother, sister, aunt, daughter, etc. being abused, you would hope to God that someone would certainly not exercise their "rights" and stand there and do absolutely nothing.
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He actually did say he was shocked at what happened, but legally certain things applied.
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