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- The_Wallbanger, on 10/11/2007, -2/+201Just to clarify the headline.. the parents knew their child was dead. Only the foul play and rape details were obscured from the family and the public.
- saleem, on 10/11/2007, -5/+138@kg4gyt
1) the university had a legal obligation (Clery Act) to notify their students. end of debate.
2) the university didn't even tell the parents how their daughter died. that is unacceptable.
go on, try to argue. - Makubex, on 10/11/2007, -1/+118I attend Eastern Michigan University, at the time of death an email was sent to everyone with an @emich.edu address, informing about her death. Her body laid there for a good week until someone noticed a smell and her room was checked. The initial emails made it sound like her cause of death was accidental or or natural causes. It was not until later that they released an email stating that there was suspected foul play.
They later stated that they did not release the information to keep from alerting students on campus as well as to try and not compromise the investigation. - ripstuntz, on 10/11/2007, -8/+74Wow.... I smell a lawsuit.
This is a terrible thing... - Rhino2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+55""the university didn't even tell the parents how their daughter died. that is unacceptable.""
Why didn't the police? I'm sure the parents had some contact with them?? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -13/+66Universities are like any other business. If people knew there were murderers walking around they would not send their kids there. So keep it quiet, keep the suckers and their money coming.
- SenatorLampoon, on 10/11/2007, -6/+42Okay, here's what I would do, as a responsible parent, if my healthy, 22 year old daughter suddenly died of some strange cause.
I'd freakin find out what killed her and check the sources 10 times to determine if there were foul play involved. Well, that's what I'd do. - alpha94, on 10/11/2007, -3/+36@saleem
Wouldn't it actually ultimately fall into the realm of the police to inform the parents of the particulars? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+35thats seals the deal for me, I'm going to Yale instead of Eastern Michigan University.
- cphelps, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25"most stupidest"? Wow, just wow.
- mardigrasnut, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21I love the fact that people think they can keep ***** like this secret. I mean come on everything comes out sooner or later.
- saleem, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18@ alpha94
I said the university was legally obligated to tell their students, via the Clery Act. They're obligated to tell the parents only out of human decency. - glock22ownr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20Funny that his parents named him Orange... it's like they knew the color clothing he would be wearing for a majority of his life...
- dan8302, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Um this happened before Virgina Tech so number 2 is out.
- Al3x, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Orange Taylor III is the guy who supposedly did it:
Article:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070323/METRO/703230379/1003
Picture:
http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3&Date=20070323&Category=METRO&ArtNo=703230379&Ref=H3&Profile=1003&MaxW=1500&Q=100&title=1 - Bumblebee418, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15What is with all these college cover ups??? Just this past year at Purdue there was a kid killed and the real story never made it out because the university was too busy making up multiple alibis to cover itself! And now this? It's just plain sick.
- mattxb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12I think the university is fortunate that the killer didn't strike again, then they would really be in *****
- PamalaLauren, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12I have to wonder why the police weren't in contact with the family. How do you conduct a investigation and not talk to the family?
- InfamousAtheist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Sure, nobody knew, which helped the cops... except for the perpetrator, who probably had a clue that the cops were investigating.
Oh, and there's that law that the university broke... oops.
Do I really need my /sarcasm tag? - InfamousAtheist, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11You must be new here... no matter what you have to say, that link in your comments is spam and will get you dugg down to oblivion.
- gfreeman223, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=72940
repost of a link to a seperate article so you can see a picture of the rapist. No biased comments here, you make your own conclusion. - bixel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9@ kg4gyt,
from, http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=72940
"A Vice President at the school has been suspended and an investigation continues into allegations of a cover-up."
um kg4gyt, the only person who seemed to have been stricken by panic and used false reports is the Vice President of the school, maybe transparency is a good thing. - spingk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9@glock22ownr
It depends on the warden and the sheriff, but in most jails orange jumpsuits are only worn when the person is awaiting their trial. - williamdyer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10You are very optimistic about the way PDs are run these days.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Can you imagine the lawsuit if some other student got raped by the same suspect while they were withholding this info?
- krolls, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Wow this is incredibly sad and the school is going to get sued up the butt.
A few years ago my college "lost" a student for almost an entire semester and no one notified parents or police... the kid just stopped showing up on campus, stopped showing up in the dorms, stopped showing up all together. No one said anything... until they found his corpse in the spring when the snow thawed.
CANT WAIT FOR FALL SEMESTER! - DiggzDE, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Surprise surprise...
- DigitalPimptres, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7i'm simply not sure how the parents can keep it all together after something like this...
i wish them well. - xerigen, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Wow, that's pretty sick. I go to EMU and the emails we received from the administration made it seem like it was just some freak health accident. That's nice, I'll be living in the hall right next to Hill next year. Makes you wonder just how safe the campus really is.
- frojo56, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I knew her, we went to high school together... It's a terrible tragedy indeed. So sad. She was so outgoing, and friendly... So much to live for.
- brandon215, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Why aren't the police accountable for notifying the parents. This doesn't sound right. The police are investigating the crime and the family doesn't know?
- ThePict, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5When questioning the intelligence of another, try to spell 'retarded' correctly. Otherwise, you're just shooting yourself in the foot.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Wait - who discovered her body?
Why didn't that person say anything to the rest of the student body? - omatsei, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@alkali: White, black, orange, purple, whatever... I can tell a suspicious ***** when I see one. He looks like a gangbanging thug straight out of Grand Theft Auto... and surprise, surprise, he IS a gangbanging thug straight out of GTA. You post a picture of Ted Kaczynski and I'll say the same thing (well, not the gangbanging part... maybe creepy, cave-dwelling serial killer).
- madaunt60, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The police doing the investigation were Campus Police, in league with the university. They were in contact with us, but did not give us the details of how she was found until they made the arrest in February. We didn't hear all the details until the preliminary hearing.
- cryptoki, on 02/01/2008, -1/+3Profits and reputation first. Justice Last
- darkstar949, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3It is standard practice to preform an autopsy when someone dies under unknown circumstances so that wouldn't have raised any flags for the parents - not everyone can identify the signs of asphyxiation so you can't hold that against them either.
- redslash, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4This is sad and sickening. I totally understand why they wouldn't want the word out (not that that excuses the outright lies, but...). They didn't want to alert the killer, I get it... but there's no reason in the world not to tell the girl's parents. Completely unbelievable.
- HanSolo69, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I go to Virginia Commonwealth University and there were 3 shootings on/next to our campus, which resulted in at least one death and the suspects not being captured and we've had 4 students die, all in the last month and a half or 2 months. We heard about the two shootings where nobody was killed, but nothing about the third (which happened at the exact same place as the second) because the first two made our campus police sound like heroes. He heard vague details about 3 of the deaths (3 kids whose car was run over by a tractor trailer on I-64) about 2 weeks ever it happened and never got a word about the fourth death which was a kid who got hit on his bike.
Colleges have a serious lack of communication skills. - Chubarama, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5What sorts of conclusions are we supposed to make just based on a picture of the guy?
- andyd273, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3I know people here on Digg aren't into the Bible much, but this reminds me again of the verse about how things done in private will be shouted from the rooftops... still true today. The moral, tell the truth right away, and you wont look as bad later.
- Afrotronics, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@israelbehind911
Outstanding my ass, Orange Taylor was kicked out of those dorms when he lived on campus. He is FFFAAARRR from even being an outstanding human being. - InfamousAtheist, on 10/11/2007, -17/+18Are you people ***** serious?
Gross generalizations based on skin color. Please go back to the 19th century, asshats.
I don't care what stats you quote - your perpetuating a cancer on our society with your racist hatred and it's WRONG. - rdmty, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2"People like you make life more difficult for everyone. Have you ever considered the fact that blacks might be more violent because its expected of them?"
Perhaps we should all expect them to kill themselves, it'd make life more easier for everyone else. - x8x8, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1an absolute disgrace they didn't let the students know there was a murderer in the dorm rooms on the loose.....or a possible serial killer!!
offensive to the friends & family of the poor girl and all those at the University.
the students should demand a refund on their terms fees in protest....maybe the chancellor should put some of the money from his $6 million mansion towards compensation!! - stmiller, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Yes, we can all see that picture in TFA.
- williamdyer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4@Rhino
The police don't like publicity about difficult cases. Often, they cook the books about violent crime in their jurisdictions. - straxus, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5"What I don't see in the article or any of your other posts: A link to any statistic or fact that there is > 60 times the chance of one ethnicity targeting and then actually raping another. I am afraid I am going to have to consider it an assfact."
Agreed. References, or it didn't happen. - madaunt60, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1These were the Campus Police, a division of the State Police based on EMU's campus. They never gave us all the details, telling us to wait until they finished their investigation. We were told nothing about how she was found.
- Confuseus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@whitepower
i'm glad someone FINALLY sees the truth. this is definitely a liberal Jewish conspiracy. thanks for the objective analysis.
white power!
bahahaha -
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