After her emergency surgery the family never returned to that house. After the initial interviews and a pleasant visit from the DPS commissioner the family has heard little on the progress of identifying the attacker.
The family is confident that the police investigators are doing everything they can to assure an arrest and closure to this trauma, but after almost three weeks they are distraught.
The person who did this heinous crime is one of us. If the person who did this crime is a civil servant, I don’t want them checking my meter. If the person who did this is a teacher I don’t want them in my children’s classroom. If he is a preacher I don’t want him in my church, if he is a policeman I don’t want him answering a call when I’m vulnerable. If he is your brother he needs help.
This is not L. A., nor is it the NYC subway where random violence happens and the criminal blends into the horde of people coming and going. This is Saipan, an island in the Pacific with a finite population. We know who has come to our island and left it. The longer this crime goes unsolved the more chance that person will leave and go unpunished.
We all wish this did not happen. It did. It happened to all of us.
We should all be having the nightmares she is having. If you have any information regarding this detestable act please contact Crime Stoppers at 234-7272. You do not have to leave your name.
SUSAN FISHMAN-TUDOR
Sadog Tase, Saipan
