Pittsburgh: Language barriers complicate refugee mental health treatment

A radio station reporter has discovered that Pittsburgh, PA has taken a lot of refugees in need of health treatment (including mental health treatment) that they may not be getting.  I’ll bet it’s happening where you live too, and partly because no one is available to translate for the mental health provider. The issue of … Continue reading Pittsburgh: Language barriers complicate refugee mental health treatment

Utah refugee trial opens with paramedic describing “horror scene”

Yesterday we reported that jury selection had begun in the trial of a Burmese refugee accused of raping and murdering a 7-year-old fellow refugee in 2008. From KSL.com (Utah): SALT LAKE CITY — Paramedic Andrew Maurer well remembers being led into a South Salt Lake basement where the body of 7-year-old missing girl had just … Continue reading Utah refugee trial opens with paramedic describing “horror scene”

Utah: Trial begins for Burmese Muslim who killed fellow refugee girl

This is a horrible case we reported from the time it happened in 2008.  I’ll bet you won’t hear about it even on Fox News! Yesterday, jury selection began in the murder trial of Esar Met who was arrested shortly after the murder of a Hser Ner Moo  a 7-year-old Burmese Karen Christian girl who … Continue reading Utah: Trial begins for Burmese Muslim who killed fellow refugee girl

Utah: After nearly six years trial to begin in case of Burmese refugee who allegedly raped and murdered 7-year-old

Wow!  I wondered what had happened to this case we reported back in 2008, and just tonight up pops the news that the trial will begin in January for Esar Met who we learned in 2012 is a Burmese Muslim (a Rohingya?).   The victim, Hser Ner Moo, was a Christian and both had been resettled … Continue reading Utah: After nearly six years trial to begin in case of Burmese refugee who allegedly raped and murdered 7-year-old

Burmese refugee on trial for murder in Utah might be saved from death penalty, why?

He may have lied on his documents to get into the US and may have been under 18 when he allegedly brutally raped and murdered a little Burmese Christian girl in 2008.   Gee, I wonder where his defense lawyers got this idea (4 years later!)?  Could they have been watching the Somali trial in Tennessee … Continue reading Burmese refugee on trial for murder in Utah might be saved from death penalty, why?