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Mother of suspect in death of girl doesn't think he's guilty

this shouldn't even be news, of course a parent is not going to be able to believe what has taken place. Please let the police do their job and allow these poor folk time to grasp the whole situation. The media needs to quit speculating and wait for the facts to be announced. The families are going through a very rough time, give them breathing room.

"Mar said she did not understand the legal system in America..."

Okay, fine... but I'm fairly certain the murder of a child is not okay in Myanmar, either.

You say, "Please let the police do their job and allow these poor folk time to grasp the whole situtation. The media needs to quit specualting and wait for the facts..."

And yet, as you condemn this article and "the media", you sit here and read it. Thusly you are encouraging further reporting like this which appears to bother you.

that's good enough for me. let him go.

Not the mom of the girl DUH! His own mom, who doesn't believe their kids! I teach and coach and usually the parent takes the word of their child even if I know they are lying straight to their face!

What a tragedy for the family of the girl. I send my condolences to them and will keep them in my prayers. May God bless them with peace and comfort, and a knowledge that they will see her again some day...a difficult concept for grieving parents and siblings, especially one who doesn't speak or understand much English. My heart goes out to them.

I hope the person guilty of killing her will be identified and punished equal to the crime, whether it be the man in jail or whoever else it could be.

mom might be right . he might be protecting someone else it wouldn't be a first

I loved the response of the father when asked about the suspect. He said it was none of his business; it was the business of the police. I wish all relatives of murder victims had this same attitude. Often on television I watch families of victims push for convictions of suspects, regardless of the evidence. Juries don't need additional pressure from families as they determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. When DNA evidence first became reliable, a shockingly large percentage of cases in which DNA could be a determining factor resulted in the overturning of wrongful convictions. Sometimes the circumstantial evidence was so flimsy that it makes one wonder how a jury could convict. In one case a son was convicted of murdering his parents primarily because he didn't show what police and the jury thought was an appropriate reaction to the news of their death. Also, the motive was that he would inherit his parents' belongings (and who among us doesn't expect to inherit our parents' belongings upon their death?). Sometimes the major circmstantial evidence of murder is the existence of a life insurance policy. I'm not implying that the police have arrested the wrong person here.

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I think the comment to which you responded was probably meant to be sarcastic. That said, it is difficult to convey sarcasm in text.

What does the ability to speak/understand English have to do with understanding the concept of God's blessings of peace and comfort and a knowledge that they will see her again some day?

RIP Moo and sympathies to her family.

We don't know all the facts, but the facts we do know suggest that Esar Met is the culprit: 1) he confessed, 2) the police released the other supects, 3) Met's clothes were confiscated and he is being held.

why is met not telling what happened that caused the girl's death. This must be pretty bad if there was Trauma to the girl's body. She was only 7. What was he doing to her, or going to do to her?

I believe the punctuation was mixed up on the title of this article.

Instead of "Mother doesn't think he's guilty"

it should read: "Mother doesn't think. He's guilty!"

It's sad when families are so unwilling to accept the truth when one of their own commits a terrible crime.

Esar Met deserves a fair trial to determine his guilt, but having his mother refuse to accept even the possibility that Esar could be guilty of this horrible crime when Hser's body was found in Esar's apartment is disturbing.

Cartoon Wah showed great courage by not lashing out at Esar, but leaving it entirely in the hands of the authorities to determine Esar's fate.

He Deserves the highest sentence available

Im sure the police will find out the truth in this case. In the mean time I pray for her family, that they will have the comfort of God with them. I too lost a son to murder, six years ago. It is a very difficult time for victims families to go through.
May the family have the comfort in knowing that their little daughter is with God, and that nothing again will ever hurt her. May they also know that in due time they will be with her again.

That mother sounds like all too many American mothers: they're sweet little baby could never do anything like that.......

Whatever we loved, whatever we admired in Hser Nay Moo, survives, and will survive in the hearts of men, in the succession of the ages, in the fame that waits on noble deeds. Over many indeed, of those who have gone before, as over the inglorious and ignoble, the waves of oblivion will roll; Hser Nay Moo, made known to posterity by history and tradition, will live for ever.

As a mother of a criminal I can understand how Mah's mother feels. Because I knew nothing about the world of crime I didn't believe that my son was capable of committing the crimes he was accused of. No one in my husband's or my family had ever been involved in any criminal behavior. Our other children were educated responsible citizens. It took hard evidence to wake me up.

no duh..what mother in the world thinks their son could murder a 7 year old girl...