Backlash swells over Peace Corps worker's role in death...
The mother of a man killed in a 2019 car crash involving an American woman who left the United Kingdom and avoided prosecution said she was stunned to learn a similar incident occurred just days before in Africa. In that case, U.S. officials whisked from Tanzania a Peace Corps employee who killed a mother of three in a car crash after drinking at a bar and bringing a sex worker back to his home.
Charlotte Charles — whose 19-year-old son Harry Dunn died when the wife of a U.S. State Department employee driving on the wrong side of the road struck him with her car — called U.S. officials “barbaric” for helping Peace Corps employee John M. Peterson avoid prosecution in Tanzania after he fatally struck Rabia Issa. The U.S. Department of Justice has also declined to pursue charges against Peterson, citing a lack of jurisdiction.
“My heart really hurts for that family,” Charles told USA TODAY. “I know what it's like to feel completely abandoned by the U.S. government. I know what it's like to have my child or, in their circumstances, a family member, just swept under the carpet. Like their life didn't matter. Like we mean absolutely nothing in comparison to the U.S. government.”
Although Dunn’s case drew international attention and caused diplomatic tensions between the United States and British governments, Issa’s August 2019 death three days prior remained almost completely hidden. The only public accounting of the incident was tucked in a routine Peace Corps Office of the Inspector General report to Congress last year that didn’t name Peterson, Issa or even the country where the incident occurred.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2022/01/18/peace-corps-worker-killed-woman-africa-reaction-rabia-issa/9115232002/
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This is WRONG. Peterson did NOT have diplomatic immunity!
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It was grueling work by a bunch of kids straight out of college. No pubs, no sex workers. They were in the mountains in the middle of a jungle, trying to set up basic services for a village. He said they were all volunteers. Their food and accommodations were covered, which were basic at best, but they did not make money from it.
