OPINION: It's a wonderful world – not so much!

by Caroline Solomon
| June 26, 2016 11:19 AM

How wonderful life would be if we could look at a picture and say “I want to help these people” and that would be the end of the story.

Unfortunately, Ms. Mary Poole, it is not the end of the story. The little boy whose picture you mentioned, Alyan Kurdi, whose death pulled at your heart strings to become involved and bring in refugees in our wonderful state of Montana, did not have to die.

Alyan’s father was living in full safety in Turkey! There was no need at all for him to try and persuade his family to be smuggled and taken in boats anywhere. There is no war in Turkey. Even in Syria, people live away from the war zone. The mother was worried and did not feel it was safe to take small children at night on rugged waters, and did not want to travel. But as a Muslim woman who would listen to her? Her opinion does not matter, and it’s the man who makes the final decision. The same man who had no problems saving himself but had left his family to drown.

So, in my opinion, it was this man who caused the death of his entire family by his assumption he could receive quick money in a foreign country — all because the European government keeps feeding these ideas, dangling a carrot in front of them, sending ships to pick them up and encourage them to take the risk and giving reinforcement to the fairy tales of people smugglers. Alyan’s father is a perfect example. They are economic migrants. Not refugees.

And now we would like to ask you, Ms. Poole, how you ”feel” about this little girl with special needs in Twin Falls, who on June 2 was allegedly taken by knifepoint to the shared laundry at her home in Fawnbrook Apartments by three boys from two refugee families, ages reportedly 13, 9 and 8 years old, who sexually assaulted and urinated on her? The 8-year-old is also reported to have cut another young child’s arm with his knife a week before school was adjourned.

According to the victim’s mother, a trusted neighbor discovered her daughter with the three boys. Her clothes had supposedly been stripped off by the boys, who were also naked, and the 13-year-old had a phone which allegedly held a video of the incident. The mother and father of the victim promptly arrived on the scene after being alerted by the neighbor.

The video on the phone displayed the sexual assault of the 5-year-old girl, according to the father who viewed it, and reportedly shows the older boy coaching the younger ones during the assault and attempted rape of the little girl as well as urinating in her mouth and over her body as they pinned her against her will.

The mother took the victim home immediately, stating she was going to the police. Shortly after arriving home, the mother of one of the attackers showed up at the victim’s home demanding in broken English, “No police, everything OK.”

The mother of the victim also reported receiving threats from two young men of Middle Eastern descent, who told her they will come after her if she pursues the matter with the police.

So, Ms. Poole, you have done everything in your power to bring “unvetted” refugees in our great state. Are you ready to be responsible for what happens next?

(Update: This “incident” which occurred on June 2, 2016, has now been “sealed” from public record due to the suspects’ ages. We wonder why?)