I've been to many of the resort areas in the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. From personal observation, I know that if you are old enough to put your money on the bar, you are old enough to drink. We took our 14 and 16 year old granddaughters to Puerto Vallarta with us several years ago.
They were both offered mixed drinks at various restaurants. We did allow the sixteen yr. old a pina colada, but not the 14 yr. old. They were and still are beautiful blue-eyed blondes. I cannot imagine them there without close supervision/protection. We are taking them again this winter (one just graduated from college, the other is now a junior at the U. of Wyo.) There is no way their parents would allow them to go alone. Call us old-fashioned, but that's just the way it is. Children look to us for, and need protection.
That said, the guilty one is the one who killed this beautiful child. Not the parents and not the chaperones.
Her family needs to befriend a "charles bronson" type and let him go in and do whatever needs doing...they only understand if you do to them 10 times worse than they do to you.
that scares 'em to death......and if it doesn't, shoot 'em to death!!!!!!
True.....only the murderer is guilty of murder...
However -- lots of folks contributed to the scenario that resulted in murder..
If any one of those folks had acted differently, the murder wouldn't have ocurred as it did...
Too many of the "safeguards" that should have been in place ---- failed, and a young girl died.
Semper Fi