[SamAdams76]

I'd hate to rain on the parade here but the fix is likely already in this Vandersloot character and when the media finds some other sensationalist story to write about and this Vandersloot affair falls off the radar, he'll be on a boat to some safe haven where he'll resume the privileged lifestyle he previously enjoyed.

After all, money talks and the Vandersloot family has plenty of it. So mark my words, this kid will NEVER be exposed to the general population of a Peruvian jail. In the near future, he'll be moved to the Peru version of "Club Fed" where he'll get color television, plenty of outdoor time for exercise (perhaps a little tennis and golf even) and conjugal visits from some of the fangirls who are sure to flock to him and write him with the usual marriage proposals (even Charles Manson gets love letters in jail).

After a while, when the rest of us have forgotten about him, he'll be removed from his "Club Fed" and put on a boat to some tropical paradise where his mommy will have $500,000 or more in an account for him so that he can go back to drinking mai tais on the beach and playing poker in the casinos.

We have to realize that people like the Kennedys and Vandersloots are different than the rest of us. Ted Kennedy can get hammered, drive a girl off a bridge and abandon her to drown while he sobers up and calls his lawyers to "fix things" because he is one of the "beautiful people." Ditto for this Vandersloot boy. He too is a "beautiful person" and he'll soon be back at the casinos trolling for his next victim.

[caww]

Yep...you could be right..money can bribe governments without a hitch.

[stuartcr]

I do not believe the family is that well off, especially nothing like the Kennedys. The father was just a lawyer/judge.

[La Lydia]

I don’t think you have a complete grasp of the political situation and public opinion down there. This is way beyond influence and money. He is a gringo who has challenged and insulted their national honor. This is the Lori Berenson on case on meth. Unless you have been reading the Peruvian newspapers and watching their TV coverage for the past week, you can’t imagine how this has been processed in the Peruvian psyche. Any public official who let him go, for any amount of money, would be lynched. He will be lucky to survive to his trial, and the only reason he will is that, again, Peruvian honor is at stake.

[1951Boomer]

I tend to think that way myself after seeing rich, “beautiful” people like the Kennedys skate when the rank and file do not. However, the Flores family is also influential and famous in that country. Not sure how “forgiving” they will be toward Vanderslime.