The children should not be punished
The criminal perpetrator is the “coach”
he should be held on criminal negligence and attempted murder
The man must be removed from all future contact with these victims
He should be identified as a criminal felon
The children should not be punished
The criminal perpetrator is the “coach”
he should be held on criminal negligence and attempted murder
The man must be removed from all future contact with these victims
He should be identified as a criminal felon
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Oh, no. Not another one...
Theo admitted they were wrong. Maybe you should do some reading up on this as well before spouting such nonsense (this thread will provide all the information you need, by the way).
From post 17:
1. The Thai soccer coach did NOT lead the boys into the cave, he found their bicycles and went into the cave seeking them out. His presence was heroic as he helped calm them, rationed food, and led them in prayer.
2. The boys and the coach were driven further into the cave by waters rushing in from Monsoon rains. The boys did not know how to swim. Their only reaction was to run away. They ended up several miles deep into the cave from the entrance.
And from another post today:
How Buddhist meditation kept the Thai boys calm in the cave Vox ^ | 07/10/18 | Eliza Barclay
Posted on 7/10/2018, 8:59:18 AM by Simon Green
When the 12 Thai boys who were trapped in a cave and were rescued one by one were first discovered by British divers a week ago, they were reportedly meditating.
“Look at how calm they were sitting there waiting. No one was crying or anything. It was astonishing,” the mother of one of the boys told the AP, referring to a widely shared video of the moment the boys were found.
Turns out that their coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, who led them on a hike into the cave when it flooded on June 23, trained in meditation as a Buddhist monk for a decade before becoming a soccer coach. According to multiple news sources, he taught the boys, ages 11 to 16, to meditate in the cave to keep them calm and preserve their energy through their two-week ordeal.
“He could meditate up to an hour,” Ekapol’s aunt, Tham Chanthawong, told the AP. “It has definitely helped him and probably helps the boys to stay calm.”
Ekapol, 25, went to live in a monastery at age 12 after he was orphaned. According the Straits Times, he trained to be a monk for 10 years at a monastery in Mae Sai, Thailand, but left to care for a sick grandmother. He then was hired to be the assistant coach of the team, known as the Wild Boars.
Coach Ake, as he is known, still maintains close contacts at the monastery. The abbot there told the Wall Street Journal he’s “a responsible young man who meditates regularly.”
Please read Post #17 above before condemning the coach.
If my boys were trapped in a cave I’d hope a Ekapol Chanthawong was with them. And if my boys were rescued at 15, 16 or 17 years of age, after I held them close i would shake them asking what were you thinking? You let an 11 year old follow you? You should have known better!
You’re obviously uninformed.
On what grounds is he guilty of all this? What drives your "guilty before proven innocent" visceral reaction? Animus towards such authority figures in general?