Toronto.– After two years of fighting the Dominican court system, Canadian Carrie McGinnis has been recognized by the superior courts as
having a case worth hearing.
Jordan Morrison, McGinnis and Dale Morrison's 19-year-old son, was beaten at the Punta Cana Grand Paradise Bavaro resort on Feb. 4, 2011,
after an altercation at the resort's bar.
The website brantfordexpositor.ca reported that five men from the Montreal area were initially detained but only two were arrested after Morrison tried to defend a young woman when
several men at the bar were rude to her.
Last year, Dymtro Aref Yev was found guilty of Morrison's death and
sentenced to 10 years in a Dominican jail. His friend, and co-accused Bouzid Redha, was released after the judge determined it was Yev who had struck the fatal blow.
Jordan's mother is appealing the result of the trial because not all of the
evidence was presented including eyewitness accounts of the attack that
state Redha played a significant role in the attack, the website reported.
From: Dominican Republic
This was typical Dominican justice and inefficiency in the courts. I know the inside of this case, and it is an embarrassment of how this family has been misrepresented. A total farce and a reflection of how our lawmakers and enforcers haven't the sophistication or process of those doing the same in other countries....although they like to think of themselves as such.
Written by: synapse, 26 Jan 2013 11:38 AM
From: United States
Do you really expect justice in a Banana Republic where justice is a traded commodity bought and sold openly. I am sure the other guy just had enough money to buy his way out and the other only had enough to buy a reduced sentence and will be out in 4 after his last installment payment for good behavior. They probably let him have girls and go to the beach while serving his sentence.
From: Canada
Mike: You're 100% correct, but let’s also include the subtext in this. I've just come back from the RD and I was sickened by the predatory swagger that the young men have toward all women there. It's as if it's open season on the ladies.
In my experience the Russian men were by far the worst. They were treating the resort like it was their own personal toilet, and garbage dump. They cat called, and besmirched any female that they chose to target. However the Russians were not alone in this - just the worst. The Russian ladies were not much better. They were also a strutting, haughty league, full of contempt. To some of the tourists; the more depressed the locals, the more right to impunity.
And yet, the real story - in this aspect - is that the resorts do nothing to extinguish this kind of behaviour. The Resorts and the RD Board of Tourism need to do a MUCH better job at reminding people that your island is not a place for vulgar, juvenile tourist prats.
From: Dominican Republic
Originalmrb, from Canada:
You are questioning behavior of Russian tourists, from your perspective.
Russian tourists were not involved in "beating to death" another tourist, but all group were Canadians, and the kid Jordan also was from Canada.
So lets leave Russians to be vulgar, at least they are not killing anybody with sticks.
Written by: juanb, 26 Jan 2013 12:06 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Yet
From: Canada
@ miloskoracbanned
Sorry, I fear you've missed my point - or I've missed delivering it.
It did not escape me that this young man was killed by other Canadians.
To clarify the primary point of my comment is that the attitude toward females is at the root of this death. As long as the males feel themselves to be without retribution for their acts, and/or that women are for nothing more than their pleasures, then this will not go away and will happen again - especially when drink is involved, (as it so often is).
My secondary point is that nothing is ever done with these moronic cockerels when they step over the line - which is tasseled permission for more of the same or worse. You cannot promote an 'anything goes' culture and expect that no one will be hurt.
Surely the Russians contempt is only the recent prime example of what is still wrong. Thus, brutality, rape, mayhem, and death are what can happen if this behaviour is not checked before it begins and repeats.
From: Dominican Republic, calle A.Portes
Mike ..I assume you are talking about the inefficiencies of the prosecutors offices
From: Dominican Republic
It is a very sad situation that one group of drunk persons attacks and kill another.
Probably who suffer the most are parents of Jordan.
From: Norway
Dymtro Aref Yev sounds to me like a russian name, Bouzid Redha a arabic. How come Canadians?They wouldnt happen to be muslims??
From: Dominican Republic
Ricky...not just the prosecutors.... type in Jordan Morrison on google and read the article from the Barrie Examiner....typical Dominican Kangaroo court where victims seldom get justice and admitted slime get off with hand slaps.
Written by: pelaut, 27 Jan 2013 8:52 AM
From: United States
So Dymtro Aref Yev and Bouzid Redha are typical Canuck names?
From: Dominican Republic
Oddly enough...try to find a picture of either of these pieces of shit...or the 3 other thugs. Type in any name and see what comes up. Normally when somebody gets convicted of killing someone...we see who it is...why not this guy?
Written by: DaveB, 27 Jan 2013 9:27 PM
From: United States
Not even close to a Russian name. Dmitri is Russian. The second name would be a patronymic, a modification of his father's name with ich on the end. Might be from a Russian Jewish family, and changed his name after you left the country but he's not ethnically Russian.
Written by: jasfalon, 5 Feb 2013 8:10 AM
From: United States
Punta Cana is not the Dominican Republic. It's just a jumble of shitty all-inclusive hotels on sterile beaches, that people visit to get brown skin, fat, drunk, and laid. What do you expect there, discussions about Dominican art and culture?
Written by: jasfalon, 5 Feb 2013 8:13 AM
From: United States
Oh I forgot, and coke that's been cut so many times that there's only one atom of coke in each line.
Written by: jasfalon, 5 Feb 2013 8:15 AM
From: United States
...and that brown sticky, seedy, budless Haitian weed.
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In my experience the Russian men were by far the worst. They were treating the resort like it was their own personal toilet, and garbage dump. They cat called, and besmirched any female that they chose to target. However the Russians were not alone in this - just the worst. The Russian ladies were not much better. They were also a strutting, haughty league, full of contempt. To some of the tourists; the more depressed the locals, the more right to impunity.
And yet, the real story - in this aspect - is that the resorts do nothing to extinguish this kind of behaviour. The Resorts and the RD Board of Tourism need to do a MUCH better job at reminding people that your island is not a place for vulgar, juvenile tourist prats.
You are questioning behavior of Russian tourists, from your perspective.
Russian tourists were not involved in "beating to death" another tourist, but all group were Canadians, and the kid Jordan also was from Canada.
So lets leave Russians to be vulgar, at least they are not killing anybody with sticks.
Yet
@ miloskoracbanned
Sorry, I fear you've missed my point - or I've missed delivering it.
It did not escape me that this young man was killed by other Canadians.
To clarify the primary point of my comment is that the attitude toward females is at the root of this death. As long as the males feel themselves to be without retribution for their acts, and/or that women are for nothing more than their pleasures, then this will not go away and will happen again - especially when drink is involved, (as it so often is).
My secondary point is that nothing is ever done with these moronic cockerels when they step over the line - which is tasseled permission for more of the same or worse. You cannot promote an 'anything goes' culture and expect that no one will be hurt.
Surely the Russians contempt is only the recent prime example of what is still wrong. Thus, brutality, rape, mayhem, and death are what can happen if this behaviour is not checked before it begins and repeats.
Probably who suffer the most are parents of Jordan.
Punta Cana is not the Dominican Republic. It's just a jumble of shitty all-inclusive hotels on sterile beaches, that people visit to get brown skin, fat, drunk, and laid. What do you expect there, discussions about Dominican art and culture?
...and that brown sticky, seedy, budless Haitian weed.