Don't drop case because translator unavailable

I just read an article in the Sunday Pantagraph about a case against an alleged child molester that was dropped because they could not find a translator for the defendant (``Case dropped with lack of translator,'' Page A6). His native language was Vai.The prosecutors had witnesses, DNA and the 7-year-old girl said that she had been raped and repeatedly molested for over a year. But, without a translator fluent in Vai, the judge dismissed the case and it can't be retried.Is there no common sense in the world any more?The man was granted asylum in the United States. So if he doesn't speak English and has no one to translate, how did he get asylum? Surely, we have some criteria to use to decide who gets asylum.Obviously someone spoke Vai, or he was able to speak English well enough to pose his case for asylum. So, he gets a free pass to go out and molest other 7-year-old girls, or maybe he has a free ticket to go out and kill people? Where do you draw the line?How does he support himself? Does he have a job, where he doesn't have to speak English, or are we also supporting him with out tax dollars?How does he get food and shelter? Either he speaks English, or someone is translating for him.This is the stupidest miscarriage of justice that I have heard of in a long time. The judge should be removed from the bench, and the defendant should be sent back to where he came from and language will not be an issue.Donna Thacker