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...typical victim of the Thai trade in prepubescent sex is Armine Sae Li, 14. She was spirited away from northern Chiang Rai province at age 12 when child traffickers convinced her parents they would give her a good job in a beach- resort restaurant. When she reached Phuket, a center for sex tourism, she was forced into prostitution in conditions of virtual slavery until she was rescued last December by Thai police. But they arrived too late; Armine has tested HIV-positive and will die of AIDS...
...Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, refusing to act officially because no formal complaint had been filed, has left any investigation of whether Li did influence Liem to one person: Liem himself...
Liem, who has the final say on all tutor hirings, says he trusts Li "immensely" and has been close with him ever since Li was his advisee in the Biology Department as an undergraduate. But he has made repeated firm denials that he was influenced by Li on the four hirings...
Liem himself has said he would not fire Li. "I can't [fire Li]," Liem said. "That wouldn't be fair to the people involved...
Peter J. Kolovis '93 says numerous pre-med students are afraid to voice their concern that two brothers, Vincent and William Li, will be co-chairs of the house's pre-med committee next year, for fear of retaliation in the form of negative letters of recommendations from the two tutors...