Good Samaritan Law: The Kitty Genovese Case

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Base on this reading the Kitty Genovese case, it is sad how know one report this incident to the police it is said that thirty-eight witnesses, supposedly heard the attack and know what was happening. It is hard to have a side in the Good Samaritan Law, because helping other it has to be to the person not a obligation to do so, because it can be harsh to those who don’t want to help because probably they are afraid for revenge of the criminal. This is why not all the people have the strange to help some one because they are afraid or they had been in a position that something bad happens to them. I don’t agree that they need to be punished someone that don’t report the moment of the incident and someone die. But in my case I would do it I

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