Wife of US Diplomat Attacked in South Korea

This is too late for the LBN forum, but hasn't seen much coverage in the media. I happened to hear about this through a expat forum here in South Korea which had a link to CNN ireport who reported it first.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-831737?ref=feeds%2Flatest

Both the store and the hospital should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen.

The story was then reported by The Korea Times (which is a notoriously horrid newspaper usually):

US diplomat's wife, son attacked in Seoul store
By Kim Rahn

The pregnant wife and son of a U.S. diplomat were attacked by a mentally challenged teenager at a discount store in downtown Seoul, Wednesday.

The Korean wife of Donald E. Townsend Jr., intellectual property rights attache to Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), claimed staffers of the discount outlet E-Mart did nothing to stop the attacker from beating them but instead just watched the scene. Officials of the store said they did their utmost immediately and took appropriate action to defuse the incident.

According to the wife who is nine months pregnant and asked not to be named, she and her four-year-old son were in the toy aisle at the Yeongdeungpo branch of E-Mart in the Times Square shopping mall in the evening along with her father. She came to Korea from Moscow a week ago, where her husband works for the U.S. Embassy, to have her baby.

More at:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/08/117_118186.html