Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student who had been detained in North Korea since January 2016, died in the U.S. on June 19.(Reuters)in North Korea—lost her adjunct position on Sunday.
“Katherine Dettwyler, who last taught in the spring as an adjunct faculty member, will not be rehired to teach at the University in the future, the school said in a statement.
Warmbier, who arrived back on U.S. soil after his North Korean release in mid-June, suffered extensive loss of brain tissue and was in a state of “unresponsive wakefulness” when he arrived, according to his U.S. doctors. He died on June 19 at the age of 22.
Warmbier, traveling in the rogue nation on an organized tour, had been sentenced to a lengthy term of hard labor for allegedly taking a propaganda poster from his hotel in early 2016. His family and the Trump administration said they had grown increasingly frustrated with slow progress by the Obama administration to secure the student’s return, though the former president claimed in a statement that officials had never stopped trying to bring the man home. Warmbier was one of three Americans currently known to be detained by North Korea.
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Dettwyler reportedly wrote on her personal Facebook page that Warmbier had a “typical of a mindset of a lot of the young, white, rich, clueless males who come into my classes,” the Associated Press said. The post has since been removed.
The professor added that the University of Virginia student “got exactly what he deserved.”
Source:marketwatch.com