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The moderator for Thursday's Sudanese panel discussion said some of her comments were misunderstood.
Ann Sukraw-Lutz said her comment about Sudanese families having difficult decisions to make in silencing a child when soldiers enter a community seeking out residents referenced the "physical restraint of a child" or "a mother's loving touch" to quiet the child when soldiers were present.
The Independent inferred the difficult decision making to include sacrificing a crying child in order to save the remaining family members in hiding.
The newspaper incorrectly reported that a crying Sudanese child was murdered by a family member while the family was in hiding from soldiers in Sudan during that country's continuing civil war.
The error was in a Friday article about the Sudanese panel discussion hosted by Grand Island's Multicultural Coalition on Thursday.
Sukraw-Lutz said the error has put a negative light on what she viewed as a positive and candid discussion meant to encourage community building with some of the city's newest immigrants.
She also expressed disappointment about the reality of child abuse in both the Sudanese and American cultures being characterized in the news article as abuse that is accepted in Sudan.
Sukraw-Lutz said no such child abuse is accepted but does from time to time occur, as it does in the United States.
"We know that alcoholism, domestic violence and child abuse transcend all races, all ethnic and cultural groups and economic sectors of our community," Sukraw-Lutz said.
She said Grand Island's Sudanese immigrants are a loving and law-abiding community, who see great potential and opportunity in their new home in the United States.
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