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• The most serious problems Americans have encountered in this arena include rape by a foreign attache's son, assault by the son of a foreign Ambassador to the United States, child abuse, and sexual assault by an emissary
• "prejudice United States foreign relations and impair the performance of diplomatic
• functions.' After weighing foreign relations interests against the benefit of such service, the court concluded that the former outweighed the latter and upheld diplomatic immunity.I
• Yet another precedent is the inability of courts to compel diplomatic officials to testify at trials.
• Grotius believed that ambassadors were protected by both "divine and human law"' 8 and violation of such law would "not only [be] unjust but also impious."'

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