Undocumented Immigrant Accused Of Raping Classmate

[Satanica]

Hat tip to BG.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/us/maryland-undocumented-student-rape/index.html

(CNN)News that one of the two Maryland high school students accused of raping a schoolmate was allegedly in the country unlawfully has caught the attention of the White House.

The student, 18-year-old Henry Sanchez-Milian, was arrested Thursday at Rockville High School in Rockville, Maryland, along with 17-year-old classmate Jose Montano. Both students are being charged as adults with first-degree rape and two counts each of committing a first-degree sexual offense, Montgomery County Police said.
Andrew Jezic, attorney for Sanchez-Milian, told CNN on Wednesday, "Our client will plead 100% not guilty."

Following Sanchez-Milian's arrest, ICE issued an immigration detainer, an order to local law enforcement to hold a suspect for a pending immigration review.
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Last month, President Donald Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security to create an office tasked with focusing on crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants.

Asked about the story at a Tuesday briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer called the crime "horrendous and horrible and disgusting." "I think part of the reason the president has made illegal immigration and crackdown such a big deal is because of tragedies like this," he said.

[....] school officials rejected the notion that the incident has national implications.

"While some would try to make this into a question and issue of immigration, what comes down here is we serve every student who walks through our door," said Jack R. Smith, superintendent of the Montgomery County Public Schools. "We are a public school system, and we serve all of our students when they come to us."

"People choose to do very bad things," Smith said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference. "Mostly, they don't choose to do them in schools, but sometimes they do. And that is horrible, it's unacceptable, its tragic, but schools -- relative to the rest of the world -- are among the most safe places we can be in our community. "

Spicer nonetheless called for a review of school guidelines. "The President recognizes that education is a state-run and a local-run issue but I think it is -- it is cause for concern, what happened there.
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In his response, the press secretary also characterized the victim as a person who chose to come to America legally.

"This young woman, in particular, fought to come to this country legally because of the freedoms and the treasures of this nation," he said. "And to think that this kind of tragedy would occur to someone who's personally endured that kind of struggle to come to this nation and then face this is reprehensible."
On that point, however, Montgomery County Police Capt. James Humphries called the White House's narrative into question.

"I have no information that she is anything other than a US citizen," he said.
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Matthew Bourke, a spokesman for ICE, said Sanchez-Milian, a citizen of Guatemala, was stopped by a border patrol agent in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, in August 2016. Bourke said Sanchez-Milian was detained for 12 days before being placed with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which reunited him with his family in Maryland.
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Jezic also confirmed that Sanchez-Milian's family paid for the Baltimore-bound flight from Texas.
At that time, the agent determined that Sanchez-Milian was in the United States illegally, having crossed over from Mexico without proper documentation. Sanchez-Milian was ordered to appear before an immigration judge. That hearing has yet to be scheduled.

Bourke said such a delay in an immigration hearing was "not atypical" and that Sanchez-Milian had been free to travel in the interim.
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The alleged rape took place in a school bathroom last Thursday morning.

According to the alleged victim, the younger of the two suspects solicited her for sex in a school hallway. When she refused, he forced her into a boy's bathroom. Both the suspects then allegedly raped her inside a bathroom stall.

Sanchez-Milian is due in court on April 14. Montano has a hearing scheduled for March 31.

 

[lithiumgirl]

"I have no information that she is anything other than a US citizen,"

Um okay ... not that it matters, they forced her into a bathroom and sexually assaulted her.

 

[Sejanus]

What a couple of charming A-holes that play wonderfully into Trumps narrative.
Break their legs and drop them in a desert.

 

[TheMorningStar]

The father of a teenager accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom stall at a Maryland high school has been arrested by federal authorities for being in the U.S. illegally, officials said.

Adolfo Sanchez-Reyes, a 43-year-old citizen of Guatemala, is being held at a Maryland detention center and was ordered to appear in immigration court, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

His son’s case was highlighted by the Trump administration as evidence of a need for stricter immigration laws as local jurisdictions across the country declare themselves “sanctuary cities.”

The son, Henry E. Sanchez-Milian, 18, along with a classmate, approached the victim earlier this month in the hallway at Rockville High School, where the classmate asked her to have sex, according to the Montgomery County Police Department.

She told police she refused.

Authorities say the classmate, 17-year-old Jose O. Montano, pushed the girl into a boy’s bathroom. She said she grabbed onto a sink to avoid being forced into a stall, but Montano pulled her in, according to court records.

Sanchez-Milian entered the stall, where he and Montano took turns raping the girl while she repeatedly told them to stop, the documents said.

Montano denied having sexual contact with the girl, telling authorities they went into the bathroom “to tell jokes.”

Sanchez-Milian initially said “nothing happened,” but later admitted to “having sex with the victim with his friend Montano,” according to court records.

Both teens were charged with one count of first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree sex offense.

An attorney representing Sanchez-Milian said text messages showed the girl was planning a sexual encounter with Montano at the time of the incident.

“Everybody has jumped to an understandable conclusion, but the strong evidence indicates that both young men are innocent,” said the attorney, Andrew Jezic. “All parties were willing participants.”

Federal immigration authorities detained Sanchez-Milian in August on suspicion of being in the country illegally, but let him go after 12 days, Jezic said.

“ICE investigated Henry thoroughly, found out he had no criminal history, he had no gang ties, he was no threat to the national safety,” Jezic said.

Sanchez-Milian was released to live with his father and ordered to appear before an immigration judge, though a date was not set because his case was not considered a priority because he had no criminal record or previous encounters with immigration officials, according to Gillian Christensen, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security.

“Given his recent criminal arrest, ICE is filing charging documents in immigration court this week,” Christensen said.

Jezic said the teen’s father, who was arrested Friday, is “just a very humble, hardworking guy.” He would not comment on the man’s immigration status.

Maryland court records show that in 2011 the father pleaded guilty to driving without a license.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-father-rape-suspect-maryland-20170328-story.html

 

[Pete Bondurant]

Undocumented Democrats

 

[Satanica]

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...-in-Rockville-School-Rape-Case-421448613.html

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Prosecutors said evidence does not support sexual assault charges. Montano faces pornography and distribution of pornography charges. Sanchez also faces distribution of pornography charges.

The girl reported to police that the two boys approached her in a hallway and asked her to walk with them, police said. Montano asked her for sex, and after she refused, he and Sanchez forced her into a boys' bathroom, where they both raped her and sodomized her, police said.

Her text messages were part of the evidence.
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[Satanica]

So, something in her text messages says what? That she was a participant not a victim?

Yes, I wish they had been able to at least give us a hint but it almost has to be something like that.