Agency Seeks to Deport Man In Rape Case Under Appeal {Liberian child molester)

Washington Post ^ | September 20, 2007 | Ernesto Londoño

[3AngelaD]

BALTIMORE -- Immigration officials intend to deport a Liberian man who avoided trial in a child-rape case this summer in Montgomery County primarily because of difficulty in finding him a court interpreter, authorities said Wednesday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior attorney Christopher R. Coxe said the agency will seek to deport Mahamu Kanneh, who was in the U.S. legally after being granted refugee status as a teenager, regardless of the disposition of the rape case, which is under appeal. Kanneh was arrested in 2004 on charges of raping a 7-year-old relative and abusing another child.

"There is no indication that [Kanneh] would be eligible for relief from removal," Coxe said in immigration court during a bond hearing...

U.S. Immigration Judge Elizabeth A. Kessler said immigration officials revoked Kanneh's refugee status last month. The charging document used to detain Kanneh accuses him of entering the country without inspection... Refugees typically are able to become permanent residents and U.S. citizens.

Kanneh, 23, was taken into custody by immigration officials last month after a Montgomery judge denied prosecutors' requests that he be detained pending the appeal of the criminal case...A county judge dismissed second-degree rape and sex-abuse charges in July filed against Kanneh after finding that his right to a speedy trial had been violated...Kanneh, appeared without a lawyer during the immigration hearing. A court interpreter participated by phone.

Kanneh asked the judge to release him on bond in the immigration case, saying that he attended hearings in the rape case and does not pose a danger to the community...

Montgomery officials have said Kanneh tried to flee when law enforcement officials found him in Philadelphia... Kessler declined to set bond in the immigration case...

[3AngelaD]

Note: Maryland lower courts still doing everything they can to cut this guy loose. This is not rocket science. Try him for child rape, make him serve his sentence, then deport him, and let the people in his home country know what kind of a fellow he is.

[null and void]

Note: Maryland lower courts still doing everything they can to cut this guy loose. This is not rocket science. Try him for child rape, make him serve his sentence, then deport him, and let the people in his home country know what kind of a fellow he is.

Near perfect. I'd only add:

...make him serve his sentence in gen pop,...

[bboop]

He can do all the illegal things there he wants to AND he’ll have every court translator needed.

[3AngelaD]

Notice how they managed to find a translator for this particular procedure, despite the failure of the Maryland court system to find a translator for his rape prosecution.

[gubamyster]

ping

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah, we noticed.

[dennisw]

Amazing what it takes to rid ourselves of such POS. We used to have more national pride where a foreign born ghoul would be cut zero slack, would be flushed immediately.