Posted on 01/18/2008 3:03:18 AM PST by raybbr
LA VERGNE, Tenn. - An 18-year-old Salvadoran man was arrested and charged with raping a child.
Authorities said he should not have been living in the United States because he emigrated illegally.
Police arrested Diego Francisco Escobar-Landaverde for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl.
Police initially denied having sex with the girl over weekend. The girl told her mother what happened the next day.
"He admitted having sex with a 12-year-old," said La Vergne Police Chief Ted Boyd.
Police are linking Escobar-Landaverde to a sexual attack on a young girl inside a vacant mobile home.
His charge renews an ongoing debate about how to trace illegal immigrants who are, in the eyes of some investigators, untraceable.
Boyd said he doesn't have a Social Security number or driver's license.
More and more illegal immigrants crowd county jails.
This leaves sheriffs and police chiefs wondering how to charge them, whether to deport them or not and how to get around an obvious language barrier.
"It's a problem," said La Vergne Police Lt. Stace Thompson.
A stumbling block, police said, is no excuse for breaking the law.
"I don't think that there's a clear understanding that it's not acceptable here by those people when they come from some other place," Thompson said.
Escobar-Landaverde is from El Salvador.
"Right now, it would appear that he should not be here," Thompson said.
Escobar-Landaverde was deported out of Rio Grande, Texas, nearly two years ago.
The federal government is extending a helping hand to police, offering training on how to handle such foreign offenders.
It is an idea the chief in La Vergne embraces.
"It's something we're going to look into, and if it's feasible and it's something that we can do to help our community -- then we're going to do it," Boyd said.
Escobar-Landaverde's relatives, who speak little English, claimed he has until this March to get out of the country.
He told police it was consensual sex, but the alleged victim, who is also Salvadoran, disagreed.
Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement will take him into custody after La Vergne police finish with him.
Rutherford County Sheriff's deputies are also on-board with the government's 287-G program, a how-to course on handling illegal immigrants.
But a spokesman said, for some reason, ICE officials have pushed back the start date.
I think you just gave that adequate reply.
Yep - that would do it. But it’s too simple of an answer for politicians (except Fred).
They had a choice this time, but so far have either failed to recognize it or do not want it. The media and party elites get the better part of the electorate involved in the horse race and tactical nonsense, and so it goes.
The only candidate in the race that has done anything to secure our borders, address the ChiCom menace, worked to build a strong national defense goes largely unnoticed. The only one working for them on the issues they say are important to them and they throw him under the bus and allow themselves to be steered by the rhetoric of a media they claim to distrust.
Hunter has done 10 times more in the fight against abortion than the rest combined, yet Huckabee sails smoothly through the primaries bearing that standard. Just one reason among many, that when the Hunter campaign ends, so does my time as a Republican.
“Police initially denied having sex with the girl over weekend.”
WTF?
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Nice find Aunt B. Thanks.
Giuliani's multiple global businesses would reap a bonanza if this self-absorbed little runt (and his backers) ever got their greedy hands on the federal budget.
BS, cops already know how to fire there weapons, just place the barrel behind right ear of the raping illegal and pull trigger.
i can name at least one who would have ;)
but at the time...she was soooo worth it!....aaahhh young love.
but she wasnt 12...thats for damn sure.
Boyd said he doesn't have a Social Security number or driver's license. "
I guess just give them a SS number and DL...lol
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