Posted on 04/18/2025 1:36:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
For years, the bright green turf of Whitsett Fields Park has served as a joyous hub for Los Angeles youth soccer — particularly for thousands of immigrant families in the San Fernando Valley.
On most weekends, the sprawling North Hollywood complex echoes with the shouts of hundreds of boys and girls, as vendors hawk aguas frescas, balloons and candy along the sidelines.
But recently, immense grief and worry have settled over this close, Latin American community.
Just last week, a well-known coach and Salvadoran national was charged with murder in the killing of 13-year-old soccer player Oscar Omar Hernandez during a lewd or attempted lewd act and then dumping the boy’s body in a roadside ditch in Ventura County. The coach, who has not yet entered a plea, has also been charged with sexually assaulting another teen and investigators say there are probably more victims who have yet to come forward.
The teen’s slaying has left many in the youth soccer community profoundly shaken. Some say their faith in a long-trusted institution has been broken, and they question why the coach wasn’t scrutinized more carefully before he was allowed to work so closely with children.
“We have never seen anything of this magnitude,” said José Torres, president of the Proyecto 2000 Soccer League in the San Fernando Valley.
The allegation comes at a time when many families are feeling increasingly vulnerable to anti-immigrant sentiment and threats of deportation by the Trump administration — a factor that could complicate the reporting of other possible crimes.
The Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have insisted that immigration status will not be an issue for those who step forward to report alleged sexual assaults.
“We’re not going to ask about that,” Sheriff Robert Luna said.
But it wasn’t...
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Just cultural enrichers reaping cultural enrichment.
Then they can go back to Guatemala where they can trust people.
Interesting. How many were kill by the smugglers? Yet they trust them.
Is Van Hollen going to visit the family of Omar Hernandez, nice kid, good student, loved soccer, raped and murdered by his illegal alien soccer coach who had molested kids in the past but they refused to press charges so of course he got away with it
Ohh yeah. Trump’s fault.
Slaying of 13-year-old boy devastates L.A. immigrant community: ‘We can’t trust anyone’
.......... Especially illegal El Salvadoran perverts.
Oddly, growing up in the Southwest, I don’t recall any of the HS coaches being nationals of any other country except the United States.
Odd.
Salvadoran, eh?
We see why Bukele has CECOT.
San Fernando Valley? I’m so glad I’ll never have to drive through that place again!
They go on about everything else imaginable to hide the simple story of what actually happened.
And of course it’s Trump’s fault.
Proves you can't trust white people, that's for sure. 🤡
IT'S NOT 'ANTI-IMMIGRANT SENTIMENT' IT'S ANTI EFFING ILLEGALS WHO BROKE INTO OUR COUNTRY AFTER PAYING ORGANIZED INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALS TO BRING THEM HERE.
A dope pusher is not a pharmacists.
A thief is NOT a house guest.
An illegal IS NOT an immigrant.
Send them home - they are NOT immigrants, they re criminals who were NOT welcomed, NOT invited, and ARE NOT wanted.
Import Third World
Become Third World
Just raping and killing the male children that Americans won’t rape and kill...
I assumed he was killed by the po-po.
Who they gonna blame? Gotta be traceable to Trump.
That's like saying "to report reported sexual assaults."
Or "to allege alleged sexual assaults."
I remember 1961, our High School coach warning us about “queers.” “And you all know what a queer is!”
Actually in 1961 we just thought they were weirdos as no one had any idea what a homosexual was. On the other hand we knew what a “freak” was.
[snip] well-known coach and Salvadoran national was charged with murder in the killing of 13-year-old soccer player Oscar Omar Hernandez... then dumping the boy’s body in a roadside ditch in Ventura County... has also been charged with sexually assaulting another teen and investigators say there are probably more victims who have yet to come forward... The allegation comes at a time when many families are feeling increasingly vulnerable to anti-immigrant sentiment and threats of deportation by the Trump administration — a factor that could complicate the reporting of other possible crimes. [/snip]
Why, unless they're in the US illegally. And, if the coach had been from any other country -- Venezuela and Haiti for instance -- the TDS BS would be framed differently, and the coach's national origin probably not mentioned at all.
When Cortez landed in Central America, Sodomy was common among the tribes. The Spaniards put an end to it. It’s back…
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