ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Charged with Sexually Assaulting and Murdering a 2-Year-Old Child in Virginia

Department of Homeland Security ^ | July 22, 2026 | Secretary Markwayne Mullin

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Under Governor Abigail Spanberger, Virginia has become a hotbed of illegal alien crime

WASHINGTON – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested an illegal alien who has been charged with murder and aggravated sexual battery in the death of a 2-year-old girl in Virginia.

According to local reporting, the child’s mother took her to the Goochland County Sheriff’s Office on July 4. Deputies began life-saving measures to save the child, who was then taken to a local hospital, where she later died.

The Louisa County Sheriff’s Department arrested Raul Genesis Ortiz Moran, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, as a suspect in the child’s death. After ICE lodged a detainer, Louisa County cooperated with ICE and turned him over to federal custody.

Moran now faces charges of second-degree murder and aggravated sexual battery.

“This monster sexually assaulted and murdered a 2-year-old girl in Virginia,” said Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “Thanks to the cooperation of our local law enforcement partners, this killer is off the streets and will face justice for his crimes. This horrific tragedy was completely avoidable, because this illegal alien should have never been in our country. Governor Spanberger’s sanctuary policies have made Virginia a hotbed for illegal alien crime.”

Moran illegally entered the United States at an unknown date and location.

During her first days in office, Governor Spanberger signed executive orders banning state cooperation with ICE as well as terminating 287(g) state and local agreements.

Under Governor Spanberger, Virginia has become a hotbed of illegal alien crime. Some of the recent illegal alien crimes in the sanctuary state include:

• In June, ICE lodged a detainer for Juan Arevalo Mendez, an illegal alien from El Salvador, after he was arrested for charges of rape and abduction in Fairfax County, Virginia.
• In June, an ICE investigation led to the sentencing of Samuel Flores de Dios, an illegal alien from Mexico, to 30 years in prison on charges of production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
• In June, ICE lodged a detainer for Moises Domingo Rico Rosales, an illegal alien from Nicaragua, after he had been arrested for abduction of person with intent to defile and indecent exposure in Annandale, Virginia.
• In June, ICE lodged a detainer for Jose Nahun Aleman Hernandez, an illegal alien from Mexico, who was charged with molesting a 5-year-old girl in Woodbridge, Virginia.
• In June, ICE lodged a detainer for Cristian Wilfredo Alvarenga Aguilar, an illegal alien charged with carjacking, abduction, assault, and robbery in Herndon, Virginia.
• In May, Aroldo Santos-Velasques, an illegal alien from Guatemala, was sentenced in Loudoun County to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl.
• In May, ICE lodged a detainer for Cristian Romero Saenz-Argueta, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who was arrested in Prince William County, Virginia and charged with raping a girl under the age of 15.
• In May, ICE lodged a detainer for Jorge Enrique Garcia-Rodriguez, an illegal alien from Mexico, who was arrested in Franklin County, Virginia and charged with forcible intercourse with a victim under the age of 13 and SIX counts of possession of child pornography. 
• In May, ICE arrested Eduardo Perez-Legra, an illegal alien from Cuba with prior felony convictions for drug trafficking and cocaine possession, in Newport News, Virginia.
• In May, ICE arrested Walvin Victor Hugo Garcia, an illegal alien from Guatemala, after he was released by sanctuary politicians in Fairfax County despite facing charges of raping a child under the age of 13. 
• In May, ICE arrested Josue Saul Garcia-Lopez, an illegal alien from El Salvador and MS-13 gang member, in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
• In April, Roni Mendez-Escobar, an illegal alien from Guatemala, was arrested by ICE after previously being released by Fairfax County, despite being charged with possession of child porn with intent to distribute. 
• In April, ICE lodged a detainer asking sanctuary politicians in Arlington County to not release Luzvin Orvando Garcia Moran, an illegal alien from Guatemala, after he was arrested for attempted rape.
• In April, Israel Christopher Flores-Ortiz, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, was convicted for NINE counts of assault and battery after he groped multiple underage girls at a high school in Fairfax County. 
• In April, the Fairfax County District Attorney’s Office offered an insane plea deal of just 5 years to two illegal aliens who murdered a man at a park and walking trail in Oakton, Virginia in July of 2024. 
• In April, Misael Lopez Gomez, an illegal alien from Guatemala, was arrested and charged with murder and felony child abuse after bludgeoning his own 3-month-old daughter to death in Fairfax County.
• In March, Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, an illegal alien from Guatemala, was arrested and charged with second degree murder after fatally stabbing a man inside his home in Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia. 
• In February, Abdul Jalloh, an illegal alien from Sierra Leone with more than 30 prior arrests, was charged with murder after fatally stabbing 41-year-old Stephanie Minter at a bus stop in Hybla Valley, Virginia. 

[Sacajaweau]

Thank you ICE. Thank you President Trump.

And you Democrats who think ICE should be shut down and protect people like this in your sanctuary cities....you're just plain sick.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Can't tell what kind of animal that thing is. He looks like various varieties of mud mixed into a toxic monster.

[doc maverick]

Have to start hanging these perps.
It would be a deterrent.

[Steely Tom]

Gee, somehow I never heard about this story.

[CletusVanDamme]

Public executions. Immediately!

[Steely Tom]

El Salvador
Mexico
Nicaragua
Mexico
Cristian Wilfredo Alvarenga Aguilar's country of origin isn't given
Guatemala
El Salvador
Mexico
Cuba
Guatemala
El Salvador
Guatemala
Guatemala
El Salvado
The two murderers who were offered an "insane plea deal" were not identified by country of origin
Guatemala
Guatemala
Sierra Leone

A true sampling of "the Gorgeous Mosaic" of multiculturalism and cultural enrichment.

[gildafarrell]

My heart goes out to this mother. Thank you, ICE. Thank you, President Trump.

[Bullish]

A 2 yr old? This guy must have the IQ of a piece of lettuce and the morals of a chimpanzee.

[Dan Zachary]

“We can’t all be judged by our worst day.” Governor Tim Walz

[piasa]

Toxic monsters that prey on kids usually don’t look any different from anyone else.

The most evil usually look harmless, it’s how they get away with so much.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

They look like toxic monsters. Usually you can tell by cursory inspection. When you live long
enough you develop a lifetime of wisdom akin to "AI training". Your brain is trained on what
monsters look like, year after year, decade after decade, each and every day into new centuries.
With a lifetime of the proper training, your brain develops an infallible sense of who looks evil.

However, I do respect your alternate theory. 👍

[doc maverick]

“Your brain is trained on what monsters look like, year after year, decade after decade, each and every day into new centuries.
With a lifetime of the proper training, your brain develops an infallible sense of who looks evil.”
I agree 100%.
And if you are in tune with the Holy Spirit, you will have a certain intuition that’s only available from God and not AI.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Can't go wrong when guided by the Holy Spirit. Absolutely.

[EinNYC]

My heart goes out to this mother.

Why did the mother take the distressed child to the SHERIFF'S office instead of directly to a hospital? More expert and immediate care may have saved her.

[ConservativeMind]

Perps should have capital punishment at least as onerous as they gave another.

He should be pounded in the butt with increasing in size roughened tree branches, until dead.

[MPJackal]

I guess John Leguizamo is upset ICE arrested this guy. If you don't know, and considering it's Leguizamo, you probably don't, he is in the odyssey and says if you support ICE, don't go see his movies.

[Keyhopper]

Harvest their organs, compost the remains

[55Ford]

So, did the child’s mother know or have some connection to the monster?

[Dan Zachary]

says if you support ICE, don't go see his movies.

My pleasure to fulfill his wish. Done and done.