Illegal Alien rapes nuns

Herald and News ^ | 09/04/02 | Peter Martini

[lobo59]

09/04/02 By PETER MARTINI Email this story to a friend

Maximiliano Cilerio Esparza, left, sits in Klamath County Jail Tuesday while court interpreter Chely Tillson reads a list of 14 charges against him, including aggravated murder. Maximiliano Cilerio Esparza, accused of raping two nuns and strangling one of them to death with her rosary beads last Sunday, was scheduled to appear for a postponed arraignment this afternoon in Klamath County Circuit Court.

Esparza was scheduled to appear Tuesday in front of Judge Richard Rambo, but his arraignment was postponed because an extra day was needed to assign a court-appointed attorney who is trained to defend death penalty cases.

Authorities planned to transport Esparza to the courtroom, rather than use the video link as is done in most arraignments, Klamath County District Attorney Ed Caleb said.

He is charged with 14 crimes, including aggravated murder, murder and rape in connection with the strangling of Sister Helen Chaska and is being held without bail.

Esparza is accused of using rosary beads to restrain Chaska and another nun, who were conducting walking prayers at 2 a.m. Sunday, while raping them and killing Chaska. The rosary beads were found Sister Helen Chaska is shown with her parents, Helen and Lynn Chaska, in this family photo taken several years ago. Her parents are now deceased. embedded in Chaska?s neck.

?We believe he put the rosaries around their necks and squeezed while attacking them,? said Caleb, who decided Tuesday to seek the death penalty in this case. ?The attack took about 30 minutes, at least, and it seemed very methodical.?

According to the California Department of Corrections, Esparza, who is in the United States illegally, was convicted in 1988 of robbery and kidnapping in Los Angeles under the alias of Martin Martinez. He was sentenced to six years in prison, was released in 1992 and was on probation until 1995.

Esparza traveled to Klamath Falls from Portland by train Accused killer Maximiliano Cilerio Esparza is shown at the Klamath County Jail. on Friday. He checked in at the Klamath Falls Gospel Mission and found work repairing bleachers at Lost River High School in Merrill over the weekend.

?Apparently some guy, a Mike Smude, hired this guy to help repair some bleachers,? Caleb said.

Smude rented a room at the Cimarron Motor Inn, and Caleb said he allowed Esparza to sleep on the floor.

The two nuns had set up a stand outside the Albertson?s grocery store at about 10 a.m. Saturday morning and stayed well into the night, store director Robon Evans said.

?They came by in the morning and asked if they could sell some of their dolls here,? Evans said. ?And I always like to help out Little League, the Boy and Girl Scouts and nuns, so I didn?t have a problem with it. They said they had sold the stuff here before and did very well.?

[lobo59]

The guy had previous convictions and prison time in Los Angeles. So why is he still in the US? Does serving prison time here impart some sort of residency status?

It is also time to look into how and why he was hired. Most legitimate contractors try to follow legal hiring practices. Did the school just grab the cheapest fly by night operator without any consideration of reputation and ability to perform the work?

[Burkeman1]

Those are undocumented residents! Let's get our terms straight.

[Paleo Conservative]

We should emasculate these punks, then put them in the general population of a maximum security prison. When they finish their prison terms, they should be deported.

[Tacis]

Every one who has been employed by a reputable company in the last 15+ years has had to complete a form I-9, a silly form that "ptoves" that you are legal to work in the US. Yet, so far as I know, not one employer has ever been fined for employing illegals. This is another case of the feds refusing to do what they are supposed to do; penalize those who hire illegals so severely that they and others will not again hire illegals.

This nun killer must, of course, be released immediately because, as a Mexican national, the Mexican government wasn't contacted and Fox wasn't able to send one of his drug lords to help.

When are we going to start treating these criminals like criminals? They won't buy the required auto insurance, they disregard our laws at every turn, they suck the benefits that tax payers sweat to pay for, and some of them kill when they feel like it.

Will it take a couple of nukes smuggled in with the annual 200 tons of dope and 800,000 illegal criminals to force the feds to secure our border? It will be too late then. SEAL THE F***ING BORDER NOW!!!!!

[3AngelaD]

"He was sentenced to six years in prison, was released in 1992 and was on probation until 1995."

He should have been deported upon release, that is, INS should have picked him up when he was released from the state facility and deported him. But remember this was in California, where apparently instead of deporting illegal alien felons, they award them drivers licenses and a map of the West Coast.

It is my understanding that the INS is being more conscientious about intercepting and deporting alien felons who are about to be released, finally getting around to putting the 1996 immigration law provision regarding their automatic deportation into practice (I think one of the circuit appellate courts recently ruled that instead of automatic deportation, they are entitled to another round of endless hearings, unless their crime was selling cigarettes to a minor, in which case they are to be executed on the spot). But I digress. There is a bill moving through Congress that would allow convicted felons who are legal aliens (visitors, students, etc.) to stay in our country. Under the provisions of the law under consideration (thank you Senators Leahy and Kennedy, and Chairman Sensenbrenner and Rep. Berman), it is more than likely that the 9/11 highjackers could have stayed indefinitely -- had they survived.

[Lance Romance]

Careful now or Junior will come along and call all of you racists.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

Quienes "Junior?" There's a handful that fit the bill of "RACIST!" nag.

[SEA]

There is a bill moving through Congress that would allow convicted felons who are legal aliens (visitors, students, etc.) to stay in our country. Under the provisions of the law under consideration (thank you Senators Leahy and Kennedy, and Chairman Sensenbrenner and Rep. Berman), it is more than likely that the 9/11 highjackers could have stayed indefinitely -- had they survived.

And this is during a time when "Homeland Security" is such a priority. Correct me if I am wrong, but there were no Patriots, no Right-Wingers, no Homeschoolers, no 2nd Amendment advocates, no Christians, involved in the worst terrorist attack against America--only aliens we let in and left undisturbed.

[Texas_Jarhead]

I was wondering is the perp was an illegal. I read 4 or 5 news stories on the topic but it was never mentioned.

[flamefront]

ping

[Sabertooth]

He was only here to rape the nuns Americans don't want to rape.

[Sabertooth]

As ugly as this crime is, posting guidlines tell us to use the original headline. We can make headline comments parenthetically.

Rosary beads used in strangulation

09/04/02
By PETER MARTINI
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Maximiliano Cilerio Esparza, accused of raping two nuns and strangling one of them to death with her rosary beads last Sunday, was scheduled to appear for a postponed arraignment this afternoon in Klamath County Circuit Court.

Esparza was scheduled to appear Tuesday in front of Judge Richard Rambo, but his arraignment was postponed because an extra day was needed to assign a court-appointed attorney who is trained to defend death penalty cases.

Authorities planned to transport Esparza to the courtroom, rather than use the video link as is done in most arraignments, Klamath County District Attorney Ed Caleb said.

He is charged with 14 crimes, including aggravated murder, murder and rape in connection with the strangling of Sister Helen Chaska and is being held without bail.

Esparza is accused of using rosary beads to restrain Chaska and another nun, who were conducting walking prayers at 2 a.m. Sunday, while raping them and killing Chaska. The rosary beads were found

embedded in Chaska’s neck.

"We believe he put the rosaries around their necks and squeezed while attacking them," said Caleb, who decided Tuesday to seek the death penalty in this case. "The attack took about 30 minutes, at least, and it seemed very methodical."

According to the California Department of Corrections, Esparza, who is in the United States illegally, was convicted in 1988 of robbery and kidnapping in Los Angeles under the alias of Martin Martinez. He was sentenced to six years in prison, was released in 1992 and was on probation until 1995.

Esparza traveled to Klamath Falls from Portland by train

on Friday. He checked in at the Klamath Falls Gospel Mission and found work repairing bleachers at Lost River High School in Merrill over the weekend.

"Apparently some guy, a Mike Smude, hired this guy to help repair some bleachers," Caleb said.

Smude rented a room at the Cimarron Motor Inn, and Caleb said he allowed Esparza to sleep on the floor.

The two nuns had set up a stand outside the Albertson’s grocery store at about 10 a.m. Saturday morning and stayed well into the night, store director Robon Evans said.

"They came by in the morning and asked if they could sell some of their dolls here," Evans said. "And I always like to help out Little League, the Boy and Girl Scouts and nuns, so I didn’t have a problem with it. They said they had sold the stuff here before and did very well."

The women were members of the Orthodox Catholic Church, and were selling missionary items for the church. They lived in Bellevue, Wash.

The Orthodox Catholic Church is little-known religious entity unaffiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.

"Orthodox Catholicism is separate from the Roman Catholic Church, but does share many of the same religious beliefs and practices," said Father James Connelly, history professor at the University of Portland, a Roman Catholic school. "They broke away from the church after the Vatican II in 1962 to 1965. They don’t recognize the authority of the pope or the decisions of the counsel. They oppose mass in the vernacular language and oppose marriage between faiths."

Helen Chaska grew up in Beach, N.D. with her parents, four sisters and five brothers. She was the oldest child and had to act as a parent during much of her teenage years, her brother James Chaska said.

"Mom had migraine headaches and Dad was a truck driver and out of town much of the time," James Chaska, who now lives in Bismarck, N.D., said. "She was the one raising us most of the time, and I know that put a lot of stress on her. At the same time, she was trying to succeed in school."

Their mother was raised strict Roman Catholic, but their father didn’t accept Catholicism.

"My father forbade us to go to church while we were growing up," said James Chaska, who isn’t with an organized religion. "Most of my brothers and sisters are Catholic now. They used to sneak into church here and there while growing up."

Helen Chaska went to college at Dixon State University. She then worked as a secretary for a reform school for boys.

"She did that because she cared about people and wanted to help people," James Chaska said. "I believe that’s also why she went off to California — to help people."

He said Helen Chaska became a nun about 20 years ago and began traveling and doing missionary work full-time.

"We only talked to her like twice since she became a nun," James Chaska said. "That was because she was traveling all the time."

Helen Chaska’s sister, Melanie Korczak of Pullman, N.D., said her lack of communication with Helen was because of the church.

"Her order wouldn’t allow us to talk to her at all," Melanie Korczak said. "They wouldn’t even let her come to our parents’ funerals."

A woman who contacted the Herald and News by e-mail said she knew the two nuns while she was in the same order.

"I know them personally. I was in the convent with them many years ago," wrote Rosemarie Offenhauer, who said her name in the order was Sister Mary Celine.

"These nuns belong to a group led by a man named Francis K. Schuckhardt. Unfortunately, Schuckhardt is a cult leader who keeps people in his group by convincing them that he is sent from God, that he is the only true Catholic bishop left in the world and that if you don’t belong to his group you are damned."

Offenhauer said her mother joined the same order about nine years ago.

"My Mom disappeared nine years ago — my Dad loves her dearly and has never been able to talk or see her from the day that he found a note on the table saying she was leaving to join Schuckhardt’s group," Offenhauer said. "My family has been praying and waiting for my Mom to come home, but we have no way to contact her in this group since all mail and phone calls are censored."

Melanie Korczak said she and her four sisters were very close until Helen Chaska left for the order.

"We were a very tightly knit group, the five sisters," Korczak said. "But all that changed because of the religious group she was with."

Reporter Peter Martini covers public safety and courts. He can be reached at 885-4425, (800) 275-0982 or by e-mail at pmartini@heraldandnews.com.

[Dante3]

Anotehr reason why we need to protect our borders and immediately deport all illegals.

[Tancredo Fan]

This vile creature is not only an illegal with a long criminal record, but he has been deported back to Mexico at least once (which is why the military should be on the border and illegals rounded up and deported without even a short hearing). I wonder if that meddling Mexican leader will start screaming when the jury orders this creep whacked? If he's convicted, you can bet that's what the penalty will be.

[dennisw]

 

Will these illegal aliens even be deported? No mention of that. (I'm sure a few are here legally)

 

 

http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=1494

85 airport workers charged in crackdown on ID fraud
About 85 Southern California airport workers, including those at John Wayne Airport, were charged Thursday with fraudulent use of Social Security numbers in federal court in Santa Ana and Los Angeles.

From staff and wire reports

About 85 Southern California airport workers accused of using fake identification were charged Thursday with fraudulent use of Social Security numbers.

Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, said the majority of the workers have been offered deals that would spare them jail time. About 10 people can plead guilty to misdemeanor charges instead of felony charges, and 68 can plead guilty to one of two felony charges, Mrozek said.

Forty-six of the people facing charges worked at John Wayne Airport.

The investigation, dubbed "Operation Tarmac,'' began in January, when the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Social Security Administration and the Department of Transportation gathered information about airport employees.

John Wayne Airport provided data about all workers with airport employee badges. Indictments were handed down last month and arrest warrants issued.

The crackdown took place at Los Angeles International, Ontario, Long Beach and John Wayne airports.

The crackdown was criticized by immigrant-rights groups, who said the action unfairly targeted low-income and minority workers.

[Melas]

I wonder if that meddling Mexican leader will start screaming when the jury orders this creep whacked? If he's convicted, you can bet that's what the penalty will be.

He might get the death penalty, but his chances of being executed in Oregon are slim to none. Oregon has only executed 2 individuals since 1962, and both of those refused their appeals.

If this happened in Texas, he'd die, but Oregon isn't Texas.

[Tancredo Fan]

Will these illegal aliens even be deported? No mention of that. (I'm sure a few are here legally)

I'll bet the majority are here illegally. Santa Ana is a disgrace, and that's where John Wayne airport is. Tijuana has fewer Mexican nationals. I doubt if any of these criminals will be deported... or locked up, either.

Did you see that sorry thing on ABC-TV last night at 10PM Pacific time with Peter Jennings? What a joke! They were covering illegals who have flooded into Utah, and the dozens of illegals who were busted working using phony docs at Salt Lake International Airport before the Olympics. That was an hour-long so story. These sniveling criminals were going on and on about their numerous U.S. citizen anchor babies, that joke of a mayor Rock Anderson is on the side of the criminals, the INS is dragging it's feet on booting these scofflaws, and that weasel Jennings mentions that Utah used to be a part of Mexico toward the end of the show (as if that means anything). Jennings ought to be kicked back into Canada, and those illegals should have been in cuffs and headed out of here the very day they were arrested.

[lobo59]

This looks like more of the same sort of problem to me.


Police: Ambush suspect had been spurned at bar
Four women slain in hail of gunfire

September 6, 2002 Posted: 4:51 AM EDT (0851 GMT)
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DONNA, Texas (AP) -- Police were searching for three possible suspects in a bloody ambush on six women who were driving home from a local nightclub. Four of the women died in the attack.

Hidalgo County deputies described the early Thursday shootings as "revenge/rage" oriented, saying the primary suspect was a man who, according to witnesses, told the women in Spanish they would "pay for" their decision not to leave Garcia's Place nightclub with him.

Two friends of the man who were at the bar also are considered suspects, authorities said.

Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department spokesman Capt. Roy Quintanilha said the four women "were killed in the most gruesome manner imaginable," shot with one or more semiautomatic pistols or assault-type rifles. More than 50 rifle and bullet casings were recovered at the scene.

Police said the women were attacked as their car pulled up to their trailer home. Four of the women died, and a fifth woman was in stable condition at Valley Baptist Medical Center.

A sixth woman was apparently shielded by one of the victims who had collapsed on top of her, hiding until dawn before turning herself over to investigators.

Their names were not released pending notification of family.

Neighbor Celia Silva, 30, said the women were apparently paid for each drink they got patrons to drink. Bar owner Felix Garcia denied the women worked for him, saying they had been showing up recently at the bar, according to a story in Friday's Valley Morning Star.

Two of the women had recently moved into the trailer. At least one had children in Mexico, Silva said.

Silva said the shooting went on for at least a minute, punctuated by pauses she imagined were for reloading the weapon. "You could tell they wanted to make sure they were dead," she said.

Donna is about 15 miles north of the Mexican border, and 40 miles west of Brownsville.

[dennisw]

Yep... I happened to see that disgusting/ pro-Mexican/ illegal immigration/ propaganda piece by Peter Jennings

[Tancredo Fan]

That was one of the most smarmy anti-American propaganda pieces I've seen in a long time. Repulsive to the core.