[LucyT]

*** Mollie Tibbetts's mother took in child of Mexican immigrants after murder suspect's arrest

FYI. Mollie Tibbitts was murdered by this child's father.

[easternsky]

This Hurts my Heart

[NEMDF]

Are you sure? It looks like this “child” she took in, is/was 17. I thought the alleged killer was just in his 20’s.

[RWGinger]

To be clear this illegal Mollie’s mother took in is the son of an illegal couple who were friends with the killer
.This illegal couple fled after the murderer was arrested.
Why the 17 y o did not go with his parents is strange.

She will regret this. How stupid
and I hope we do not end up giving this illegal welfare

[bgill]

Ok, have to comment. The house has 4 bedrooms - Mom's, the oldest brother Jake's (in college but was still living at home at the time of the murder), Mollie's, and youngest brother Scott's (this year's HS homecoming king but no mention of houseguest at that time). Mollie had moved into bf's house but still stayed some at home. I really don't want to guess which room is now Felix's.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6536085/Mollie-Tibbetts-mom-taken-illegal-immigrant-teen.html not long after her 20-year-old daughter was found stabbed to death in a cornfield outside Brooklyn, Iowa, in August 2018, Laura Calderwood welcomed into her home 17-year-old Ulises Felix. He is an undocumented immigrant whose family had worked on the Yarrabee Dairy Farm alongside Mollie's suspected killer, 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera.

Following Rivera's arrest on murder charges in August, Felix's parents fled to Illinois to escape the outpouring of anti-immigrant vitriol, leaving their teenage son behind so he could finish high school.

Mollie's younger brother, Scott, who attended the same school as Felix and was friends with the teen, immediately said he could stay in his mother's spare bedroom.

After briefly grappling with the decision, Calderwood, 55, concluded that her late daughter, who in life was welcoming to all and supportive of the rights of immigrants, would have wanted her to help Felix.

Over the course of the last few months, Calderwood has learned that her young houseguest's ties to Rivera were closer than first thought: Felix's female cousin was the mother of the 24-year-old suspected killer's young daughter.

Felix also revealed to Calderwood that both of Rivera's parents were in Mexico, and that before the arrest, Felix's mother had taken it upon herself to look after him and feed him every night, since he had almost no other family in Iowa.

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FYI. Mollie Tibbitts was murdered by this child's father.

The killer was 24, so he couldn't be the 17-year-old's father, but the 17-year-old's parents knew the killer and left town after he was arrested.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

She was murdered by an associate of the child’s father. The child’s father helped raise the murderer, however.