A sheriff in Palm Beach County, Florida, is pointing fingers at the Biden administration for its failure to address the border crisis following an alleged sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl by a 20-year-old illegal immigrant. Marvin Dionel Perez Lopez, a Guatemalan national, is accused of the crime. He was reportedly released by Border Patrol agents into the United States despite entering the country illegally from Mexico.

Sheriff Ric Bradshaw slammed the Biden administration’s lax border policies, intimating that they led to the crime. Perez Lopez was arrested for assaulting the girl after her mother caught him in the act.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's (PBSO) arrest report says Marvin Dionel Perez Lopez grabbed the 11-year-old by the hand and forced her into his van where he began assaulting her.

When the child's mother went looking for the girl, she spotted the van not far from their apartment building where the victim and Lopez both lived. The mother spotted them inside and began banging on the van door and shouting.

According to sheriff's deputies, Lopez jumped out of the van and ran away. After the incident, the victim's mother went to Lopez's apartment, where his brother was home. The brother called Lopez and told him to come home.

The mother waited to confront him. Lopez pleaded with her for forgiveness, but there was no way she could, the mother reportedly said to deputies. Then she called the police.

Investigators interviewed the victim, and she told them Lopez had forced himself on her after she repeatedly resisted his advances. She even tried to leave the van, but he pulled her back in. It escalated until Lopez allegedly raped her.

On May 3, PBSO deputies arrived at the apartment to speak with Lopez. As the deputies knocked on the door, they noticed Lopez climbing out a back window and started running, fleeing into an alleyway. After multiple deputies and a K-9 unit searched the van for Lopez, they interviewed his brother, who said that Lopez ran because of what happened with the girl next door.

Bradshaw lashed out at the White House, saying, “Here’s a Guatemalan, who came into the country illegally, was stopped by [Border Patrol], released, and made his way to South Florida. And now he commits a crime where he held an 11-year-old girl against her will and sexually assaulted her.”

The sheriff noted that Lopez “confessed to the crime” and that “The federal government is victimizing people who live in this country by letting these people in here.”

Nicole Bishop from Palm Beach County Victim Services noted that these incidents happen far too often, saying that “Sexual assault is far more prevalent in our community than we would like to believe.”

This episode is part of a broader debate on the impact of illegal immigration, specifically the ongoing border crisis that started shortly after President Joe Biden took office. These incidents bolster the arguments of those calling for the White House to more strictly enforce immigration laws and beef up security at the southern border.

Last month, Border Patrol reported a disturbing increase in the number of convicted sex offenders arrested while trying to cross the border illegally.

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