New York's laws on illegal immigration are beyond ridicule; their "sanctuary" policies have resulted in far too many criminals evading any serious jail time, not to mention deportation.
Now, though, one New York prosecutor has had enough. He was determined that one particular accused child abuser was not going to skate away, and the prosecutor sidestepped those "sanctuary" laws to work with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep the goblin locked up before his trial.
A suspected child rapist from Guatemala who could have been released without bail under New York law was instead sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in a move that skirted the state's sanctuary policies while keeping him off the streets for months before prosecutors secured an indictment, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.
"Two progressive reforms...had to be navigated deftly to hold the defendant responsible for his alleged horrific crimes," District Attorney Ray Tierney said in a statement.
Due to the state's controversial policies, prosecutors weren't even allowed to ask the judge to set cash bail or bond on the initial charge of endangering the welfare of a child, according to the DA's office.
And because of the state's 2020 "Protect Our Courts Act," ICE agents could be subject to prosecution if they arrested the suspect at the courthouse following his no-bail release.
So, DA Tierney and ICE found a workaround.
Tierney's office and the Suffolk County Police Department found a loophole. They released Reynoso with only a desk appearance ticket, rather than bringing him to court — and that allowed them to coordinate his immediate arrest by ICE for allegedly entering the U.S. illegally.
He was in ICE custody for 11 days while DNA testing was underway. When the results came in, they showed a match between Reynoso and samples collected from the 5-year-old victim, according to Tierney's office.
It would be more than a month before his March 23 arraignment on five charges, including three felonies: sexual assault of a child, first-degree rape and first-degree sex abuse.
He remained in ICE custody the whole time.
Well done! The accused, one Carlos Aguilar Reynoso, a 27-year-old Guatemalan national, reportedly in the United States illegally, was supposed to be babysitting the child he is accused of attacking, making the crime even more egregious, since he was placed in some position of trust by the child's family. And if the proponents of sanctuary policies had their way, Reynoso may well have been put back out on the streets to do it again, and again, and again.
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Were it not for the courage of a prosecutor willing to sidestep the jurisdiction's idiotic sanctuary policies, this tale could have ended horribly. These kinds of goblins do tend to escalate. And we have seen too many cases where a thug or sex offender is rotated in and out, in and out, 10, 20, 30 times with no serious penalties and certainly no deportation.
Not this time. And now we have the pattern; any other District Attorneys can now follow Tierney's example.
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