A horrifying report reveals the effect illegal immigration is having on Baltimore County in Maryland.
Fox45 conducted an investigation last week that revealed a significant number of the people charged with child sex crimes in Baltimore County. Even worse is a clear disparity in how these criminals are sentenced.
“Public records show that Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger’s office filed 99 child sex crime cases between January 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024. Nearly 10% of the child sex cases in Baltimore County, involving nine defendants over a 17-month period, involved illegal immigrants from Central American countries,” read the report.
SHOCKING: In Democrat-run Baltimore, 10% of those charged with child sex offenses are ILLEGAL ALIENS — many of whom are subsequently given light punishments from liberal judges. pic.twitter.com/7HZIHvysel
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 26, 2024
Nearly all of the defendants were reportedly “in violation of parole when they were living in Maryland.”
Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Robert Cahill was responsible for sentencing Arles Efrain Avila, Luis Portillo-Henriquez, and Jose Mejia in three separate cases.
According to the report, Efrain Avila had been “repeatedly arrested by ICE and deported to Honduras over 18 years” and was once again taken into custody in January 2023 on multiple counts of child sex crimes. Judge Cahil “accepted and imposed a five-year probation sentence for his alleged sex crimes, according to court records.” Records also indicate he has since been deported back to Honduras in 2024, but there’s no telling if he will stay there this time. Given his history, that seems unlikely.
After multiple arrests for driving under the influence, Portillo-Henriquez would later be found guilty of “raping a 14-year-old juvenile that was living in his Baltimore County house. Court records show the incidents happened for months when the girl’s mother was not at home.” Judge Cahill gave him “25 years in prison, but reduced the sentence to only 18 months,” and he is currently in ICE custody awaiting deportation proceedings.
It is unclear how Mejia entered the United States illegally, but he was arrested in Baltimore County in June 2023 on multiple child sex crime charges. “Judge Cahill sentenced Mejia to five years of supervised probation, dismissing several counts. Mejia’s immigration records show he remains in the country,” Fox45 reports.
Miguel Flores-Avalos was also arrested for the same kind of crime in December 2023. He was ultimately sentenced to 25 years in prison, but Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Keith Truffer “suspended all but 18 months of his term” according to the report.
Upon further investigation of the numbers, Fox45 found that African-Americans convicted of similar crimes received much harsher sentences from Baltimore County judges.
In three similar cases to illegal immigrants, Black defendants received prison time of four years or more. Court records indicate that two out of 11 closed cases involving Black defendants resulted in sentences of 12 years or more in prison.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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