Hard to ignore the rape with all the 24/7 coverage. Update to this previous story.
Via KTVQ:
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer linked a recent rape case involving undocumented immigrants to federal immigration policy during a press conference Tuesday.
Police in Rockville, Md., arrested and charged Jose O. Montano, 17, and Henry E. Sanchez Milian, 18, after they reportedly raped a freshmen girl in a restroom at one of the Montgomery County public schools last Thursday.
The girl told police that while she was walking in the hallway toward the gym, the two boys pulled her into the boy’s bathroom and eventually into a stall, where they took turns raping her.
She reported the crime to school staff.
Officials confirmed on Friday both boys entered the country illegally about seven months ago from Central America.
Sanchez had an active “alien removal case” pending in the federal judicial system.
Spicer said this underscores why President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration is necessary.
Superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools Dr. Jack Smith said during a Tuesday afternoon news conference that he is deeply grieved by what happened, but that he does not want to politicize the issue.
“This is not an issue that we’re going to move to the political level, although a lot of people want to do it. The fact is, these students were not in the same class, but many students between the 9th and 12th grades are in the same classes, in the same band class, in the same world language class, same play after school,” said Dr. Smith.
The age of the student-suspects has also been a big question.
Sanchez was 18 but was classified as a freshmen.
Maryland law states that students as old as 21 can get free public education in the state.
“The victim is in the 9th grade, I don’t know the grade level of the young men, because they just entered our school last fall, and I expect they came with no credits, so that would technically make them freshmen, 9th graders, they were students in an English learner program,” Dr. Smith said.