{"id":2273379,"date":"2024-06-21T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigrant-in-iowa-pleads-guilty-to-sexually-assaulting-12-year-old-girl\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T14:26:35","slug":"illegal-immigrant-in-iowa-pleads-guilty-to-sexually-assaulting-12-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigrant-in-iowa-pleads-guilty-to-sexually-assaulting-12-year-old-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Undocumented immigrant in Iowa admits to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillegal-immigrant-in-iowa-pleads-guilty-to-sexually-assaulting-12-year-old-girl%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2273379&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An \u2064illegal immigrant from Honduras, \u2062Junior Manuel \u2063Dubon\u2062 Benitez, aged 18, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting\u2062 a 12-year-old girl in Iowa. Dubon Benitez had entered the United States illegally near Hidalgo, Texas, in \u200dApril 2022, at the age\u2064 of 16, and was arrested in February following the incident in Waterloo, Iowa.\u200b This case has been highlighted \u2062as an instance of\u200b &#8220;Biden migrant crime,&#8221; \u200da term former President \u2064Donald Trump used to describe crimes committed by immigrants allowed\u2063 to remain in\u200b the country during \u2064the current\u200c administration&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">border crisis<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE \u2014<\/strong> An illegal immigrant from <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/honduras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Honduras\">Honduras<\/a> who was released into the United States after coming across the southern border during the Biden administration has pleaded guilty in <a href=\"https:\/\/WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM\/tag\/iowa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Iowa<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM\/tag\/sexual-assault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>sexual assault<\/a> of a 12-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Manuel Dubon Benitez, 18, was arrested on Feb. 14 on suspicion of \u201csexual abuse upon Jane Doe a 12 year old child\u201d at a residence in Waterloo, Iowa, days earlier, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-bureau-of-land-management-nominee-tracy-stone-manning-was-involved-in-eco-terrorism-case-resulted-in-college-roommates-conviction-prison-sentence-court-records-show\/\" title=\"Biden Bureau Of Land Management Nominee Tracy Stone-Manning Was Involved In \u2018Eco-Terrorism\u2019 Case, Resulted In College Roommate\u2019s Conviction, Prison Sentence, Court Records Show\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boeing-agrees-to-2-5b-settlement-over-737-max-crashes\/\" title=\"Boeing agrees to .5B settlement over 737 MAX crashes\">court documents<\/a> obtained<\/a> first by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that Dubon Benitez was a citizen of Honduras who illegally entered the U.S. near Hidalgo, Texas, in April 2022 as a 16-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>The case is the latest example of what former President Donald Trump has termed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2896723\/trump-blames-biden-laken-riley-murder-texas-border-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Biden migrant crime<\/a>,\u201d used to describe crimes committed by immigrants who were released into the country after entering illegally amid the Biden-era border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3007611\/border-officials-encounter-10-million-migrants-under-biden-september-green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>10 million<\/a> non-U.S. citizens have been encountered by federal law enforcement attempting to enter the country in the more than 40 months since President Joe Biden took office \u2014 more than any other period in history.<\/p>\n<p>Dubon Benitez was charged with second<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-teacher-and-track-field-coach-arrested-on-sexual-abuse-incest-charges\/\" title=\"Oregon Teacher and Track &#038; Field Coach Arrested on Sexual Abuse, Incest Charges\">-degree sexual abuse<\/a> but accepted a plea deal for third-degree sexual abuse, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-kissed-and-touched-for-a-few-minutes-more-than-two-years-later-she-accused-him-of-sexual-assault\/\" title=\"They Kissed And Touched For A Few Minutes. More Than Two Years Later, She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault.\">court documents reviewed<\/a> by the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty in Iowa District Court for Black Hawk County on May 14. The final judgment was entered into the record on June 7.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Melissa\u00a0Anderson-Seeber will sentence Dubon Benitez in the coming weeks. He faces up to 10 years in state prison.<\/p>\n<p>Dubon Benitez is being held by the Iowa Department of Corrections until sentencing. ICE has lodged a detainer with the state, a request that Dubon Benitez not be released after serving his sentence but immediately turned over to the federal agency to begin deportation proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>ICE did not disclose if Dubon Benitez arrived with a parent or as an unaccompanied minor who was placed with an adult in the U.S. by the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>His connection to the victim, whose identity is protected due to the victim\u2019s age, was not described in the court records. The county attorney declined to provide additional information beyond what was obtained in the court documents.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"HTTPS:\/\/WWW.WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, New York police arrested a 25-year-old man from Ecuador in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in the middle of the day at a park in Queens.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, is believed to have approached a boy and girl at the park and attacked the girl while wielding a machete.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An undocumented Honduran immigrant, released into the U.S. during the Biden administration, pleaded guilty in Iowa to sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. 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