On Thursday, Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin reportedly criticized the Biden-Harris administration for revealing that a man arrested in the commonwealth for allegedly chaining up children inside a residence is a previously deported illegal immigrant.
Franklin Viera Guevara, 29, a 29-year-old native of El Salvador, was apprehended in Fairfax County, Virginia, last month and has been charged with two counts of child neglect, two counts of child maltreatment, and two counts of abduction.
Police reported that they discovered two boys, aged seven and nine, who were chained up inside the residence of Guevara’s fiancée, Wedni Del Cid Rodriguez, who is the boys’ mother. Her age is 47.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) verified that Guevara was deported in 2019 during the Trump administration and subsequently illegally re-entered the United States at an unknown date.
The suspect in the case, an illegal immigrant, is presently being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center without bond.
Officers were purportedly informed by Guevara and his fiancée Rodriguez that they had the children chained up in order to “frighten them” and prevent them from exiting the apartment.
Guevara is also purported to have stated that the couple would abandon the young boys in the apartment, ensnared by chains.
Court documents indicate that one of the boys obtained a phone and transmitted a photograph of his chained ankle to their sister. Subsequently, the sister contacted the authorities.
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