An 18-year-old unlawful immigrant from El Salvador allegedly groped 12 feminine classmates at a Virginia highschool — and was allowed into the US beneath the Biden administration.
Israel Flores Ortiz, who is nearly 19 however a junior at Fairfax Excessive College, has been charged with 9 counts of assault and battery after he was accused of repeatedly creeping up behind the scholars in crowded hallways and grabbing them between the legs.
Ortiz, who entered the nation illegally in 2024, was launched beneath a federal authorities coverage throughout the Biden administration, based on native outlet 7News.
The teenager appeared in courtroom on Friday after his arrest on March 7, the place prosecutors alleged that the incidents passed off inside the varsity — positioned 20 miles exterior of Washington, DC — as college students have been altering lessons.
Mother and father declare that Ortiz’s disturbing conduct had been occurring for months.
“There’s a gaggle of about 12 people which have reported this assault,” the mom of 1 alleged sufferer mentioned. “He simply sneakily walked up behind them and put his hand in between their legs.”
The father or mother careworn the encounters went far past horseplay.
“It was not only a butt smack or a butt seize,” she mentioned. “It was a groping of a non-public space. It had been occurring for a number of months.”
Police listed Feb. 25 because the official offense date, however mother and father say college students had complained about related incidents lengthy earlier than that.
Households additionally blasted college officers, accusing Fairfax County Public Colleges of downplaying the state of affairs.
Principal Georgina Aye despatched a letter to folks on March 12 informing them of a pupil’s arrest for “inappropriately touching different college students” and described the incidents because the suspect “touching college students’ buttocks whereas they have been transitioning within the hallways.”
Mother and father mentioned the wording minimized the allegations and solely got here after households demanded an evidence.
“[The county] tried to decrease what occurred to those ladies,” one father or mother mentioned, calling the district’s response “abysmal.”
In an announcement to 7News, Fairfax County Public Colleges mentioned: “Whereas Fairfax County Public Colleges (FCPS) is unable to touch upon specifics as a result of federal and state privateness legal guidelines, we prioritize pupil and workers security and we absolutely examine any time somebody shares that an incident has occurred in school, or that they don’t really feel secure in school.
“We’re grateful to our legislation enforcement companions who proceed to work swiftly and totally when there are security considerations in our colleges. The security of all FCPS college students and workers stays a prime precedence.”
In the meantime, a Fairfax County choose denied Ortiz bail this week — regardless that prosecutors didn’t oppose his launch — after reviewing surveillance video and figuring out the proposed circumstances didn’t adequately shield the general public.
ICE lodged a detainer in search of custody of Ortiz for deportation, however the company mentioned the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Workplace didn’t honor it.
“Sadly, sanctuary politicians like Gov. (Abigail) Spanberger are outlawing cooperation with ICE and selecting to RELEASE prison unlawful aliens from their jails again onto their communities to create extra American victims,” an ICE spokesperson mentioned.
“We’re calling on Fairfax County to honor our detainer to make sure this violent prison is faraway from our nation so he can by no means declare one other sufferer once more.”
Ortiz’s costs — misdemeanor assault and battery, not sexual assault — carry a most penalty of 1 yr in jail.
