A Honduran man faces rape fees after allegedly assaulting a girl on a well-liked climbing path in Virginia, US. Police mentioned that that is the primary stranger rape within the city in over a decade.
Denis Humberto Navarette Romero, 31, has been arrested and charged with intent to defile and rape. The sufferer, who didn’t know Romero, was attacked on the busy Washington and Previous Dominion Path when he allegedly grabbed her arm, compelled her to the bottom, and assaulted her, in response to a New York Put up report citing police.
Herndon Police chief Maggie DeBoard mentioned in a press convention, as quoted by New York Put up, “That is the one stranger rape we’ve had within the city in my greater than 12 years as chief of police.”
Earlier than being arrested on rape fees, Romero, initially from Honduras, a rustic in Central America, was launched from jail on November 14 after serving half of a 50-day sentence for indecent publicity.
Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin criticised the discharge of Romero, who’s within the US illegally. He informed The Put up, “I’m heartsick for this sufferer and outraged that native Fairfax County officers recklessly launched violent unlawful immigrants who ought to have been prosecuted and deported.”
Youngkin added, “It is a dereliction of their most simple responsibility to maintain folks protected. Prioritizing violent unlawful immigrants over the protection of Fairfax residents is unacceptable,” stressing that Virginia shouldn’t be a sanctuary state.
