JOLIET – While attention was focused on the tragic death of Iowa jogger Mollie Tibbetts this week, an illegal alien that should have been deported six years ago was sentenced to 80 years for raping three Joliet area women joggers.
The attacker confessed to raping three women at various times between 2014 and 2015 as they ran alongside Joliet's I & M Canal. He tied up his victims, threatened using a knife on them, and then left the victims to the elements after the attacks.
Local news sources report the attacker identified himself as Miguel C. Luna, but had several other aliases, including Francisco, Pedro Flores and Enrique Zanchez. Luna’s attorney Marzell Richardson wasn't even sure of the man's name. He said he believed Luna’s name might be Miguel Luna Castaneda.
The uncertainty frustrated the Will County judge overseeing the sentencing.
The uncertainty of the attacker's identity posed a problem for Will County Judge Dave Carlson, since he pleaded guilty under the name Miguel C. Luna.
“I want to know who that person is. I want to know this person who pleaded guilty to this charge,” Carlson said.
Carlson noted that Luna was a fugitive wanted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and that he should have been deported from the U.S. in 2012. He read off Luna’s ICE fugitive number in court.
“Miguel Luna is in this country illegally. This ruthlessly violent sexual predator should never have had the opportunity to brutally prey upon these innocent young women,” Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow said in a news release.
Glasgow said Luna “terrorized our community by repeatedly committing the most vicious sexual assaults against unsuspecting women in an historic area that people from throughout the region safely enjoy for recreation.”
Fox News reported Glasgow's comments to Luna:
“You were free to do these acts…whether through misguided political correctness or people who do not believe in laws or borders,” Carlson said. “One thing I can do with the sentence is show that the laws we believe in here, maybe this won’t happen again, maybe that’s a little bit of closure.”
HEY CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS, THESE THREE RAPES ARE ON YOUR ON YOUR HEADS. YOUR CONTINUOUS OPPOSITION TO EFFORTS TO SECURE BORDER ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN. YOU ALLOWED THIS PREDATOR INTO THE COUNTRY…. YOU SCUMBAGS OWE THESE GIRLS AND ALL AMERICANS AN APOLOGY FOR YOUR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE US CONSTITUTION AND PROTECT THE STATES FROM INVASION. AND FOR IGNORING THE IMMIGRATION LAWS ON THE BOOKS. YOUR WILLFUL VIOLATION OF THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND QUALIFIES AS HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. YOUR MISUSE OF POWER AND FAILURE TO HONOR YOUR OATH OF OFFICE, WHERE YOU SWORE TO UPHOLD THE us CONSTITUTION IS GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT.
YES I KNOW PARTISAN POLITICS WILL PROTECT YOU, I KNOW THE MAJORITY OF THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOT HONORABLE AND WILL COVER UP FOR EACH OTHER.
JOHN ADAMS WAS CORRECT WHEN HE SAID:
“We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
PARTISAN POLITICS IS IMMORALITY…. AND IT IS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.
This won’t get much MSM attention.
Not part of their agenda.
PARTISAN POLITICS IS IMMORALITY…. AND IT IS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.
Yes it will!
Don’t kid yourself, the blood of the American victims of illegal alien criminals can be equally placed on the hands of leftist-Democrats and, so-called conservative Republicans.
When contacted by the Illinois grassroots group calling for immigration control in 1994, only 2 members of the 22 member IL Congressional delegation endorsed it — Republican Phil Crane and Democrat Bill Lipinski.
All the other 10 Republicans were afraid of being called, “racists” and begged off.
Conservative spokesman, Dan Proft, was pro-immigration back then — a position that he was for, before he miraculously became against it (15 years later.)
Libertarian/conservative IL State Rep. Cal Skinner refused to lend his voice to the immigration control effort back then because, “there are a lot of Mexican restaurants opening up in my district.”
After he lost that seat a few years later (when he no longer had the power to do anything about it) he became a strident on-line advocate for immigration control.
Republican US Senator Peter Fitzgerald actually said on Chicago radio, back then, that illegal aliens were good, in that they worked (presumably under false Social Security numbers) and paid into an SS system, from which they could never collect – thereby helping balance Social Security!
What insanity!
And on and on, with Illinois Republicans and conservatives running away from the issue, like so many frightened dogs, with their tails between their legs.
And now we see illegal aliens heavily populating Illinois jails, female American joggers getting raped, and massive education and social service costs, from the illegal alien influx.
The Democrats cheered this all along, in the name of “diversity”.
And the Republicans and conservatives, were either tacit supporters – or simply useful idiots.
Sick!
And this was all predicted back in 1994
Too many of today’s so-called “Republicans” are merely gutless bastards who ran for office rather than to find and hold steady, REAL, jobs.
They sold out any principles they may have had to keep their elected posts at all costs.
They also sold out their voters in the process.