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[Norton]

Court sentences child rapist to 20 years

By Brad Zinn/staff
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STAUNTON -- Before being sentenced to 20 years in prison, convicted rapist Bonifacio Corona Gumesindo asked the court if he could return home instead.

"I would like to go back to Mexico," he said Thursday through an interpreter in the Augusta County Circuit Court.

Mexico, it appears, will have to wait.

A jury took less than 30 minutes to convict Gumesindo, 22, of raping an 8-year-old Brands Flat girl the night of May 5 while her baby-sitter watched television in another room. Gumesindo was described as an acquaintance of the victim's family.

Thursday, Gumesindo, represented by Attorney Tate Love, denied raping the girl, but testimony revealed the child's rectum was torn in the attack. The girl's mother, working the night of the rape, called police after discovering blood in five pairs of the child's underwear the next morning.

Gumesindo denied raping the girl and said he was in the child's bedroom with her 10-year-old sister as they jumped on a bed. "I didn't touch her," he said. However, DNA belonging to the 8-year-old was found in his underwear.

After his conviction and sentence, Gumesindo's loud sobs reverberated throughout the courthouse.

The victim's baby-sitter, Henry Lee Hicks Jr., 20, was convicted of fondling the girl's 10-year-old sister in April after an investigation by the Augusta County Sheriff's Office into Gumesindo's sexual assault revealed wrongdoing on Hicks's behalf. He's serving a four-year prison term.

Testifying for the defense, Hicks said he was in the living room of the children's trailer, located in the Knox Mobile Home Park on U.S. 250 in Brands Flat, when the 10-year-old girl told him that Gumesindo was "on top of my sister." By his own account, he did nothing.

"Why would I want to believe a little 10-year-old girl?" he said under questioning by John Chilton Reed, an assistant Commonwealth's attorney for Augusta County. He also expressed doubt about the rape claims. "Why wasn't she screaming?"

Following Thursday's hearing, Reed, who asked the jury for a 40-year prison term, said the community can't rely on police and social services alone to stem the tide of sexual assaults against children. He stated that "our clergy and our leaders should start speaking out on the issues of child abuse."

In March, Gumesindo's brother, Lauro Corona Gumesindo, 31, was convicted on charges of attempted sodomy and attempted rape involving a 14-year-old girl. He was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison.

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Originally published Friday, October 24, 2003



STAUNTON -- Before being sentenced to 20 years in prison, convicted rapist Bonifacio Corona Gumesindo asked the court if he could return home instead.

OK....this is how our immigration policies are supposed to work in the minds of our population of "undocumented workers" . In their mind "I want to come here illegally, make a good American wage, send most of my money back to Mexico (tax free of course), but when I get convicted of a crime....just send me back home to Mexico and I promise (with sugar on top) to stay in Mexico and never come back to the US":banghead:

 

[Henry]

He should be allowed to return to Mexico...in a coffin. These are horrible crimes, as should be the punishment.

 

[Black92LX]

If i ran this place there would be 4 things punishable by death. in order of importance.

1. Treason against the U.S.
2. Unjustifiable killing of another person
3. Rape/Molestation
4. Pissing on the toilet seat.


This guy should fry and send his ashes back to mexico to send his little buddies a message.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Cheap labor is the most expensive of all.

 

[cracked butt]

Speaking of cheap labor did anyone hear of the INS raids on Walmart stores? They found illegal immigrants working in the stores. What did they do to the ilegals? told them to show up at a deportation hearing and let them go.

If the INS was doing its job in the first place, we wouldn't be having such problems.

 

[semf]

I would like to go back to Mexico," he said Thursday through an interpreter in the Augusta County Circuit Court.

Take him to the border, the most populated area, Walk him shackeled to within 10ft of the line put one in the back of his head, leave him to the buzzards as an example to others.

 

[Norton]

Maybe el presidente Fox will come to his rescue claiming the punishment levied on a sovereign citizen of Mexico is excessive.

 

[greyhound]

What did they do to the ilegals? told them to show up at a deportation hearing and let them go.

WHAT THE

 

[DigitalWarrior]

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Take him to the border, the most populated area, Walk him shackeled to within 10ft of the line put one in the back of his head, leave him to the buzzards as an example to others.

Actually you should make sure to shoot him in the side of the head, so that the bullet lands in US territory, otherwise you may inadvertantly start a war by attacking Mexico.

 

[longeyes]

Wouldn't it be great if there were more than one politician (Tancredo)
who had the stones to address this issue?

Expect it to get worse in '04. Votes need to be secured by the Casa
Blanca. You can assume an amnesty, by some other name, along with
more hand-outs of various kinds, including Social Security.

After all, Bush and Fox are Los Dos Amigos.

 

[Keith]

You will never end illegal immigration by targeting the illegals themselves. That's like trying to put out a forest fire with a water pistol.

If you want to end illegal immigration, you have to arrest, prosecute and imprison those who hire illegal workers. If the upper management of this Wal-Mart (mentioned above), were dragged out in cuffs and tossed in the slammer for about ten years - and we did that to every employer of illegals - the problem would cease, immediately!

No jobs; no reason to come here.

We don't need the army on the border. We don't need to spend billions on high-tech surveillance. We don't need to spend billions to round them up and go the through the INS rigamarole associated with deportation. Just arrest the employers and the illegals will go home of their own accord.

Keith

 

[obiwan1]

What it would take is a whole lot of people screaming at congress to enforce the current laws. They are good laws, but congresscritters frequently get involved when ILLEGAL constituents (whatever that is) make more noise than us. There is a lot of pressure to ignore certain provisions of the law. Right now they feel that there is more sentiment tward ignoring the laws than to strict enforcement.
So.........................................

QUIT BITCHIN' AND CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[romulus]

No jobs; no reason to come here.

How about a disgustingly maladminestered government largesse in entitlements and benefits, issued without the most basic prerequisite, that of CITIZENSHIP?

Seems to be reason enough for a great many of the current crop of immigrants.

 

[DigitalWarrior]

Like the War on Some Drugs

We can
1. Spend huge amounts of money to try to prevent a product that Americans want (cheap labor/low prices, drugs) from reaching the market.

2. Accept that the market always wins, and allow them over and tax the crap out of them.

 

[Keith]

How about a disgustingly maladminestered government largesse in entitlements and benefits, issued without the most basic prerequisite, that of CITIZENSHIP?

That's a problem in itself, but it's clear that the vast majority come here for work. If they can get food stamps or something on the side, they'll take them. If they can bring their older non-working relatives or kids and get them enrolled in programs, they'll do that too.

But the core of the problem is jobs - we have them and they want them. Without those jobs, the flood slows to a trickle, and the border patrol CAN handle a trickle.

This means we'll have to pay more for many goods and services because employers will have to offer better wages. That's a good trade as far as I'm concerned since we pay for it either way with the crime, social problems and governmental costs.

Here's an analogy for you. What if you prohibited fishing in your private lake, but the police told you that you could not arrest or deter any fishermen. You could only seize and release any fish they caught while the fisherman was allowed to re-bait and continue his activity? Would that make sense?
Employers "bait" these illegals up here and face no consequences. The illegals (the fish) are taken and returned to the border (the lake).

It's stupid system and when people wake up and realize that there is a cheap and instant solution, the problem will be solved.

Keith

 

[Cal4D4]

I'm with Keith about jobs being the lure. Illegal alien work force suits a contractor because price is right and no insurance or benefits are involved. You can't really escape using the illegals unless you do a background check of all workers a subcontractor brings to your place of business. Some county projects and a few defense contractors seem to screen pretty well, but every year there is shock and outrage by the press when it is discovered that illegals are in some of our most secure spots. Fake documentation is commonplace.

 

[Sergeant Bob]

Walmart has 1.1 MILLION employees, and the INS could only come up with 245 illegals (most of whom were employed by sub-contractors, six at our local Wally World)?
I smell fish (of the herring family). Looks like another high profile target (not unlike the Martha Stewart thing with the SEC) so the government can show us how hard they're working to stem the flow of illegals.

 

[Keith]

Looks like another high profile target (not unlike the Martha Stewart thing with the SEC) so the government can show us how hard they're working to stem the flow of illegals

Umm, you DID notice that Martha Stewart was arrested for breaking the law? In this case, no Wal-Mart managers were arrested for breaking the law.
There's no similarity at all. The INS has never enforced the law against employers and they are still not enforcing the law.

It's just a high profile signal to business - lure up all the illegals you want because there will be no consequences.

Keith

 

[Sergeant Bob]

Umm, you DID notice that Martha Stewart was arrested for breaking the law?

Umm, you DID notice I said nothing about arrests didn't you?
I was simply alluding to the fact the government likes high profile cases because they attract alot of attention and emotion. The fact is, Martha Stewart and 245 contract employees out of one million are very small fish in a very large pond.
I think you got my point anyway, or are you arguing just for the sake of arguement?

The INS has never enforced the law against employers and they are still not enforcing the law.

Never? Nuff said.

 

[Keith]

No, I'm afraid I don't get your point. The government arrests and prosecutes securites fraud cases every day of the week. The Martha Stewart case is "high profile" because she is a "high profile" person. You just don't hear about all the other nameless stock traders, businessmen and accountants who also get slammed.

With illegal immigrant hiring, nobody gets arrested - ever! And nobody even seems to question this...

And these illegals are in every facet of business, including journalism (which explains why we never hear about it). Somebody does all the grunt work at the newspaper distribution plants, and somebody cleans the toilets and sweeps up in all those offices, and somebody cooks and serves the food in the cafeterias at FOX, CNN and the New York Times...

And when those editors go home, they have a Salvadoran maid and a Mexican kid to mow the lawn and trim the Azalea's.

It's not in their interest pay enough to get legal employees. And it's not in their interest to advocate getting arrested for their own hiring practices.

And it doesn't matter because the sheeple can't figure it out for themselves. They will continue to write those blistering opinion columns about how we should move the military to the border and all the other expensive and useless nonsense. And the sheeple will lick it up and gripe about those damned illegals and wonder why something isn't done about it...


Keith

 

[MicroBalrog]

Actually, I think the best punishment is to put his pic in all major papers and TV. Then set him free. In Texas.

 

[glocksman]

The BICS could net more illegals in a single raid on an IBP meatpacking plant than they did in this deal with Walmart.

Is it just me, or is it just plain hypocritical to go after 300 Ukrainians while ignoring the 7 million hispanic illegals?

Oh, that's right. The Ukrainians aren't a nationwide voting bloc that both parties are chasing after.

My fault. I actually expected the USG to uniformly enforce the immigration laws.

I should have known better.

 

[greyhound]

The Ukranians aren't a nationwide voting bloc that both parties are chasing after.

Bingo!:banghead:

 

[longeyes]

The illegal alien problem could, for now, be addressed at the
employer and public benefits level.

Ultimately, though, this remains a U.S.-Mexico macro problem. The
Mexican state, and its allies in the Mexican media and academic
establishment, are behind the emigrant movement. At some point
we may have to reach across the border, especially if there is an
adverse change of government there.

Along those lines, read this from Newsmax:

Next for Castro's Axis: Mexico

A lot of Americans don't like Mexican President Vicente Fox, what with
his attempts to foist even
more illegal aliens on us. But Mexico (and the U.S.) could do a lot,
lot worse. And probably will.

Hardly anyone is paying attention to that nation's rising political
star and likely next president,
radical left-wing Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

His "approval ratings have steadily climbed to a remarkable 88%, and a
recent poll put him as the
clear front-runner for the 2006 presidential race. He is riding so
high that last week he boasted he
was 'indestructible,' prompting a leading radio station to play the
'Superman' theme any time the
mayor's name is mentioned," the Wall Street Journal reported recently.

Critics liken him to an ally of Fidel Castro, embattled Venezuelan
leader Hugo Chavez. Supporters
liken him to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ... who
also happens to be an ally of
Castro.

NewsMax has reported extensively about the rise of socialism in Latin
America. Just last week,
left-wing activists toppled Bolivia's pro-U.S. leader. If Mexico
falls, the effects on the United States
would be catastrophic.

 

[Hot brass]

No jobs; no reason to come here.



In my blind eyes, there are many reasons for illegals to come to the USA.
Work, not many jobs in Mexico.
Even though US corporations send factories across our borders the goods wind up back here in the good ol`e USA. Every job sent away from here is putting an American out of work. Buy American.


Health care. Pregnant? Cross the border and the US tax payer will pick up the bill. This bill includes, Dr. fees, how many Dr.`s? for one birth? Nurses wages, helpers, anistisiologist(sp), bed, linens, meds, electricity, water, someone has to pay for all this, there is probly a mortage on the building, got to pay the rent(hospital). Now this child is now a US citizen, the parent can`t be sent back to Mexico. Now the child needs extras.

Money, welfare...no lets call it wic( women with infant children), how about child health services. (Tax payer funded)

The kid needs a home, low income housing( paid for by the US tax payers)

Dental, got to get the teeth right.

Food, the kid has to eat, food stamps. Oh the thought of such language. Lets give them ATM cards. After all they should not be looked down on. With food stamps people stare at the holder. There are other food freebies(wic) see above.

The mother has to continue to see the Dr. The baby has to see one too!

More babies, more tax payer money to the rescue.

The kid has to go to school( Tax payer funded)


Here in California, the good ol`e pissonutisions have made it so that ILLEGALS can go to State college, at a cheeper rate of pay than what the state tax payers will pay for their kid. ( Guess who pays for this)

The bum we just kicked out of office signed a bill to allow ILLEGALS to go to State College for FREE!!!

I will stop now, I am getting angry-er



On the subject matter, if the US wanted to do something about ILLEGALS, pick them up and send them to back MEXICO. Start in CALIFORNIA, and work east.

BLC, borders, language,culture. USA