A Texas sheriff’s deputy has been accused of sexually assaults a 4-year-old girl and threatening to deport her undocumented mother if she reported it.

Jose Nunez, a 10-year Bexar County Sheriff’s Office veteran who served as a detention officer, has been charged with super aggravated sexual assault of a child, Sheriff Javier Salazar said Sunday at a news conference.

“The details of the case are, quite frankly, heartbreaking, disturbing, disgusting and infuriating all at the same time,” Salazar said.

The child, a female relative of Nunez, cried out for help to her mother on Saturday, officials said. The mother took the child to a local fire station to file a report. Nunez, 47, is accused of touching the girl’s genital area, causing pain and minor injury, over a period of at least several months and possibly years, according to officials.

He told the girl’s mother, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, that he would have her deported if she spoke up about the molestation, authorities said.

“That’s always a concern in the undocumented community,” Salazar said. “We are filling out paperwork with this witness in question to make sure that she is given protected status pending the outcome of this case. It’s just important that [undocumented immigrants] feel comfortable enough to give us a call and report the crime.”

Authorities said they suspect Nunez may have had inappropriate contact with other children and encouraged anyone with information to contact the sheriff’s office. Nunez has been placed on administrative leave while the sheriff’s office conducts an internal investigation. He faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison if convicted.

“When one person or persons individually demonstrate, as has happened in this case, that they’re not worthy to be a part of this agency, then we’re going to, quite frankly, get them out of here,” Salazar said. “We’re going to cut them out like cancer.”

Child Trafficking Feared as DHS Can’t Say Where Immigrant Girls are Being Held

As the debate swarms over illegal immigration, Americans on both the left and the right are at each other’s throats pointing fingers over who’s responsible. In the meantime, what was a “conspiracy theory” a month ago is now being confirmed by the very people accused of keeping people in cages. One question, however, has just been raised which gives one a dark and sickly feeling inside when thinking about the potential answers to it: “Where are the girls?”

There is something particularly disturbing about the minuscule amount of footage recently released by HHS last week—it only shows boys, and only boys age 10 and up. Where are the girls? Where are the toddlers? Where are the babies?

Monday afternoon, during a White House press briefing, a reporter asked, “Why is the government only releasing images of the boys being held? Where are the girls & toddlers?”

Nielsen could not answer. When asked about the now infamous footage released by HHS that has been played all day on every major network, showing boys inside the Brownsville, Texas Walmart turned detention center, Nielsen claimed she never saw it.

When pressed on the issue, Nielsen then deflected the reporter claiming that she will “look into that.”

Since the question of “where are the girls?” began to gain traction, a firestorm has erupted on social media of people fearing the worst. Many people are claiming that they are being trafficked or abused.  That would certainly seem to be the case especially since the sheriff’s deputy was just charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old child and threatening her undocumented mother into staying silent.

These children are being used as pawns in a political game as rivals bicker over how to handle them while ignoring real factors that would curb this massive immigration problem.

Sources: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/texas-cop-molested-girl-deport-mother_us_5b279762e4b0f9178a9f0e72

https://www.activistpost.com/2018/06/where-are-the-girls-child-trafficking-feared-as-dhs-cant-say-where-immigrant-girls-are-being-held.html