As a boat of illegal immigrants was sinking overnight on June 16-17, one man raped and strangled a 16-year-old girl, according to a new report that emerged even as some voices warn that a culture of sexual violence against women is being brought into America.
The report in the U.K.’s Daily Mail, citing and translating Italian news site AGI, said the victim and her accused attacker were both Iraqis being trafficked to Europe.
In a statement, police said the drifting boat heading from Turkey to Italy that later sank was about 120 miles off the coast of Italy when the 27-year-old suspect “vented his aggression on a 16-year-old Iraqi girl, the daughter of another survivor, leading to her death by suffocation.”
Per the Daily Mail, the alleged attacker saw his wife and daughter drown in the perilous trip. That incident enraged the man, who “vented” by allegedly raping and choking the teenage girl.
The victim’s mother survived, leading her to accuse the man of attacking his daughter. He has since been charged and jailed in an Italian prison.
Although the incident took place in the Mediterranean Sea, the problem is universal, as former New York lieutenant governor Betsy McCaughey wrote in an Op-Ed in the New York Post.
“Do you think the rapes stop when illegal immigrants cross into the United States? No. Now women are being victimized by migrants, bringing ‘femicide’ to your neighborhood,” she wrote.
“Where are the women’s rights groups? Silent. They couldn’t care less. It’s politically incorrect to criticize Latin America’s tolerance for violence against females,” she wrote.
An illegal immigrant has been arrested in New York and charged for the rape of a 15-year-old girl.
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Citing various sources, McCaughey called sexual violence against women “rampant,” and “soaring.”
“Leftists deny the problem.They’re horrified that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein raped women on a casting couch, but they’re willfully blind when Latin American illegals commit rape,” she wrote.
“Leftists object to the word ‘illegal’ — preferring the term ‘undocumented’ instead. But let’s not mince words: Some are rapists and killers. Monsters. Close the border to stop the femicidal madness,” she wrote.
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One expert said illegal immigrants bring their values, or lack of them, with them.
“I don’t think that people who rape later in life, that it’s their first time,” Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said, according to The Washington Times.
“They probably did it where they’re coming from — maybe they served time in the country they’re coming from. It’s really a public safety vetting matter,” he said.
Bensman said blocking immigrants who pose a risk would require the United States to “do what normal countries do.”
He said that “100 percent of every murder, rape, molestation, child molestation, robbery, whatever it is … that illegals commit, were all unnecessary and preventable through vetting, detention and deportation.”
