REPORT: LIGHT SENTENCES

Shocking Report on Illegal-Immigrant Child Sex Crimes in Baltimore County, Md.

Disparities in prevalence and in sentencing

Buried under last week's full-press coverage of the Republican National Convention was a report from FOX45, the local Baltimore Fox affiliate, headlined “Baltimore County judges often give light sentences to illegal immigrant sex offenders”. The two key takeaways from that report are: (1) a disproportionate number of defendants charged with child-sex offenses in the Maryland suburb are “illegal immigrants from Central American countries”; and (2) judges there are issuing them ridiculously light sentences. Still, the report raises more questions than answers.

“Nearly 10%” of Child Sex Cases Involved Illegal Immigrants from Central America. With respect to the initial issue, the second paragraph of that article explains:

Public records show that Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger’s office filed 99 child sex crime cases between January 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024. Nearly 10% of the child sex cases in Baltimore County, involving nine defendants over a 17-month period, involved illegal immigrants from Central American countries.

I’m very familiar with Baltimore County, having been born there and having worked in the INS Baltimore office. It’s not exactly a popular destination for illegal aliens from Central America.

According to the Census Bureau, just 7.2 percent of the county’s population of nearly 855,000 people are “Latino or Hispanic”, FINISH READING HERE

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