An illegal immigrant who was previously deported is accused of abusing and chaining up children in a Virginia home, according to ICE.
According to ICE, Franklin Viera-Guevara is a 29-year-old Salvadoran national who is in the country unlawfully.
The boyfriend of a Virginia mother who was arrested after her two young sons were found chained to a post by their ankles is an undocumented immigrant.
ICE confirmed to Planet Chronicle' Bill Melugin that one of the suspects charged in the Fairfax County, Virginia, child abuse case is a Salvadoran illegal immigrant who was previously deported in 2019 but reentered the country as a gotaway at an unknown time and location.
An unlawfully present 29-year-old Salvadoran national named Franklin Arquimedes Viera-Guevara was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol on Nov. 1, 2018, after entering the United States illegally near McAllen, Texas, according to ICE.
On February 1, 2019, Viera-Guevara was removed from the United States to El Salvador after being processed for expedited removal by the agency.
Viera-Guevara was found to have unlawfully reentered the United States without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by a U.S. immigration official.
On August 15, Fairfax County Police were called to an apartment in Groveton, Virginia, due to a report of suspected child neglect.
According to court documents, one of the boys used his roommate's cellphone to take a picture of his chained ankle and sent it to their sister, who called 911.
According to a criminal complaint, Fox 5 DC reported that officers heard chains rattling inside when they knocked on the door. Upon opening the door, the officers observed a chain wrapped around a post next to a cot, and two boys, who are brothers, ages 7 and 9, were chained up at their ankles.
On two counts of child neglect, child cruelty, and abduction, Wendi Del Cid Rodriguez, 46, and Viera-Guevara were both arrested. Additionally, ERO Washington, D.C., filed an immigration detainer against Guevara with the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center later that day.
Rodriguez and Viera-Guevara were accused of chaining the boys at their ankles for short periods of time to scare them, but a roommate claimed that the boys were left unsupervised and restrained when the suspects were not home.
Planet Chronicle Digital's Landon Mion contributed to this report.
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