Inside ICE: Volume 2, Issue 5

ICE Deports Salvadoran Man Who Raped, Impregnated 12-Year-Old

OMAHA, Neb. — ICE detention and removal officers deported a man to El Salvador February who had been convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl. The assault resulted in the girl becoming pregnant.

Eligio Hernandez-Zepeda, 40, of El Salvador, illegally entered the United States in 1990. He was arrested for the crime in Schuyler, Neb., in July 1997 and was convicted in April 1998 of first-degree sexual assault. He was sentenced to a term of not less than 10 years and not more than 15 years.

“Targeting people like Hernandez-Zepeda is a top priority for us,” said Scott Baniecke, St. Paul Field Office Director of the ICE Office of Detention and Removal Operations. “Those who victimize the most vulnerable among us will be sought out, apprehended and removed.”

ICE special agents encountered Hernandez-Zepeda while he was serving his sentence for the crime and placed a “detainer” on him, so that ICE was notified and took custody of him Jan. 12 upon his release from prison. In an effort to ensure public safety, ICE conducts checks of jails and prisons nationwide to locate, identify and then deport criminal aliens.

During fiscal year 2004, which ended Sept. 30, ICE detention and removal agents removed 3,152 criminal aliens and status violators from a five-state area that includes Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Of that number, 1,488 were classified as criminal aliens for having been convicted of such crimes as drug offenses, assault and battery, armed robbery, rape and fraud.

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