WATCH: The mother of the Ohio 10/y rape victim tells Telemundo's @MariaVargasPion that the child "is fine", and "everything they say about (Gerson Flores) is a lie."
This portion of a broader interview sheds significant light on the familial dynamics of this case, and further vindicates all skepticism over how the story broke and was handled. We don't even get to this point without the critical work of @MeganFoxWriter and so many others.
This appears to confirm my thesis of a domestic situation wherein the confessed rapist is also the paramour of the victim's mother (other familial relation is possible but less likely). Unfortunately, I saw many such cases while working as a court interpreter.
The mother's distressed defense of the rapist suggests that
a: She is also here illegally and fears deportation
b: The defendant is the family's sole source of income
c: There is a likelihood of other children in the home
d: Mom is exposed to removal of the children under dependency proceedings (failure to protect). Has there been such a filing yet and if not why not?
Other questions: what was the time gap between the initial reporting of the rape and the filing of criminal charges? Why did the referring abortion provider not report the rape to authorities? Was the child forced to live with her rapist in furtherance of an abortion narrative?
Was the child compelled to stay quiet until after news of the abortion was leaked to the media? If so, how so?
Was criminal reporting of the rape of a Latina girl suppressed or delayed in furtherance of a political agenda?
These questions need to be answered ASAP.
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Some were expecting the Hispanic shift to the GOP to stall after the 2020 presidential election. Trump hitting 38% of Hispanics nationally was seen as a reversion to historical average after Romney's disastrous 27% in 2012. But the opposite has happened.
Why was GOP support among Hispanics so low in the past? In large part, because the GOP relied on the representations of left-wing groups (such as the National Council of La Raza) that immigration is the paramount issue for the recently-created Latino identity.
Fake News de @ElNuevoDia: El enmarque de este fallo del Supremo es perverso, ya que no se trata de "denegar la libertad de voto", sino de impedir que se trastoque el proceso constitucional del Colegio Electoral. bit.ly/31QzccY
En elecciones presidenciales, el voto por un candidato(a) presidencial significa un voto por la plancha de electores que acuden al Colegio Electoral. Esa plancha de electores está obligada a votar por quien gane el voto popular en su estado.
Lo que el fallo de hoy faculta es que los estados sancionen a quienes violan su compromiso como electores.
A quick #rickyrenuncia take before the prerecorded message drops:
Rosselló *should’ve* resigned immediately after publication of the chat portion where he maligned Viverito, never mind the full chat.
By firing SecState Rivera Marín and not immediately nominating a consensus successor, Rosselló pulled the pin on everything that ensued thereafter: the disruptions to tourism, the protests, the loss of credibility in D.C.- everything. 100% on him.