Federal immigration law enforcement officials arrested and issued a detainer for an illegal immigrant in South Carolina on Tuesday after a minor he allegedly sexually assaulted was found giving birth in a parking lot.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials lodged a detainer for 43-year-old Mexican national Luis Armando Argueta Montejo after a female minor, reported to be between the ages of 11 and 14, was discovered in labor in the parking lot outside a hospital, according to a press release. Montejo was charged with incest and three counts of criminal sexual conduct with a child, the release stated.
The minor was accompanied by an unidentified female adult at the time, People Magazine reported.
“This sicko should NEVER have been in our country to prey on children in the first place,” acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated in the release. “He now faces charges for incest and multiple child sex crimes. Prior to these horrific crimes, this illegal alien lacked a criminal record in the U.S.”
Montejo reportedly told ICE officials that he entered the country in 2006 and that he had no previous criminal record.
