Man charged in abuse of toddler
Erik Guevara
Police have charged a man with beating and duct taping a 3-year-old girl at his home outside Manassas.
Officers were called to the house in the 11200 block of Golden Leaf Drive on Tuesday night, where they found a girl who had been hit and bound in duct tape, Prince William County police spokeswoman Sharon Richardson said. The girl is not related to the suspect, police said.
An acquaintance of the man notified police of the alleged abuse.
Erik Guevara, 35, was charged with two counts of felony child abuse and two counts of domestic assault and battery, police said. Guevara, an illegal immigrant, is an acquaintance of the victim. It was not clear why the girl was at his home.
He was held on a $100,000 bond, partially because Guevara is in the country illegally, said Richardson.
Neighbors who live near the home said the Woodburn apartment complex is full of children.
“If there is a child predator in the neighborhood, this is probably where they would be,” said Justin Maines, who lives across the street from where the alleged abuse took place.
Maines said he has lived in his home for nearly a year.
He said he often sees police in the area during the winter, and saw even more in the neighborhood last summer.
Child abuse is reported every 10 seconds in the U.S., according to ChildHelp, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect.
According to the organization at least four children die each day in the U.S. because of abuse or neglect.
Guevara will appear in court on Feb. 23.
Staff writer Uriah A. Kiser can be reached at 703-878-8065.
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I pray someone hits him with a car and kills him…and I hope he dies a slow and very painful death!
How anyone could harm a child is beyond me. What is wrong with our country??? How can we allow this stuff to keep happening? When will we say enough’s enough and do something about it?
Posted by ( Simon.Stone ) on January 23, 2009 at 9:16 am
How about those rapists over in Monclair? Maybe they were illegals also.
Maybe you friends over on anti will know the answer!
simon.stone,
Posted by ( Simon.Stone ) on January 23, 2009 at 9:16
How about those rapists over in Monclair? Maybe they were illegals also.
What happened to NO BAIL for illegals? The Adult Detention Center has some explaining to do!!!!!!!!!!!
There are so many laws to help prevent these crimes from happening. Some needs to get some b*lls and enforce them!
I am sickened when I hear another illegal has hurt/killed someone again.
But Deane can only talk about Hispanics being victims, not the perpetrators of crimes! I am sooooooooo angry that a child was hurt and like allisonkipp stated, 100% preventable!
I just saw that. This morning at the top of the article they actually said the words “illegal alien” then about 30 minutes to 1 hour later (after I made my post) they deleted it and changed the article. I was just trying to point out the fact that MJM slipped up and actually said what everyone else calls them, exactly what they are “illegal aliens”. We have been having a rash of violent and sick illegal alien crime here lately and what’s almost as disgusting as the crimes themselves is the fact that people honestly think these “people” have any more rights than to be thrown back over the border from where they came. After of course a lengthly jail sentence is served.
Go home illegals, when are you going to get the point that you are not wanted here?
Ching - it still mentions his illegal status:
Erik Guevara, 35, was charged with two counts of felony child abuse and two counts of domestic assault and battery, police said. Guevara, an illegal immigrant, is an acquaintance of the victim. It was not clear why the girl was at his home.
folks, just to clarify. I made the intitial post on this thread. the story when first issued said this person was an “illegal alien”. However when I mentioned it in my post, the potomac news deleted that part of the story as well as my post. Talk about standing by what you wrote. They just erased the evidence. i repeat, they called this person an “illegal alien” now there is no mention of his status.
That’s OK. They can keep him in the country by asking for his passpor… oh, wait.
The title should be “Illegal Alien Charged in Abuse of Toddler”
Yet another crime against a child that was 100% preventable. If the government actually enforced immigration laws, this would never have happened.
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