Thread: ID: Local 10-Year-Old Gives Birth to Baby Girl

The use of "illegal immigrant" in Idaho rapist story creates false connection
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Fri, 05/09/2008 - 02:24 — Marissa Treviño
An appalling story out of St. Anthony, Idaho speeded across the Internet this morning. According to Idaho Falls CBS affiliate, KIDK, a 10-year-old girl gave birth to a 6 lb. baby girl as a result of being raped.



The news story on the KIDK site read in part:

…That person is this man, 37-year old Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez. Juarez is actually an illegal immigrant, and is now behind bars in the Fremont County Jail on other rape charges.

Since we broke this story exclusively yesterday, we've been checking with sources throughout the North Valley for more information.

The criminal complaint against Gutierrez-Juarez says the rape of the 10-year old happened between November and January. As we told you last night the girl gave birth at Madison Memorial this weekend and both mother and child are doing well.

If convicted the illegal immigrant could face life in prison, a $50,000 fine ,or both. Whether he ever serves anytime behind bars will be up to the judge who if he places him on probation, could deport him.



From the way this story reads, "If convicted the illegal immigrant could face life in prison," dehumanizes not just the intended target, the rapist, but ALL undocumented immigrants. Also, it makes it sound that this was a stranger-on-stranger crime.

It wasn't.

The rapist was married to the girl's mother. Latina Lista has yet to verify if the rapist was the child's father.

At any rate, it should go without saying that not all undocumented immigrants are rapists but this article definitely plants the connection between the two terms.

A rapist is a rapist regardless if he's an undocumented immigrant, a church pastor, a police officer, a teacher, etc. In fact, in most articles, the rapist is identified by his/her name and not by an identifier of their legal or immigration status.

By repeatedly referring to this rapist as the "illegal immigrant," this media story does a disservice to the local community and popular perception of all undocumented immigrant men who are Latino.

To their credit, in subsequent reports, KIDK refrained from identifying Gutierrez-Juarez only as an "illegal immigrant" and used his last name when referring to him. Unfortunately, not all news outlets are doing this.

Yet, the story here is not just that this sick individual committed this horrendous crime but that nobody found out about it nor did anything until this child gave birth.

However, we're discovering that there is much more to the story.

According to various news reports, the girl's pregnancy was not reported until the end of April when she went to the hospital to be seen. Ultimately, she delivered the baby by Cesarean.

However, a credible source told Latina Lista that it wasn't her mother who took her to the hospital but someone from her school — hospital officials called the police. That nugget of information opens the door to a host of questions.
If the girl was still attending school, surely someone should have seen that she was pregnant. That she was still living in the same home with the guy, means that the mother is either complicit in the rape and should be arrested as well for endangering her daughter or a victim of abuse herself.

Police report that they don't have any prior complaints on the 37-year-old rapist which means that he and the girl and the mother, and any other possible children in the family, went about their business as usual for all the world to see.

So why didn't anyone see anything or say anything?

An interesting theory offered by our source says that for one thing, the privacy and confidentiality rules regarding schools and hospitals are strictly enforced. Our source tells us that the public schools in the area, in over 10 years, have not shared any news with local media.

Another theory is that the community where the girl lives is "close knit." Evidently, there is a high Mormon population in the state and according to the source, some communities just take care of one another.

Does that mean they condone underage sex, a la the polygamist sect that was recently raided in Central Texas?

No one knows for sure the details until a hearing next week when some things should be made public.

But one thing is certain — the rape of a child by anyone should not be condoned nor kept silent due to confidentiality laws or religious practices.

The emotional and physical well-being of children should be the priority of every community.

And when someone is proved to be a rapist, they should be identified as such but the implication, intentional or not, should not be made that others of their group are the same as that one sick person.
http://www.politicsincolor.com/blogs/ma ... ction.html

And when someone is proved to be a rapist, they should be identified as such but the implication, intentional or not, should not be made that others of their group are the same as that one sick person

Nobody is calling all foreign nationals rapists, but when we see so many of these crimes committed against children by illegal aliens from third world countries, it does makes one wonder about the culture they come from. If these people applied the legal way and were screened before they were allowed to come here, we could possibly weed out the bad apples. Americans have the right to know if someone is in this country illegally or not. According to this writer then, if children are being sexually exploited by a religious cult like we've seen in the news lately, we shouldn't be able to mention the religion they practice, either. Whenever someone tries to shut up the media, they usually have something to hide, like the rise in the numbers of these crimes against children that we have been seeing for the past few years. Well, they're not going to shut me up.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-114763.html

and now this 12 year old in CALI

I posted this earlier today, where did that posting go?

Originally Posted by Ex_OC

THIS HAPPENED IN MY STATE????? Arrrggggh!!! And we're going to have a Mexican consulate here????? More of this trash is gonna move to my state!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Ex-OC, this is why I tell people who say they don't care about CA anymore or that they wish we'd fall into the ocean- that they need to pay close attn to what happens here. What happens in CA will soon be in thier backyard if they don't take action NOW. Now I see that is is in ID...one of the places a lot of the Californians have run to aka "white flight" state.

It's almost like, "you can run, but you cannot hide", they WILL be in your town soon! Illegal immigration is like a thick cancer spreading across the country!!!!!!!! There is NO good thing that comes of it.

This is beyond disgusting!

Thanks james for the link. I now have three faxes to send to my congressman, and senators, and Pelosi, and all the co-sponsors of the save act that won't sign the Discharge Petition.

This is just sickening and terribly sad. We have a 10 year old daughter (of course she is still physically inmature, not yet reached puberty) and cannot imagine this of her age.

We cannot hardly fathom the mental damage that all of this has done to this girl (please, oh please tell us that the sheriffs office will forget to seperate this "man" from the general population, and that someone will accidentally let out the truth about him in jail.....).

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http://www.alipac.us/article-3169--0-0.html

The rapist was married to the girl's mother. Latina Lista has yet to verify if the rapist was the child's father.

Well, there ya go!! If this is true, no wonder the mother didn't do anything! And if this were true, she can kiss her daughter Adios coz CPS is for-sure gonna take that child away. Hope the mom gets deported too!!!

But good point about the school not saying anything. Maybe the mom kept the girl home from school?

Originally Posted by SicNTiredInSoCal

Originally Posted by Ex_OC

THIS HAPPENED IN MY STATE????? Arrrggggh!!! And we're going to have a Mexican consulate here????? More of this trash is gonna move to my state!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Ex-OC, this is why I tell people who say they don't care about CA anymore or that they wish we'd fall into the ocean- that they need to pay close attn to what happens here. What happens in CA will soon be in thier backyard if they don't take action NOW. Now I see that is is in ID...one of the places a lot of the Californians have run to aka "white flight" state.

It's almost like, "you can run, but you cannot hide", they WILL be in your town soon! Illegal immigration is like a thick cancer spreading across the country!!!!!!!! There is NO good thing that comes of it.

This is beyond disgusting!

Sic, you are sooo correct. It's like now we have to look for a whole other COUNTRY to move to. Unfortunately, most of them are infested with jihadists. Sheesh! I CAN'T WAIT TO DIE!!! That seems to be my only recourse out of this now. Hahhahha. Sigh.