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    Frierson man admits to molesting another child

    http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbc ... 00307/1062

    Frierson man admits to molesting another childJanuary 30, 2007

    By Vickie Welborn
    vwelborn@gannett.com



    MANSFIELD — A Frierson man who admitted Friday to having sex with a 7-year-old girl also has confessed to molesting another child while he lived in Arkansas, DeSoto authorities said Monday. That information will be turned over to Arkansas authorities this week.

    And DeSoto authorities may have turned up information on yet another child allegedly molested by another man with connections to Bartolo Bernal's wife's family, sheriff's Cpl. Adam Ewing said.

    "The mother has identified other family members in Arkansas as molesting members of the family," Ewing said of Bartolo Bernal's wife, Miranda Bernal, also of Frierson.

    Bartolo Bernal, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was booked into DeSoto Detention Center on Friday on multiple counts of aggravated incest.

    Miranda Bernal was charged with accessory after the fact to aggravated incest. She is alleged to have known about the sexual assault of the 7-year-old for at least six months but did not report it until Thursday.

    Monday morning, bond was set at $150,000 for Bartolo Bernal and $50,000 for Miranda Bernal. They remained in custody late Monday afternoon.

    The 7-year-old girl and one of her five siblings, who range in age from 2 to 12, were examined by a medical doctor Monday, Ewing said. He was still waiting for the outcome of the tests Monday afternoon; however, Ewing believes only the 7-year-old was sexually assaulted.

    All of the children are in state custody. Bartolo Bernal does not have family in the area. Miranda Bernal has a mother living in a low-income apartment in Frierson.

    Bartolo Bernal, a sheet metal contractor, and Miranda Bernal, who is unemployed, have lived in DeSoto Parish for about 16 months. They originally are from Hot Springs, Ark.

    The Bernals and their children moved from Arkansas to a Shreveport mobile home park after Bartolo Bernal allegedly molested a young girl, according to a statement Miranda Bernal gave investigators Friday. Their home in the 800 block of Old Church Road in the Frierson area in northeast DeSoto is in a remote area where oil and gas wells outnumber homes.

    DeSoto authorities have six complaints on file since January 2006 involving the Bernals, Ewing said. Most involve disturbances between the couple, who have been married for about 7½ years. Bartolo Bernal was charged a year ago with aggravated assault for one of those disturbances. The disposition of that case was unknown Monday.

    Bartolo Bernal is not wanted by other law enforcement agencies. He has admitted to DeSoto investigators that he has been in the U.S. illegally the past 12 years.

    Ewing and sheriff's Sgt. Brett Cooper learned Friday during their interview of Bartolo Bernal that he attempted to report himself last year. Ewing confirmed a call from Bartolo Bernal on June 25 in which he asked a deputy to come to his residence "because he needed to confess something. He didn't say what."

    When deputies arrived, Miranda Bernal intervened and turned deputies away, saying the call had been made by mistake.

    Ewing said there have been many "inconsistencies" in Miranda Bernal's conversations with authorities. She first said she and Bartolo Bernal were separated. She also denied that Bartolo Bernal had been alone with the children since she learned of the sexual abuse.

    "But none of that was true. She tells a different story every time," Ewing said.

    Miranda Bernal reportedly turned in her husband Thursday because she was preparing to leave him, Ewing said. "It was tax time and she had been to town with him the day before to get their taxes done. I think she was going to get the money and then make him leave."
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    Deport family

    this is not the type of citizens we want in America. I am being to wonder if the typical mexican is a rapist, child abuser, drug smuggler, or murder. It appears that most of the illegal mexicans are one or the other.

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